Laura is a

Product design leader who (still) believes in leading with empathy, working with humans (and agents) at the intersection of strategy, design systems, platform tools, and processes.

Currently

Defining Hearst Magazines’ end-to-end agentic design process: designers as builders, human review gates within agent loops, design constitution plus skills to power code-first prototyping and agent-enabled innovation.

With experience spanning

Strategic and hands-on design across audience-experiences, platforms, and goal-oriented tooling, from B2B banking systems to global editorial products.

Present

Hearst Magazines

VP Product Design, Hearst Magazines

Prior

Vox Media

Design Director
Principal Product Designer

Prior

Koxa B2B Banking

IC Product & UX Designer

Prior

The Wall Street Journal

Graphics Design Director
Product Design Director

Prior

Reuters Global Media

Product Design Director

Prior

CBS News

Associate Creative Director

Select work

Harper’s BazaarHearst
ELLE.comHearst
The VergeVox Media
Vox.comVox Media
PolygonVox Media
WSJ.comThe Wall Street Journal
Language, PleaseScaling advisor

Her work has been recognized by the Anthem Awards, Webby Awards nominations, Society for News Design, Data Journalism Awards, and Information is Beautiful. She has been a guest lecturer and critic with The New School Journalism+Design program, The Cooper Union, and Yale University.

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