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“Taylor Waldon is one of the most high-performing and driven people I have ever met.”

“Taylor Waldon is one of the most high-performing and driven people I have ever met. She was deeply engaged and omnipresent in her work as the Product Owner of LearnDash. Her care for LearnDash users was evident in all aspects of her Product Strategy and execution. Taylor took full ownership of the process from ideation through launch, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams and leveraging her marketing expertise to bring powerful stories to market. Her natural curiosity and eagerness to learn new tools — especially in emerging areas like AI — sparked innovation and inspired the same curiosity across the team, and across the company.”

Camilla Nguyen (Kronenwetter)
Product UI/UX Designer @ LiquidWeb, Cloud One Digital
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Reviewer Meta Data

relationship: peer
length: 2_years
taylor_versions: vLearnDash_ProOwn
focus: ld_modern-appearance; ld_student-management; ld_ui-backend-upgrades
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  • Relationship: Cami and I worked side-by-side from start to finish during my time at LearnDash. Together, we took on what many before us had called “impossible” — modernizing the front end of a legacy LMS product without breaking the customer experience.
  • Length: Two years.
  • Taylor Versions: I was Product Owner during our collaboration, working in constant sync with Cami on design, roadmap strategy, and release planning.
  • Focus:
    Cami and I envisioned an entirely new future for LearnDash — beginning with the Modern Appearance project, a long-term initiative to update LearnDash’s student-facing UI. That work reached roughly 70 % completion at handoff, following several previous attempts by earlier teams. Its pause came only because of the 2025 restructuring.
    We also collaborated on the Student Management UI, where we planned to introduce a dedicated student WordPress user type — a foundational change for future reporting, permissions, and progress tracking.
    Beyond those major projects, Cami and I coordinated a broader roadmap to modernize backend architecture and elevate the overall user experience:
    • Aligning backend upgrades with upcoming UI/UX improvements to eliminate friction.
    • Streamlining design ↔ engineering handoffs, preparing for agentic-AI assistance via Figma’s variable system and standardized component language.
    • Re-centering customer expectations in the roadmap, ensuring every fix, feature, and visual upgrade served a clear, user-driven purpose.