I’m a designer and creative technologist interested in making beautiful digital experiences that bring clarity to complex topics.
I currently work as a graphics editor at the New York Times, where I design and build interactive applications, graphics, maps, games, and other internet gizmos. Before that, I worked at small design studios specializing in information design.
My work has received a Peabody award and has been recognized by the Society for News Design, the National Press Foundation, and the National Press Club. Coronavirus tracking tools I helped design were part of a package that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for public service journalism.
I played a key role in designing and building the New York Times’ signature live election results. For more than five years I have helped advance and refine the way the Times displays live election returns, with a particular focus on our live election night forecast (a.k.a. “The Needle”). These pages set the industry standard for election night coverage and are among the most viewed things the Times has ever published.
I spent most of 2020 working on a small team to design and build the Times’ Covid-19 tracking dashboards. We published trackers for every state and county, along with tools that let readers customize a dashboard to track Covid in places important to them. These pages were viewed more than a billion times and were part of a package that won the Pulitzer Prize for public service.
This game aims to teach readers about the mechanics of partisan gerrymandering. I designed and built the game UI with a focus on making sure it was fun and rewarding to play while also fulfilling its purpose as an educational tool. Readers still regularly play the game today, thee years after publication, and school teachers have told us they added it to their curricula.
I designed and built a map of precint-level results of the 2020 presidential election. Readers can search for their address to see how their precinct voted and how the vote shifted from 2016.
I designed an animated dashboard in collaboration with YouTube showing popular videos in 2019 for the official YouTube rewind website.
This Peabody award-winning reconstruction of the Maui fires showed the chain of failures that left more than 100 people dead in Lahaina. I helped design and build the custom 3D map UI that allowed us to overlay videos onto the terrain to tell the stories of people caught in the inferno.
This story uses immersive 3D maps to show how Ukraine held off Russia’s advances on its capital city.
Visualizing how a group of Republican operatives created fake non-profits, which raised $89 million and siphoned 99% of it into the pockets of shady vendors and the non-profit founders themselves.
A visual analysis of the factions within the House Republican caucus.
I used WegGL to created animated maps and charts showing the projected impact of sea level rise on New Jersey’s coast.
I have also worked on projects about Covid hospitalizations, demographic change, campaign finance, solar eclipse traffic, Trump’s criminal cases, and many other things. For a more up-to-date list of my work, you can view my New York Times bio.