Problem

In support of the Verge relaunch, I was tapped lead design on Editorial Tools team for the quick post writing and publishing experience. In addition to navigating priority and organizational changes, the team’s engineers were rebuilding their entire composition experience in vue.js. The key challenge here was to partner and negotiate with engineering partners to create an all new publishing paradigm while minimizing engineering code waste and tech debt, and on time for the launch of the new Verge experience.