Lauren Rice
Senior Visual Design Lead, Carbon Design System at IBM
Winchester, New Hampshire, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLauren Rice is a Senior Visual Design Lead at IBM, bringing seven years of experience shaping enterprise design systems and product experiences. She leads visual strategy for the Carbon Design System, contributing hands-on front-end work—especially nuanced color token engineering—to the widely used carbon-website. With a BFA in Graphic Design and roots in digital media, Lauren blends traditional art-driven craft with practical UX and front-end implementation. Colleagues rely on her to translate complex theming needs into maintainable tokens and accessible UI states, a detail-oriented skill that often goes unnoticed outside design-engineering teams. Based in Winchester, New Hampshire, she pairs system-level thinking with a maker’s attention to visual detail across cloud and product design contexts.
7 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Graphic Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Graphic Design at Savannah College of Art and DesignAssociate of Science (A.S.), Digital Media Technology, Associate of Science (A.S.), Digital Media Technology at Santa Fe Community College
Github Skills (6)
carbon-lang10
carbon-copy10
gatsby10
react10
ui-design9
javascript9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
carbon-design-system/carbon-website
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
The website for the Carbon Design System.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:643 reviews, 96 commits, 187 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Lauren primarily contributed to the Carbon Design System website, focusing on the color tokens and their usage within the design system. Their work involved adding, updating, and modifying color tokens, including their roles and values for different themes. They also added new tokens for specific UI states like active and hover, and corrected hex values for existing tokens, which involved direct modifications to the color token definitions.
gatsbyreactcarbon-design-systemibmdesign-system
IBM/design-kit
Aug 2019 - Mar 2022
The IBM Design kit is a collection of tools aimed to help you design and prototype experiences faster, with confidence and thoughtfulness. This kit is based on the IBM Design System. Also, you may use this documentation to create add-on libraries to the IBM Design System or submit bugs to the current system.
Contributions:11 commits, 3 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 years 7 months
confidencereactfastersubmitexperiences
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