Bridgette Chen is a Product Designer at Axios with a background in visual design.
She stands out for her attention to detail and advocacy for beauty as a non-negotiable in digital interfaces. She believes that in the age of AI, taste & thoughtfulness become the qualities that set designers—and their work—apart.
Migrating the Axios Local newsroom from our own Eden CMS to Sanity.io, translating established, complex editorial workflows and custom-built features onto a third-party platform with new UI/UX constraints.
Team
Julia Pope (PM)
Liz Davidson (Tech Lead)
Minhajul Hoq (FE)
Jorge Martinez (BE)
Asma Harding (QE)
Duration
Dec 2025–July 2026
Stakeholder
Axios Newsroom (Local)
A system that empowers Axios to scale into more local markets by reducing the manual work reporters spend assembling daily newsletters. It uses AI to fetch trusted data and pre-fill drafts, giving reporters more time for reporting and less time on research and formatting.
Team
Srinidhi Ramakrishna (PM)
Stephen Kernan (Eng)
Michael Miranda (Eng)
Shreye Saxena (Data)
Duration
March 2026–present
Stakeholder
Axios Newsroom (Local)
An end-to-end visual asset management tool for Axios illustrators and journalists, covering image storage, discovery, and reuse tracking across the asset library and CMS writing experience, plus a separate rights-tracking workflow for reporter-sourced images.
Team
Srinidhi Ramakrishna (PM)
Marie Conelly (PM)
Adam Hirsch (EM)
Gustavo Bottega (FE)
Andy Schaaf (FE)
Jorge Martinez (BE)
Asma Harding (QE)
Duration
June 2024–June 2025
Stakeholder
Axios Newsroom (All)
Axios Visuals Team
Axios Legal Team
A unified design system for Axios—consolidating two product design languages, introducing design tokens, and establishing a Figma-to-Storybook component library for design-development parity.
Team
Eunice Kim (Director of Design)
Andrea Papas (PD)
Alyson Cardenas (PD)
Caroline Frank (PD)
Shehab Ibrahim (PD)
Duration
2023–present
Stakeholder
Axios Frontend Guild
The MVP launch of Axios Local, a brand new product line scaled from concept to 25 cities by end of 2021, opening new revenue channels through advertising, membership, and city-specific job boards.
Team
Lindsay Goddard (PM)
Matt Panton (EM)
Greg Altman (Tech Lead)
Augusto Corvalan (FE)
Preston Richey (FE)
William VanDolah (FE)
Dakota Sexton (FE)
Brian Le (BE)
Jorge Martinez (BE)
Tim Reynolds (QE)
Duration
March 2021–October 2021
Stakeholder
Axios Newsroom (Local)
A series of smaller projects I worked on at Axios, ranging from designing and building custom landing pages to enhancing small touch points in our mobile app to improving the reader-facing Axios.com experience.
Projects featured:
1. Media Trends Executive Membership (Axios.com)
2. Nav Redesign (Axios.com)
3. Editorial Team Page (Axios.com)
4. Enterprise Tech 2023 (Axios.com)
5. Live Blog (Axios.com + App)
6. Commenting (Eden CMS)
7. Card Publishing (Eden CMS)
8. Social Media Asset Generator (Eden CMS)
9. Dashboard Filtering (Eden CMS)