Bridging Design and Engineering

Working across WebMD, Medscape, and Havas taught me how different teams interpret design and collaborate.

The real skill was adjusting my approach so the final output matched the intent, no matter how each group worked.

WebMD and Medscape

The WebMD team followed specs literally, which meant the build sometimes missed the intended look or feel. Getting changes made took patience and steady communication. Medscape was the opposite. Their younger team was open, flexible, and happy to sit together and work through how the design should translate.

Learning how each team operated helped me adapt quickly. One needed diplomacy, the other needed hands on collaboration, and both relied on clear conversations to get the result right.

“Good collaboration is knowing how to meet each team where they are.”

Havas

At Havas, most of the collaboration was with print designers learning digital. I often sat with them while they worked, helping translate their layouts into clean builds. When questions came up, I could walk to the dev team, explain the goal, and work through the technical side together.

It created a smoother flow and kept quality consistent across very different parts of the agency.