Kiersten Schmidt
Product Designer MS NOW at Versant Media
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKiersten Schmidt is a product designer and former journalist with a decade of experience turning complex data into clear, engaging visual narratives for major newsrooms including NBC News Digital, CNBC, and The Wall Street Journal. She specializes in data visualization and UX, having built interactive news apps and election graphics that helped millions of readers understand timely stories. A Master’s-trained interactive journalist, Kiersten blends editorial rigor with design craft— from newsroom graphics and sports covers to scalable web interactives—bringing both storytelling and technical fluency to product design. Based in Jersey City, she now leads product design at MS NOW, where she applies newsroom-tested design processes to product problems, and her portfolio demonstrates a knack for making dense datasets feel intuitive and human.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Brooklyn Technical High SchoolMaster of Arts Interactive Journalism, Master of Arts Interactive Journalism at The University of North Carolina at Chapel HillBachelor of Science in Communication Visual Journalism Political Science, Bachelor of Science in Communication Visual Journalism Political Science at University of Miami
Github Skills (8)
unc6
visual-analytics3
financial3
financial-data3
analytics2
d3js2
data-visualization2
visualization2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kschmidt2/I690-education-data
Oct 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:52 commits, 46 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
d3jsfinancialanalyticsfinancial-educationhill
kschmidt2/masters-thesis
Jan 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:52 commits, 49 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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