Tradecraft
Helping professionals design
their next career move
ROLE
Head of Design
SCOPE
Learning Design
TIMEFRAME
2018-2020
CHALLENGE
3 years in 3 months
As Head of Design, I was tasked with updating and managing recurring three-month in-person intensives that help professionals break into product design. Responsibilities included curriculum design for technical and soft skills, as well as managing an agency that placed participants in high-growth startup roles for real-world experience.
IMPACT
Designing how to
break into tech
200
Designers trained to add value to companies
50+
Projects with high-growth startups
34
Workshops curated and delivered
18
Three-month cohorts completed
4
Adjuncts managed and trained
curriculum
Beyond the basics
TOOLS OF THE TRADE
Excellence is a habit, so let's templatize it
Learning By Design
Expertise, deconstructed
From Design Thinking to Design Doing
A framework is
worth 1,000 lessons
Credits
Russ Klusas - Founder
Nick deWilde - Managing Partner
Ariane Mohamadi - Head of Careers
Joy Roy - Project Facilitator
Zac Halbert - Former Head of Design
Jot Dhaliwal - Adjunct
Jess Lam - Adjunct
Amy Weibel - Adjunct
UP NEXT
D.tech &
Stanford d.school
Cultivating creative confidence in high schools
LEARNING DESIGN | FACILITATION | BRANDING
Funded by a grant from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to accelerate Design Tech High's (d.tech) implementation of new learning models, I was brought in as a Designer in Residence for 8 months to collaborate with the Stanford d.school to (1) improve d.tech's design programming for students; and (2) create various resources to help staff adopt design thinking as a change management process.
