Laura Hahn

Design

  • U.S. News & World Report Home Page

  • U.S. News & World Report

    UX design, visual design

    Redesign and rearchitecture for a news and rankings site with over a million daily visitors

    • New, cohesive aesthetic
    • Revised information architecture
    • Wiki of standardized styles

    visit live site »

  • BitchesWhoBrunch

  • Bitches Who Brunch

    UX design, visual design, development

    Redesign and rearchitecture of a popular DC brunch blog, using their existing branding

    • Revised information architecture
    • New features including a faceted search
    • Custom WordPress theme

    visit live site »

  • Healthy Workforce Advocacy Initiative

  • Healthy Workforce Advocacy Initiative (HWAI)

    Visual design

    Home page for a global workforce nonprofit using their existing branding

    visit live site »

  • The Bike House DC

  • The Bike House DC

    UX design, visual design, development

    Simple site for a local bike nonprofit using their existing branding

    visit live site »

  • Harrah's

  • Harrah’s Your Life

    UX design, visual design

    Healthy living microsite for employees of Harrah’s Hotels and Casinos using their existing logo

    see full mock »

Icons & Illustration

  • Brooklyn

  • Brooklyn

    Illustrations I did for fun after moving to Brooklyn — home to bridges, bikes, beer, bodegas, brownstones...

  • Best Funds Icons

  • Best Funds

    Icons for exchange traded fund types including municipal bonds, commodities, securities, and stocks

    see them in action »

  • U.S. News & World Report MyFit Infographic

  • U.S. News & World Report My Fit

    Infographic for marketing a college search tool to schools

  • U.S. News & World Report Best badge

  • U.S. News & World Report Best

    Badges for all of U.S. News’ rankings

  • Topic icons

  • U.S. News topics

    Proposed iPhone-app style icons representing the U.S. News topic sections

  • Education Icons

  • College Search

    Icons for college search and admissions

  • U.S. News & World Report Compass

  • U.S. News & World Report College Compass

    Brand for the education section’s premium paid membership

About

I’m a UX designer living in Washington, DC. I strive to create simple, functional, and pleasing user interfaces. When I’m not designing, you can find me riding my bike, cooking stuff, or looking at animated .gifs of cats.

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Laura Hahn

me@laurahahn.com

202.256.0815

Qualifications

  • Expertise in Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign
  • Strong understanding of front-end development and best practices in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and JQuery
  • Experience with Ruby on Rails, PHP, Python, and Flash
  • Ability to effectively plan user interfaces, and create wireframes and high-fidelity mocks
  • Ability to handle multiple projects and deadlines
  • Experience working with individual clients as well as project teams

Experience

LivingSocial

User Experience Architect

Washington, DC | January 2012 – present

Employing agile techniques to collaborate with product teams, wireframing and designing features, creating information architecture plans, working with usability testers, documenting styles and processes

U.S. News & World Report

User Experience Designer

Washington, DC | July 2009 – January 2012

Collaborating with developers, project managers, editors, producers and sales team members, brainstorming and wireframing user interfaces, developing a new cohesive design aesthetic for usnews.com and its various online products, designing logos and badges for use by U.S. News ranked hospitals and universities, writing comprehensive process and style documentation

Home Front Communications

Design Intern

Washington, DC | January 2009 – July 2009

Creating web graphics, ads and high-fidelity site designs, working with HTML, CSS and JavaScript, collaborating with developers, project managers and producers

Freelance

User Experience Designer, Visual Designer, Developer

July 2008 – present

Designing logos, websites, iPhone applications and print collateral for various clients including Communities for Quality Education, The Concord Coalition, Aon Consulting, and Montgomery County Public Schools

Education

Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Boston University (CDIA)

Certificate in Web and Graphic Design

Washington, DC | June 2008 – January 2009

Dickinson College

Bachelor of Arts in Art History — Departmental Honors, Magna Cum Laude

Carlisle, PA | August 2002 – May 2006

Get in touch

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