Hey, I’m Lauren!👋

Human-centered designer & creative problem solver

I’m currently a Senior UX Designer and Researcher at Procter & Gamble, where I create best-in-class digital experiences that support its global brand portfolio.

Digital Products I’ve Worked On

Labflow: Quick Grade Redesign

Catalyst Education
A screenshot of a digital product showing student's responses to a question next to a grading panel. The grading panel has an area for scoring and written feedback with a dropdown of saved comments for graders to use.

Enabling a grading experience for chemistry TAs that maximizes efficiency and consistency while minimizing context-switching.

Highlights:

  • Implemented a new discovery process to address timeline and budgetary needs and facilitate rapid iteration

  • Addressed basic usability concerns for a top grading feature while introducing new differentiators

  • Optimized the new experience for grading efficiency and consistency, helping Labflow win and retain users

Achieve: Course Setup North Star Vision

Macmillan Learning

Facilitating self-service course creation with the goal of reducing the time it takes for instructors to prepare for their term by 85%.

Highlights:

  • Tested 12 low-fidelity designs with 40+ instructors over 7 rounds

  • Leveraged institutional knowledge and existing research to understand instructor mental models

  • Collaborated with Product and Engineering on a comprehensive release roadmap and strategy

This work is still in development, and as a result is password protected. To learn more my impact on Achieve’s course creation initiative, please reach out for the password, or enter it below.

Books Alive! For Kids App MVP

Learning Through Art

Promoting literacy, social-emotional learning, and family connection through interactive reading experiences featuring Learning Through Art’s award-winning media.

Highlights:

  • Created an MVP that combined digital and hands-on activities for an immersive learning experience

  • Defined a design system that harmonized with existing visual language

  • 94% of children in beta testing met engagement markers

  • MVP helped client secure an additional $15,000 in funding for continued expansion and development

Beacon Financial Literacy App

B.F.A Senior Thesis | Miami University

Making finance understandable for emerging adults on their path to financial literacy.

Highlights:

  • Leveraged qualitative and quantitative research methods, including surveys, online ethnographic studies, and one-on-one interviews.

  • Created a prototype of an MVP representing key task flows based on research with emerging adults.

Graphic, Illustration, and other work

Ultimate Frisbee Disc and Jersey Art

Oshadega

In 2012, I started playing ultimate frisbee. In 2014, I designed my first disc for Youth Ultimate Cincinnati. In 2016, I responded to a Tournament Director’s Twitter call for a designer to create art for a frisbee tournament, and have been doing that on and off ever since.

Highlights:

  • Disc art for more than 20 college and club-level tournaments

  • Social and wayfinding graphics for the 2018 and 2022 World Ultimate Club Championships

  • 5 sold-out chicken-themed product lines