MongoDB Blog Refresh
After being promoted to Senior Visual Designer, the MongoDB Blog was one of the first projects I fully owned. At the time, our blog was very visually sparse, and our team didn’t feel that it reflected the billion-dollar company that we are. The following refresh was twofold: our team created a set of evergreen category headers that could be reused without sacrificing interest and cohesion, and then worked closely with the Blog and Web team to create bespoke illustrations for high-impact posts. I wanted to ensure that the new blog felt editorial and polished with an emphasis on metaphor and narrative.
As the lead, I was responsible for the art direction, contractor and stakeholder management, and execution. I was able to set up a robust process that included points of iteration and metrics-gathering to measure success. Below are a few of the many illustrations we created for the new blog, along with the article title.
Responsibilities: Project Lead
Contributors: MongoDB Brand Illustration
“Inspire Your Classroom: Free MongoDB Resources and Success Story from Professor Alawini”
“New Course for Building AI Applications with MongoDB on AWS”
“What’s New From MongoDB at AWS re:Invent 2024”
“Exploring the Latest Features in Atlas Charts: Summer 2024”
“Search Nodes & Multi-Region Availability”
“Debunking MongoDB Myths: Security, Scale, and Performance“
“MongoDB 8.0 Announcement”
“Building Gen AI with AI Partners”
“MongoDB Leadership Series: Jim Scharf”