Laura is a

Product design leader who (still) believes in leading with empathy, working with humans (and agents) to deliver value through systems, tools, and processes for users, audiences, and businesses.

Currently

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

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

Work 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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