Throughout the 2024 national general election period, the CBS News website and app utilized long pre-existing data display components. My role in that particular project involved a tremendous amount of design refinement and standardization work, in which I collected all existing designs (originally scattered across numerous Sketch files and Invision projects), into one single Figma document.

However, I did design one new proposed component, loosely based on a full-width unit on the CBS Sports website that displayed sports stats and scores. This component would have displayed the CBS News editorial projections for the Presidential, House, and Senate races, and eventually on election night, the actual results. This project was presented internally, but was not produced.

By the 2025 elections, CBS News had a reorganized web engineering team, with the resources to execute an expanded version of this concept. This more fully-featured version supported a continuously-updated horizontally-scrolling news feed, and the results for three key races.

Below is an unused concept. I strongly felt that on election day, while polls are still open and no results have yet been reported, a news organization like CBS News ought to display general information about each race and its candidates. My thinking was that political junkies may be familiar with these three races and some of the candidates, but casual visitors to the CBS News site would benefit from some short explanatory text informting them why these races were important. The News editorial team strongly disagreed, and instead, a version of the above was displayed throughout election day, with empty race result tables.

I built a complex prototype, to demonstrate responsive behavior, interaction, and "signs of life" animation (such as a pulsing "live updates" flag, and visual indications of when the news feed is updated or incremental elections results are reported). I cannot present the actual prototype here in my portfolio, due to it using licensed webfonts, but the below screen recording will give some sense of its functionality.

Finally, below is another unused concept: a rough sketch of how the 2026 midterm results might look in this format.