Paula Friedrich

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I designed and developed this series of charts looking at online donations to downballot races from January to April 2024.

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I designed and developed this piece that looks at the causes of inflation through the lens of a cheeseburger.

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I worked on a small team to design and develop POLITICO's election pages from the ground up. We built a style library in Figma and Storybook, with the goal of having a flexible series of modules that can be used across pages.

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I redesigned this tracker in 2021 to have an easier overview and to include historical fire perimeters (though this feature looks to be now broken now.)

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I designed this series of neighborhood eating guides for The San Francisco Chronicle. Developed with Gatsby.js.

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This tool allowed Illinois residents to answer a few questions and get personalized, step-by-step for voting by mail in 2020. Developed in Observable for The Chicago Reporter and WBEZ.

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A questionnaire and quiz to help Chicago voters compare 14 candidates for mayor.

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I led the crowdsourcing effort for this summer activity guide for WBEZ. I designed and developed the filterable presentation and illustrated the header.

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This piece was developed during the Chicago teachers strike in 2019 to show how negotiations were progressing with a simple side by side comparison of where the two sides stood throughout the process.

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This tool allows Chicagoans to type in their address and see how many times their alderperson showed up for work (or didn’t). I built it using Mapbox, D3, and a data set carefully compiled by reporters at WBEZ and The Daily Line.

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I reported, illustrated and developed this look at the making of a state fair classic, with fun details such as: The butter is recycled every year and smells like 'old parmesan.'