I am a Chicago-based Web-designer/ writer/ Internet marketing specialist. I've worked in publishing for more than 15 years as a magazine editor, Web designer, book author, magazine feature writer, and Web director (pretty much in that order).
Here is a collection of my work and other things I find interesting.
You can contact me by emailing lisa[at]lisahazen.com
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It was a pleasure to work with Lisa Hazen on our project. It's rare that you encounter someone with such a high level of artistic ability combined with excellent communication skills, a very organized workflow process, punctuality, and professionalism. Lisa's contributions have been a vital addition to our project and she helped bring our ideas to life. — Eben English, Voices of the Holocaust
Lisa has been such a pleasure to work with while creating our new Boston Body Pilates website. I was dreading the task because there were so many components to complete. Lisa was calm and encouraging throughout. She listened to me and also had lots of great ideas. As I expressed my preferences she continued to give me what I wanted. I love our new site! I would recommend Lisa to anyone who wants a beautiful web site that truly expresses their business philosophy and personality. — Zayna Gold, Boston Body Pilates
Lisa is a blast to work with and I am so happy with how my blog looks and functions. She has a wonderful personality on the telephone, is punctual and reliable in scheduling work sessions, during which she is as creative in a brainstorming session as she is calm in a storm! From technical wizardry to design inspiration, she offers one-stop shopping for getting an idea up and online. — Sarah Bowman, The Family Savvy
Lisa Hazen developed an outstanding web site for our school. She was easy to work with throughout the project and offered training and occasional follow up support so that I learned to edit and maintain the site with ease. Lisa communicates well, offers advice on strategy for using the web site to its fullest potential to communicate with our constituents, and she's been a dream to work with! She both listened to our needs and hopes for the site and offered valuable counsel in making our ideas even better! I give Lisa Hazen my highest recommendation for web design! We now have a web site that gives parents valuable information about our work and which makes other schools envious! — Heather Yutzy, Principal, Belding Elementary School
Lisa Hazen is exceptional and the best web designer I have worked with. She brought a rare combination of skill, intuition, and experience to our collaboration, creating a design that thrilled me. I could not be more pleased with the product and its process of development. I feel fantastically appreciative to have worked with her and will use her again, should the need arise. — Saskia Lytle-Vieira, Napa Valley Osteopathic Medicine
From out first conversation about doing my web site, I knew that Lisa was the designer for me. Both professional and creative, Lisa had the ability to understand exactly what I wanted and then translate all my ideas into a fantastic web site that looks great and is functional. On every level, she gets it. Working with Lisa makes the job of creating a web site easy. — Sandra Carpenter, 59 North
Lisa is to be commended for her extraordinary work ethic, project management skills, and flexibility. She made my dream Web site into a reality without ever meeting face-to-face. Lisa always let me know what was going on, available for troubleshooting, and never was out of touch without first letting me know how long she would be unavailable for. While there are thousands of people who do Web design, there is one Lisa Hazen Design, to create a product to get you noticed and remembered. — Candy Lopez, Motivational Miracle
I'd been searching for a Web site designer for several years, but never got past an initial meeting. I realized I needed to work with someone who loved and cared for their work—their product—as much as I do. Too, I was looking for an individual—instead of a corporation—to design and guide the construction of a site. I'd admired my friend Kevin Donnellon's site, for its look and ease of use. Within a day of Kevin connecting us, Lisa contacted me. Immediately I was struck by Lisa's professionalism, drive, knowledge and (don't laugh: it matters) humor. She's real. Lisa created a site for me that is beautiful and functional. She provided invaluable marketing advice. And she delivered on time, within budget. — Anne Moore, AnneMoore.net
Lisa Hazen and Hazen Creative have been fantastic to work with on both Iron & Wine and The Swell Season's sites. Their ability to immediately recognize the scope of the project and provide exciting work within our budget made the development process a breeze. We look forward to a long term working relationship with them as our sites continue to evolve. - John Tosch . Overcoat Management, management for The Swell Season and Iron and Wine
I've worked with Lisa over the past two years to design and then redesign/enhance my website. Working with Lisa has been a great experience. She is very enthusiastic about her work, and I trust her design sense and knowledge about Web design and architecture. She's very willing to explore ideas we come up with and recommend or investigate the best ways to accomplish our goals. From initial proposal to finished design, Lisa provided a professional experience and delivered a site that we're thrilled with. We would definitely work with her again. — Amy Leibrock, pilates-pro.com
Lisa Baggerman is a terrific collaborator, with exceptional knowledge of how best to harness the power of the web. She works well under pressure, and turns around a solid product in record time. — Carrie von der Sitt, Golin Harris
Lisa has been a valuable asset to me in strategy, development and execution of my website. She is savvy and sophisticated about communicating a company’s competitive advantage in a provocative and compelling manner. Her service and attention to detail has been excellent. — Kevin Donnellon, macalicomm.com
When I was ready to launch a site for a new book, I contacted Lisa Hazen at the recommendation of my former Web site designer. I have been so pleased with her creativity, efficiency, originality and simple common sense. In a short time, she completed a complicated site, organized all the technical aspects and pushed me farther along than I ever thought I could go so quickly. She is not only brilliant and exceptionally talented, she is a very nice person and wonderful to work with. She cares a great deal about the content and final Web product. She works extremely hard to create a site that moves far beyond your expectations. — Michele Weldon, everymannews.com
Lisa Hazen executed a large and important project with the utmost professionalism, patience, and creativity. The finished product is elegant, suits the intended audience, and fully accomplishes what we set-out to do. I’d work with her again in a heartbeat. — Laina Adler, HarperCollins San Francisco, nrsv.net
After an unsuccessful attempt to have someone else design a website for me, I called Lisa. What a difference! She came up with a beautiful design and was able to put the whole thing together in spite of the fact that I was less than prompt with supplying the elements she needed. In a very non-pushy way, she made sure that the project continued to move forward even when I was too busy to do my part. The end result is a site that not only serves its purpose, but will easily expand as my needs expand. Everyone that visits it comments on how well done and attractive my web site is. Lisa was an absolute pleasure to work with from beginning to end. — Dr. Lauren Streicher, drstreicher.com
Lisa was a true pleasure to work with on our recent project for the City of Chicago. She is creative, open and, most importantly, easy to communicate with. Her deadlines were not just met she was early and exceeded our expectations for the website. I truly enjoyed meeting and working with Lisa and can't wait to do more work with her. — Kimberlee Mulherin, Alert Chicago
I chose Lisa to design and build my site because she impressed me from the start with her accessibility, organization and quick response. She was a pleasure to work with—reliable, patient, supportive and industrious. I wanted a simple yet professional, clean site with quick turnaround. In Lisa I found that rare combination of punctuality and creativity. — Rebekah Rotstein, Incorporating Movement
We worked with Lisa when we first launched our website in 1997. From day one we were inspired by her knowledge, her passion and her commitment to building a Web site that enhanced our brand and expanded our customer base. Due to Lisa's innovative spirit and her dedication to getting it right, we now have a website which goes beyond ecommerce and stretches into building communities and relationships with the end consumers. — Abby Hoffman, Chronicle Books
Lisa Hazen has a rare combination of gifts: a deep understanding of computer and Web architecture with an artist's creative vision. She's responsive, energetic and a pleasure to work with. — Sara Paretsky, saraparetsky.com
We hired Lisa Hazen to create our website blog and eNewsletter at Pilates Pro (www.pilates-pro.com), a launch project for the former staff of Pilates Style Magazine. Lisa proactive approach allowed us to smoothly transition our delivery from print to web. Lisa researched questions and put procedures in place to direct us to a finished product that was met with acceptance and acknowledged in the industry as professional and timely. With 3,400 members in 38 countries in only 3 months of operation, we feel that Lisa's ability to create a successful product has put us in a good position for growth. — Stacy Ciaravella, Pilates Pro
We hired Lisa Hazen to create a mini-site devoted to our organization's anniversary. Lisa brought such creativity, clarity, and insight to the process. The end result was a beautiful site which met all of our needs and exceeded our expectations. — Calla Devlin, NCLR
Lisa did a great job with the website for our vacation rental apartment. She put it together very quickly and patiently put up with our repeated changes. The end result is simple and attractive, exactly what we were looking for. — Matt Zinn, Studio on Sixth
I've worked with Lisa on a handful of stories in the past couple of months, and every time has made me wish we could turn even more stories over to her. Throughout the entire process of the story, she's been a pleasure to work with, whether it's from knowing what kinds of stories we’re looking for and what to pitch us to knowing how to tell a good story and how to structure the kinds of stories we need. And, as an editor's dream come true, she always keeps me updated on how the story is going and gets the articles in on time. Plus, she's just super nice and always helpful! — Carmen Pease, HOW magazine
We received several proposals but selected Lisa because she understood what we wanted to achieve, She was excited about the project and brought us creative ideas. Throughout the process she was organized and clear in what needed to be done at which stage, and kept us on schedule so that everything was completed in a timely way. She was generous with her time and flexible. She gave us constructive suggestions and made changes as necessary. We now have a Web site that is well-designed, functional, eye-catching, and easy to navigate. She was a pleasure to work with. — Joye Wiley, Ark Wiley & Jobson
Lisa's work was fast, professional, and won praise from everyone who visited the site. When it was converted to feature the film rather than the book, she had done such a marvelous job with the architecture that the effort was flawless and inexpensive. I highly recommend her — James Dalessandro, 1906
I’ve worked with Lisa on a handful of stories in the past couple of months, and every time has made me wish we could turn even more stories over to her. Throughout the entire process of the story, she’s been a pleasure to work with, whether it’s from knowing what kinds of stories we’re looking for and what to pitch us to knowing how to tell a good story and how to structure the kinds of stories we need. And, as an editor’s dream come true, she always keeps me updated on how the story is going and gets the articles in on time. Plus, she’s just super nice and always helpful. Carmen Pease, HOW
I was just starting out with my business and needed a great site to display my work. Lisa masterfully created my whole Web site exactly to my liking. She made it very easy to work with her via phone or email to make design choices more simple. On top of that, she's super sweet, uber-professional and very easy to be around. I still get compliments on the design of my website. — Stacy McClure, Makeup By Stacy
Lisa did a fantastic job on the website for our most important title of the season, "You Can Do It!". She amazed me with how she incorporated design elements from the book, interactive tools so users would explore and stay on the site, and a great place for both contributors to the book and press could go. The site was totally integrated and overall, Lisa used both her strategic thinking and creative talent to develop one of the best book-related sites I have ever seen. — Kendra Kallan, You Can Do It
In addition to being a joy to work with, Lisa is a true professional who did a great job on our website and enewsletter project. Her work integrating the enewsletter copy and design into the website was seamless and creative. Leslie Sagawitz, Milk It Mama
Oh, and here's my resume.