“When the world connected on Skype”

Rest of World | 2025

When Skype officially shut down on May 5, 2025, we asked readers to share their favorite memories of the platform. As the art director and designer on the project, I wanted to honor its legacy by leaning into the nostalgia of early Skype communication. I pulled the anecdotes together into a cohesive and delightful experience by using its iconic blue color scheme, cloud motifs and classic animated emojis. Throughout the story, I also riffed on the original Skype interface by emulating the experience of making audio and video calls on the service. That meant incorporating interactive answer/end call buttons and adapting Skype’s iconic dial tone jingles into the audio and videos that we collected in our interviews. I decided to feature contributors' original Skype profile images where available, too. The page design is both an ode to a now-defunct platform and a warm reminder of how technology brought us together across distances during a transformative era of digital communication.

“Gig Workers Rising” series

Rest of World | 2025

Rest of World collaborated with Context News on its first ever video series “Gig Workers Rising” and investigated how workers are uniting to rewrite the rules of the global gig economy. There are four installments that take place in cities around the world, from Ho Chi Minh City to Hyderabad, all published within a few months of each other. I designed a video template for the series including a handlettered title card as well as the landing page.

Homepage redesign

Rest of World | 2025-2024

A publication’s homepage is essential for many reasons: conveying its identity and mission, gaining reader trust, showing the breadth of work it has to offer and becoming a destination for readers to return to. I had the opportunity to update Rest of World’s homepage to better execute these objectives after a few years of publishing. The masthead received a significant revamp with the logo now placed center and made bigger. It is one of the most distinctive elements of our brand identity, and I wanted to spotlight it front and center with its rotating system of diacritics. The new layout also created more room for links to pages like the newsletter index. Google Analytics showed that there was a 165% increase in the average number of clicks per day on the masthead with these changes. The homepage’s color palette also underwent a drastic change. It used to rotate through several different color palettes in our old system, but we learned from user interviews that many readers found this to be confusing. In its place, I chose a white background where all of our visuals could shine and different colors from our updated palette like cobalt or pink could play nice together.

“How AI reduces the world to stereotypes”

Rest of World | 2023

With the recent breakthroughs in the field of AI image generation, we created and analyzed 3,000 images on Midjourney to explore how AI “sees the world.” To showcase the depth of the data without overwhelming our readers, I designed an interactive grid that could display the various image sets made by specific prompts. Custom filters highlight specific elements — and stereotypes — within sets and add another layer of analysis. The result reveals the persistence of bias and stereotypes in AI on a digestible scale.

• Society for News Design Bronze Medal in Design, Social Issues
• National Magazine Award Winner in Design

“The search for the perfect sound”

The Washington Post | 2022

This immersive project presents people with a way to listen in and decide for themselves: what is the perfect sound? I designed and coded interactive elements like music players and quizzes where readers can test their ability to distinguish sound quality, using music samples from Neil Young, the Miles Davis Quintet and Carole King. In addition, I played with colorful dots as a motif throughout the piece, evoking the dynamic movement of music and uniting the various sections in which Geoff Edgers talks to over 50 people about the way music and quality of sound have evolved, from the heyday of vinyl and analogue to the rise of digital and people’s changing listening habits.

• Society for News Design Award of Excellence in Design, Features
• Society for News Design Award of Excellence in Audio Design
• Online Journalism Awards Winner in Audio Digital Storytelling

“Titian comes together”

The Washington Post | 2021

Arts critic Sebastian Smee looked at each of painting from the traveling exhibition “Titian: Women, Myth & Power,” which made its only U.S. stop at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 2021. The six paintings were reunited for the first time since Titian painted them in the 16th century, and I wanted to reflect that in the topper design with a playful and eye-catching animation. Further down in the story, readers also have the option to zoom into the paintings to see them in detail as Smee shares the stories behind them.

“A closer look at why border walls won’t stop asylum seekers”

The Washington Post | 2019

Our National team came across a photo that immediately reveals why a wall won’t stop immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border like supporters had claimed. I designed and developed a digital and print experience that walks the reader through the photo step by step, showing how families are able to exercise their legal right to seek asylum when they reach U.S. soil before the wall.