Mackenzie Child is an awesome designer, illustrator and creator of templates (mostly for Webflow). He has built his freelance business through creating various design assets, online courses, and side projects.
Mackenzie was always a design and side-projects enthusiast. Honing his web design skills during the 2013-2016 period while working in Precision Nutrition company, he then decided to move on by taking the role of a designer & illustrator in
Podia. Podia is the platform where creative people and entrepreneurs can sell their digital stuff like templates, eBooks, worksheets, as well as webinars and online courses.
This was an amazing experience for him, as he worked really hard on different side projects, such as
LOL Colors (a color palette for inspiration) for example.
Also, in 2017 Mackenzie released his UI/UX kit called
Blocks Wireframing Kit for Sketch. Later on, he also launched the
Wireframe & Userflow UI Kit.
It wasn't long before he started working with Webflow. Working with them has become very iconic because most of his products are now directly associated with this company. Mackenzie started releasing templates for Webflow, starting with a free product called
Mac, and then releasing the
Flowmingo course, where he gives lots of advices and explains in great detail all the nuances of creating projects on Webflow. Later, he released two commercial Webflow templates –
Links and
Telly. But the designer decided not to stop there either – he developed a utility framework for Webflow called
Hatch, that has 2,000 ready-to-use classes so that building the pages is a much faster process.
Throughout this period, Mackenzie did not leave social networks, building up an audience and sharing his illustrations and work process with people. Some products appeared precisely after interaction with subscribers. For example, 2019 was a pretty active year for him as he launched several products, such as
Happy Hues and
Colorables.
Burnout? We guess Mackenzie doesn't know such a word! :) He created two tutorial courses on Youtube –
No Code Membership Site and
Adobe Illustrator Essentials. He also launched another side cool project in 2021 –
Super Mega Pack, which is a powerful collection of everything you need to develop a Webflow site: color palettes, Google fonts, inspirational resources, courses from Webflow educational team, as well as different tutorials from the community.
What is especially captivating about Mackenzie is that despite his workload, he always does everything with a smile on his face, infecting other people with his enthusiasm. That is why on
Youtube he has more than 68,000+ people, and on
Instagram - almost 5,000+ followers. This young man deservedly occupies the 4th place on our list.