Laura Dantonio is a Principal Product Designer (UX) at Wood Mackenzie, specializing in Product Strategy, Research & Analytics, and Strategic Planning. With a strong background in UX leadership, she has shaped user experiences across publishing, telecom, finance, and social media start-ups.
Previously, Laura was a UX Lead Designer at Elsevier, where she played a key role in designing research-driven solutions for the academic publishing industry.
With over a decade of experience driving UX impact in cross-functional teams, Laura focuses on aligning design efforts with business objectives.
She is passionate about helping teams bridge the gap between UX, product, and engineering to create meaningful, user-cantered outcomes.
Past Talks
In this talk, I'm going to present a series of visual maps used to foster cross-discipline collaboration and team alignment in an enterprise search redesign. Search is a complex experience that requires a highly technical team and cross-discipline collaboration. For this project, I created a search framework to understand users' pain points in a visual map to guide design/development and foster collaboration. We used this framework to redesign search experiences and found it useful to prioritise search features and support collaboration. Participants will learn why using visual maps is useful for team collaboration and they will be inspired to create maps with practical examples.