news product design

The Washington Post

Visual storytelling roundups

Design team leadership pitched the idea of doing a roundup-style collection of the custom, interactive visual stories we built during the year at the end of 2024, and I was tasked with a fairly quick turnaround on the collection. I collaborated with editors from design, graphics and opinions teams to gather the best pieces from the year and create this database.

I picked up the project again at the end of 2025, aiming to iterate on what we learned the previous year and seeing what features we could implement to make it better serve readers. Notably, we added a save function that allows readers to save each story to their library. I also collaborated with more stakeholders this year to ensure the best stories were represented.

2024-2025

Best of 2025 →

Best of 2024 →

⬆️ 2024

⬆️ 2025

⬆️ Save story feature

⬆️ 2024 landing page and featured climate stories

⬆️ 2025 landing page and featured climate stories

⬆️ 2025 visual research moodboard, wireframes and mockups

Timeline template

I developed a bespoke timeline for a feature story (Anatomy of a flood) that I helped transition into a template for expedited storytelling on the news design team. I was able to use a polished version of the component I first built in late 2024 in January 2025 to visualize the breaking news of the LA wildfires.

Later in the year, my timeline designs were transitioned into a working template by our internal news story formats team that made the bridge from our CMS to the template even smoother to allow for faster production across teams. It has since been used in several breaking news events to allow for quick, elevated storytelling.

2024-2025

⬆️ The first iteration of the timeline element in “Anatomy of a flood”

⬇️ Use of the timeline template for the LA wildfires

⬆️ Figma mockups for the original timeline element

Ask the Post AI (Climate)

I was the initial designer tasked with exploring how we could use an internal Washington Post LLM that the engineering team was developing to power a chatbot scoped to the climate coverage.

I met weekly with the project team and collaborated closely with engineering and the news design leadership to craft user flows and design a striking interface. I met with stakeholders over the course of the year that the project was in my hands and got approval and edits on the design and UX writing that I also helped craft.

Once I had developed a strong direction for the tool, a developer on my team joined the project to help bring it to life. We partnered on creating an inline embed that could be placed directly in stories that would allow users to interact with it on any page of the site.

We handed off the project at the next stage, where it would go on to be built out as a full landing page that was managed by the engineering and newsroom product departments. The tool has since expanded beyond its initial beta testing with climate and is now available across the site and inline in a new format across all stories.

2022-2023