Lauren Salk

Lead UI/UX Designer & Design Systems Specialist

Co-Founder of Black Heart Games

Designing scalable systems, shipping live products, and bridging UX, engineering, and art.

Some highlights from my UI/UX Career

My UX Case Studies

Check out my case studies of some UX challenges I’ve brought from ideation to completion, as well as some in-game interfaces that I’ve designed and implemented. I have worked extensively on solving the design, info architecture, layouts, and looks for features, HUDs, menus, full games, apps, and tools.

Click on the tiles to do a deep dive into my end-to-end process.

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Heroes Feature UX
The Heroes Vertical in Game of Thrones: Conquest, a top grossing mobile game.
Wireframes
Design Docs
PlinkIdle - Scaling Systems that Boost the Fun
How I worked through end-to-end UI/UX, art, and design on a lean indie team.
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Art
Implementation
Design
End-to-End

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iCasino Games Design System
A design system for several genres and diverse games in each: Slots, Casual, Cards, etc.
Design System
Wireframes
Design Docs
Process
Live Ops Dev Tool Design
Creating a Live Ops dev tool for scheduling thousands of live events per month.
UXR
Wireframes
Prototyping
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Social Casino App
A top-to-bottom product design (research, art, and UX) for a mobile social casino app.
Competitor Analysis
Wireframes
Product Design
UI Art
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In 2024, I co-founded Black Heart Games.

My Indie Games

Most recently, I’ve been making a lot of indie games alongside my cofounder Dave and our awesome team at Black Heart Games .

Games I’ve worked on since 2008.

Shipped Titles

I’ve been a professional UI/UX Designer on several games, as well as a Content Designer. I’ve contributed design work to Lord of the Rings Online, Game of Thrones Conquest, and many, many more.