Tradecraft

Helping professionals design
their next career move

ROLE

Head of Design

SCOPE

Learning Design

TIMEFRAME

2018-2020

Tradecraft_CROPPED2

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

TC_Curriculum

TOOLS OF THE TRADE

Excellence is a habit, so let's templatize it

TC_Templates-1

Learning By Design

Expertise, deconstructed

TC_Principles-1

From Design Thinking to Design Doing

A framework is
worth 1,000 lessons

TC_Frameworks

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. 

dschool_allslides_beigeBG

Don't be a stranger

Let's talk about education, design, mindfulness, or play.