How to Get Hired as a Front-End Design Engineer
What does it take to join the Revelry design team? After seven years of hiring front-end designers, VP of Design Laura Eble shares her…
Laura Eble
Vice President, Front End Design
About Laura Eble
Laura Eble is a designer at Revelry. She joined the team in 2014 and brings experience and expertise in all things visual design.
In her role, Laura contributes by developing design tools and processes to help bridge the gap between Design and Engineering. She excels at creating design patterns and organizing information, and she loves data visualization.
Prior to joining Revelry, Laura was a designer and front-end developer at WWII Museum and Mudbug Media. She studied fine art and psychology at The University of Alabama.
Laura resides in New Orleans. When she's not sketching tiny wireframes or squinting at her laptop, she can often be found gardening, playing with her kids, and ignoring her problems by binge reading sci-fi, fantasy books.
A Peek Behind the Curtain: What our Software Design Engineers Do
Laura Eble has been a Revelry front-end design engineer / UI and UX designer since 2014. We sat down with her to understand what…
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