Hi 👋 I’m Lauralee, a product designer with 10+ years of experience designing, building, and creating. I currently design at Weights & Biases.

2022 - PresentWeights & Biases is an AI developer platform. As the first designer hired onto a growing design team, I led the creation of the company’s design system, spearheaded UX efforts across the organization, and mentored designers as well as owning end-to-end product design strategy and implementation.

2016 - 2020KickoffLabs is a lead generation tool using landing pages. As the only product designer at this small company, I owned end-to-end UX and product design strategy and implementation. Created and implemented a design system. Juggled both ambiguous and broad problems/opportunities along with smaller well-defined projects.

2015 - 2016Pure Chat is a live chat sofware platform. I was the first product designer hired at the company. My responsibilities included endto-end product design from concept exploration through prototyping, visual design details, user experience and product strategy and direction.

2010 - 2015I led end-to-end projects for diverse clients, specializing in UX and product design. My expertise ranged from conducting in-depth user research and developing strategic UX recommendations to executing comprehensive usability studies for optimizing product experiences. I crafted designs for new products (0 to 1) and revamped core product areas.

2008 - 2010Hired, trained, and lead UX and Web Analyst team of 20+. Oversaw all UX efforts. Started and ran a web analytics team using this information as an additional data point for UX recommendations.

2007 - 2008Collaborated with stakeholders, defined research questions, selected appropriate methods of data collection, recruited participants, conducted research studies, analyzed the data, transformed data into insights, presented findings and recommendations to stakeholders.

2006 - 2008Developed and taught undergraduate and graudate courses on the fundamentals of how to create a user-centered product, UX fundamentals, information architecture, interaction design, and usability testing.