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👉🏼you're on the (a)vocation; 2021 → futures page 👈🏼
onward into the futures 👀
- onward into the futures 👀
- 2023
- Lead Strategic Designer → Expedia Group
- 2022
- Lead User Experience Designer → Expedia Group
- contract Lead (Strategic) Designer → Expedia Group
- 2021
- Design at the Design Institute for Health
- Stigma of Addiction in Healthcare
- Beyond Legacy Models Roundtable
- Graduate Student Advising: Anatomy of a Bill
- System Leverage Mapping
- Transitions of Care
- Design in Health Map
- Discipline Development
- Corage
- Longitudinal Workshop Support
- Systems Thinking for Service Designers
- Jumping back into getting the know/edge public beta live
- Design Futures Initiative, Board Member
- Speculative Futures Austin
- Making time to work on personal creative projects
2023
Lead Strategic Designer → Expedia Group
Our team was re-org’d so I’m now leading different programs of work and have thus far been able to operate in a manner that aligns a bit more closely with my preferences; focusing on Service-Systems as opposed to software products and their UI touch points.
2022
Lead User Experience Designer → Expedia Group
Converted to a full-time XD* role.
*XD = Experience Design
contract Lead (Strategic) Designer → Expedia Group
W2 contract w/ Expedia Group working with the Platform Design (Platform Tools & E2E Experience Vision) team w/in the XD* Experience Platform group.
*XD = Experience Design
An emerging mix of Design Strategy, Service Design, Facilitation, and Experience Design, supporting efforts to bridge near-term (day to day) Product Strategy implementation and longer-term Platform Strategy vision, by design.
2021
Design at the Design Institute for Health
Stigma of Addiction in Healthcare
🗓November ‘21 → January '22 🗓
Role: Content + Project Lead
Anchored the design and facilitation of a workshop intended to foster continued engagement post Stigma of Addiction Summit, which is part of an ongoing collaborative effort between Shatterproof and the Dell Medical School Dept. of Internal Medicine.
Beyond Legacy Models Roundtable
🗓November → December '21 🗓
Role: Systems Designer
Supported the design and facilitation of a day long convening in collaboration w/ the MIT Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship which will inform a forthcoming White Paper.
Graduate Student Advising: Anatomy of a Bill
I had the absolute pleasure of offering Rebekah Scott + Christina Shields web design + development advice and guidance as they brought the initial version of their Anatomy of a Bill concept to fruition over the course of 2021. Major props to them.
System Leverage Mapping
🗓July → November '21 🗓
Studio Project, Content Lead
[Systemic Design] [Mapping]
- Updated our adapted System Leverage Map to serve as a generic Miro template for future projects
- Our Systems Leverage Map template is listed on Miroverse:
- Wrote an article on Systems Leverage Mapping for our Medium:
Austin Design Week 2021, Content Lead
- Anchored the planning and facilitation of a workshop on System Leverage Mapping for Austin Design Week '21:
Transitions of Care
Role: Systems Designer + Design (Prototyping) Lead
[Design Research] [Design Strategy] [Service Design] [Mapping; Experience, System]
🗓January '21 → July '21 🗓
Working with the Dell Med School Department of Internal Medicine to help us assess and improve transitions of care from Dell Seton Medical Center to outpatient facilities.
Phase 2: Understanding
🗓April → June 2021 🗓
Designer leading our mapping efforts to make sense of primary research learnings
- doing a lot of iterative, remote co-created mapping in Miro
- utilizing co-created maps as strategic boundary artifacts
Phase 1: prolonged initial Design Sprint
🗓January → March 2021 🗓
What we did:
This phase of work culminated in the design and testing of two prototypes to improve how the discharge summary is written during a two-week testing period:
- A workshop with internal medicine residents and outpatient providers to improve resident understanding of how outpatient providers use the discharge summary and what information is most important to them
- A checklist, shared with internal medicine residents, to provide practical guidance as they write discharge summaries on what information outpatient providers need
We evaluated our prototypes, through surveys and interviews, to see how they affected short-term outcomes and found that residents were more knowledgeable (competencies) and motivated (attitudes) to write good discharge summaries and that the workshop built trust and empathy between inpatient and outpatient providers.
My role and contribution to this collaborative effort:
- Design Lead for the Prototyping phase of our initial Design Sprint
- introduced the Systems Leverage Map framework and guided the team through adapting it to represent our potential future pathways of work
- supporting the Research phase of our initial Design Sprint
- lightly supporting the Evaluation phase of our initial Design Sprint by way of co-leading the Prototyping phase and responding to feedback garnered through testing and collaborating with our broader project team
Design in Health Map
Role: Co-Initiator + Co-Content Lead
🗓November 2020 → ongoing internal effort 🗓
[Information Architecture] [System Mapping]
- getting more familiar with Kumu's CSS-like markdown by way of heavily adapting Kumu's Radar template to our exploratory use cases
- Natalie presented at the HXD Conference about our internal project!
Discipline Development
[Design-Futures] [Systemic Design] [Design Education]
Supporting the development of our institute capabilities in Design-Futures and Systemic Design
- Leading efforts to apply Futures to design as a core studio capability
- working with our Systems Designers Natalie Privett and Arotin Hartounian to
- further develop this discipline internally
- refine how we speak about the nascent discipline when engaging with MA students and external organizations
- contribute to course structure and lesson content for DES294 Health Systems Design as project work and competing project schedules allow
Corage
Role: Designer + interim Content Lead
[Design Strategy] [Service Design] [Facilitation]
Staying engaged in the Corage project through Q1 acting as an interim Content Lead
- facilitating interdisciplinary working group sessions to iteratively adjust our maps for inclusion as figures in academic journal submissions
- updating our initial Experience Maps in support of journal publication with Arotin
- working with members of the Value Institute for Health to assess opportunities to cohere our respective streams of Phase 1 work
Longitudinal Workshop Support
Workshop creation, planning, and facilitation
- MSKI + Design Institute Workshop _ Facilitation _ 02.24.2021
- I stepped in to support the brainstorming portion of a workshop for the UT Health Austin Musculoskeletal Institute
- Solutions Design Workshop _ Planning + Facilitation _ 01.11.2021
- This introductory design workshop was designed and facilitated by José, Natalie P, and myself for the Value Institute for Health & Care MA in Healthcare Transformation program
Systems Thinking for Service Designers
[Systems Thinking] [System Mapping] [Service Design]
🗓January '21 → February '21 🗓
I was accepted into the first cohort of Systems Thinking for Service Designers from Design Dissolve. I'm one of two cohort members living in the Americas, and am the only American in the cohort, which I've quite enjoyed. I completed this training in late February of 2021 and have received a Certificate of Completion.
Jumping back into getting the know/edge public beta live
on the WWW with Ian, Shelby, Steven, and Peter
[Product Design]
You can check out an overview of our public beta via Projector:
- excited that Lauren Schroeder is jumping into the front end efforts of the project to get our beta back live on the WWW!!!!!!
Design Futures Initiative, Board Member
[Design Futures] [Community of Practice] [Nonprofit]
- supporting Speculative Futures chapters by standing up a Chapter Knowledge Base in Notion
- complimenting this Knowledge Base effort by standing up and administrating a chapter location map with Vera
- acting as the Facilitator for the first year of DFI's Futures by Design training in partnership with Kedge
Speculative Futures Austin
Role: Lead Organizer with support from my Co-Organizers iliana Martinez and Mirandy Kim
- I’ve transitioned out of my role as Lead Organizer since moving out of Austin and am excited that Jiabao Li will be acting as Lead Organizer in 2022
- excited to announce that Mirandy Kim joined iliana and I as our 2nd interim Co-Organizer
Making time to work on personal creative projects
on my own outside of work at a nice leisurely pace as i've interest and head-space