Top Offerings
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Systems thinking is is a great tool to make sense of complex issues, such as prison reform and mental health, and offers us holistic way to investigate factors and interactions to influence your social impact strategy.
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Service design affords us a way to unpack how maximize your company’s effectiveness in pursuing the impact work you wish to achieve, creating operational coherence for the macro- and micro-level for your organization.
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For organizations who are passionate about aligning your product and services with ESG objectives, sustainable design considers the environmental, social, and economic impacts from the initial phase through to the end of life.
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Design thinking affords us a starting framework when we design something new, to deepen our knowledge of the nuances of your market opportunity and uncover holistic ways to answer your customer needs.
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With social impact strategy, we will step through planning, measuring, and attributing positive social change to an organization's work and actions. My skills in this area also include business design, planning, marketing, and identity.
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Using an integrated approach to designing new products, we’ll take a systematic look at all aspects relevant for the design of your new product. My focus is primarily in industrial design, where topics such as function, form, use, life-cycle, production, sales, and sustainability are crucial.
Case Studies
Do you have an idea worth building? Are you looking to maximize the impact of your social innovations? Are you seeking to create services for the greater good? Tap into power of design with me. Together, we can create the products, services, and strategies to build a better world.
The following is a selection of case studies exploring design strategy and research to accelerate social impact. All diagrams, designs, and writing are my own unless otherwise cited and annotated.
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Design Strategy: Bathfood
A 10-week business strategy proposal for a social-impact organization with a focus on career training for LGBTQ+ youth through the development and sale of bath products. Strategy includes design. Strategy includes market research, product offering development, supply chain analysis, customer base studies, and more.
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Design Research & Strategy: Community Enrichment
Ethnographic and community based research for the Minneapolis neighborhood Whittier, investigating ways that design thinking can chart ways to revitalize the neighborhood’s rich restaurant history in South Minneapolis.
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Design Strategy: TAO Collective
A community proposal seeking to monetize and incentivize membership for social and monetary support for fine artists. This proposal examines alternative business models using systems thinking to analyze financial flow through the arts and conceptualize a new regenerative and stable way to secure funding for the arts.
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Design Research: TDNDY
Design research proposal for a non-profit seeking to create new avenues of support and community-building for survivors of sexual assault. This case study uses design-thinking to uncover ways to look at the human-centered issues, such as persona, body storming, and empathy mapping, and culminates with life cycle analysis to ensure products proposed align with sustainable development goals.
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Capstone: Creative Industry & Climate
An excerpt of my in-depth analysis on creative business models and how the right business model can be used to accelerate climate-positive communication through the creative industry. I applied sustainable design frameworks to inform a design strategy for business development of a new organization supporting creative innovation, using the insights gained during research.
