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Designing solutions in successful prisoner reentry for Tipping Point Community
This project was conducted as one of nine members in the inaugural fellowship class of Tipping Point’s T Lab – an R&D lab within the nonprofit, focused on prototyping human-centered design solutions for local social […]
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Investigating social shopping experiences
Design research conducted in New York City for Vitamins Design (now Special Projects Studio), London, UK. This user-centered brief focused on understanding the social shopping experience: what elements drive it (both digital and analog), and […]
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The Ludic Group: Using design-led thinking to facilitate innovation in business
Consultant and production work in London, UK. The Ludic Group aims to translate and incorporate the design process into business environments seamlessly and efficiently by incorporating user-centered research insights to address new service, workflow, and […]
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Food and beverage choice amongst Millenials
Design research and workshop for PepsiCo in collaboration with Design Continuum. This open brief researching millenials’ (18-31 yr olds) eating and drinking habits, aimed to uncover insights into young people and their choices regarding food […]
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Nokia Transitions: Communication, ageing and independent living
Design research conducted for Nokia on internet-based services for older people. London, UK The Transitions project in partnership with the Design Research and Foresight team at Nokia explored communications needs around key points of transition […]
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Managing life through mobile devices
Conducted for Fjord Design in Los Angeles, CA This user-research work done for Fjord Design aimed to provide insight for a top ‘tier 2’ mobile client into how people manage their lives through mobile devices. […]
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Girl Scout Leadership Institute workshop
Introducing user-research techniques to teenagers. Girl Scouts from across the US took over the George Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas, for their 2011 world congress. One session of the Leadership Institute, led by the […]
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BLDG 92 exhibition design at the Brooklyn Navy Yard Center
Consulting for Exhibition Art & Technology. The Brooklyn Navy Yard: Past, Present and Future Exhibition at BLDG 92 chronicles the 200 year history of the Yard, and presents its distinguished history in the Navy Yard […]
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Design research for corn biomass raw materials
Project development lead, West Lafayette, IN. Hapa is an on-going interdisciplary endeavour to research and develop a set of products in conjunction with the Purdue University Dept. of Food Science Bioprocessing Lab that encourage further […]
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Innovation Challenge Workshop for LSE
Design-led thinking for business innovation. The Innovation Challenge Workshop for the London School of Economics Entrepreneurial Society International Challenge introduced economics and business school graduate students to a design-led innovation process, focused on human-centered user […]
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A Think-and-Make Tank for Soul of Africa
Oxford Saïd School of Business + Nine Multi-disciplinary Designers. Groups of business students, working with designers, tackled a brief investigating business aspects of the Soul of Africa charity, an organisation that employs widowed women in […]
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Design tutoring at the Royal College of Art
Innovation Design Engineering Department. Tutoring in the IDE department at the Royal College of Art included running modules for first year MA students to teach creative design process, as well as a masterclass module with […]
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DOTT 07 (Design of the Times)
Turning turbines into sustainable tourism. A project dubbed ‘Perpetua’ explored the concept of using the physical form and internal mechanism of the wind turbine to create a visual spectacle as well as usable space. The […]
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SHARE: Interactive food packaging
Product design research and development exploring social eating. It has been shown that social interaction at mealtimes has benefits on overall mental and physical health. How is it possible to increase this type of interaction […]
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Echo: Imagining the future of plastic
Design research and exhibition development for the Science Museum, London, UK. What is the future of plastic? Asked by the Science Museum to envision a plastic future for a ‘100 years of Plastics’ exhibition, the […]
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Stoma Care: Ergonomic medical products for ostomy patients
Winner of the PDD Carbonate Innovation Award 2007, British Design Innovation. The Diamond Pack is a redesign of the ostomy bag, a medical product for patients who, due to removal of part or all of […]
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SPHERES Satellites on the International Space Station
Experimental testbed for formation-flying algorithms. SPHERES is a flight project currently operating onboard the International Space Station (ISS), built to test formation-flying and docking algorithms for future space telescope arrays. The testbed allows developers to […]