Unrepresented courses of import:
Integration Lab, Team Studio - MassArt & Design
Solution: Transition Design via product offering: ToDo - a conversation starting card game | Game of Loans - a super fun physical and digital experience | Align - a CRM, learning and decision making interface for counselors, parents and students.
Design type: Research, Behavior Change, Business, Service, Game
This course, run as a mock agency, is a team studio between MDES candidates in their first and second years. As firm leaders, second year MDES candidates organized the firm to execute an end-to-end design thinking production cycle from recruiting and co-design workshops to ideation, user-testing and business design. Second years leadership roles include: HR, Payroll, Chief Design Officer, Asst. Chief Design Officer and VP of Product. As VP of Product, I worked with the Chief Design Officer to manage logistics as the shape and scope of our team structure, road map and offering shifted. Then, I designed a go-to-market strategy and sustainable business model for the offering through a pro forma. In addition to their leadership roles, second year student also acted as designers and coaches on first year design teams. I led the card game team.
Marketing Innovation, MIT Sloan
Solution: mrkt.ai - commercial voice AI for in-store search. We pivoted a technology that failed to resonate with users to a new industry through qualitative and quantitative research. download the marketing plan for more details.
Design type: Design Research, Interaction Design
This course shows how a core of marketing frameworks are applied to business cases through instructed class discussion, while team-based design research and product marketing components run parallel.
Integration Lab, MassArt and Design
Company: McGraw Hill Education
Solution: Data Product Development for a Persona
Design type: User Experience
Rapid Prototyping for Innovation Districts, MIT
Solution: Participatory Design Algorithm for CityScope
Design type: Experience Design and Interaction Design
Integration Lab, MassArt and Design
Company: Fidelity Labs
Target: Women
Solution: Baby Sitters’ App—a financial literacy tool and intervention
Design type: User Experience and Behavior Change
Experience Design Lab, MassArt and Design
Company: Boston Public Library, KBLIC
Focus: Innovation Space
Solution: Trumping up Implicit Bias— intersectional testing and growth tool
Design type: User Experience and Behavior Change
Brand Development and Service Design
Experience Design Lab II
Company: Cambridge Trust
Solution: Cambridge Trust Red
Design type: Research, Experience
Augmented Reality Experience Hack-a-thon
Solution: Over Hear, Elective Sound Spaces,
Design type: Extended Reality Experience
Integration Lab, MassArt and Design
Company: Community Solutions
Solution: A Process to Galvanize the Community in the Hartford Promise Zone
Design type: Organizational