Summary
Lauren Hallden is a Senior Staff Designer with a decade of experience crafting UX/UI for SaaS products and interactive web content, currently shaping contract workflows at Common Paper. She blends data-driven decision making with a taste for small, delightful interactions—work the Washington Post once called a rare alchemy of code and social media. Past roles at Talend, Stitch, Magento, and RJMetrics show a track record of shipping features end-to-end, building pattern libraries, and optimizing marketing portfolios for growth. Based in Philadelphia, she also publishes independent projects—from a hiking app to a therapy cost calculator and a conversational Twitter bot—that reveal a curiosity for social tools and civic-minded design. That side work underscores her pragmatic creativity: she prototypes public-facing utilities that surface useful data and human connection.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.F.A, Art Education, B.F.A, Art Education at Moore College of Art and Design
The Pennsylvania State University
Graduate Certificate in Emerging Design and Research, Graduate Certificate in Emerging Design and Research at University of Pennsylvania
English, javascript, html5, css3