Laura Hahn

- U.S. News & World Report
- designed a home page that promoted the organization's various topic sections and freshest editorial content
- see live site »

- U.S. News & World Report Education
- designed all of the user interfaces within the overall education, colleges, grad schools and online education sections
- see live site »

- U.S. News & World Report My Fit Application Infographic
- designed and created icons for a simple infographic to market a college selection application to schools
- see full infographic »

- Montgomery County Public Schools On the Move
- designed a microsite using Maryland's MCPS' existing branding for a healthy living competition sponsored by Kaiser Permanente

- The Bike House DC
- designed and developed a simple site for a local bike nonprofit using their existing branding
- see live site »

- Auldabes
- branded and designed the site for a facebook-based item-sharing application
- see full mock »

- Healthy Workforce Advocacy Initiative
- designed a home page for a global workforce nonprofit using their existing branding

- Pharma Rx
- designed a template site to be marketed to various pharmaceutical advocacy organizations

- Lou Stovall: Sea to Shining Sea
- designed a microsite promoting DC artist and printmaker Lou Stovall's Sea to Shining Sea print celebrating the inauguration of Barak Obama

- Ohio Education Opportunity Act
- designed and implemented a Flash slideshow for embedding on the organization's website
- see slideshow »

- DC Bike Polo
- designed a site for the local bike polo league using their existing branding

- GreenCert
- branded and designed a marketing page for one of EIM's analytics products
- see full mock »

- Harrah's Your Life
- designed a healthy living microsite for employees of Harrah's Hotels and Casinos
- see full mock »

- Best Fund Icons
- illustrated icons for fund types including municipal bonds, commodities, securities, and stocks

- Education Icons
- illustrated icons for various school search related tools

- Public Spaces
- illustrated sports arena and market stills for a video

- Attractions icons
- illustrated icons representing various attraction types

- U.S. News & World Report's Best
- illustrated badges for all of U.S. News' "Best" rankings

- Grad School Programs
- illustrated icons representing ranked grad school specialties
- see them in action »

- U.S. News & World Report's Compass
- illustrated logo for the education section's premium paid membership

- Tour icons
- illustrated icons representing 1-day, 2-day, 3-day and family vacation tours

- Topic icons
- illustrated proposed iPhone-app style icons representing the U.S. News topic sections

I'm a web designer living and working in DC, striving to create simple, functional, and pleasing designs. When I'm not designing, I'm usually riding bikes, cooking stuff, or looking at animated .gifs of cats.
see my resume
Laura Hahn
- phone: 202.256.0815
Qualifications
- Expertise in Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Dreamweaver
- Strong understanding of front-end development and best practices in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and JQuery
- Experience with 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
- U.S. News & World Report
- Washington, DC
- July 2009 – present
- Position: User Experience Designer
- Duties: 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
- Washington, DC
- January 2009 – July 2009
- Position: Interactive division design intern
- Duties: Creating web graphics, ads and high-fidelity site designs, working with HTML, CSS and JavaScript, collaborating with developers, project managers and producers
- Freelance work
- 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
- Washington, DC
- June 2008 - January 2009
- Degree: Certificate in Web and Graphic Design
- Dickinson College
- Carlisle, PA
- August 2002 - May 2006
- Degree: Bachelor of Arts in Art History - Departmental Honors, Magna Cum Laude
see my work on dribbble
see my blog
see my tumblr filled with animated .gifs of cats
see me riding bikes as Misty from Pokémon
Courtesy of Jesse Florig

Laura Hahn

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