I work with small businesses and internal teams creating pitches. These are a mix of projects from ecological impact reports, marketing plans and VC funding pitches. I work with clients in a variety of capacities including identifying opportunities, defining a narrative that resonated with their intended audience and presentations to bring their work to life.

Clients: Go Pro, Facebook, Google, Twitter, Everlane, G2 Insurance, Which Winery, The X Prize, Mckesson ect.

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Client: OpenIDEO

My Role: Design Thinking Workshop Facilitation, Social Media Engagement Campaign, Web Design 

Operation Efficiency Consultancy

Project description Our team was brought in to help Impact Hub take advantage of their success by implementing operational protocol to boost efficiency and enable them to scale. Engaging in the hub community through strategic conversations, individual interviews and observation highlighted areas of redundancy and opportunities to improve. Our recommendations focused on streamlining communications and practices to create alignment and efficiency. Using strategic models and diagrams we helped the Impact Hub team understand the experiences of their co-working communities. Together we developed repeatable frameworks to enhance the current experience in a manner that was consistent with their values and mission. Specifically bringing clarity and consistency into the communications around service offerings.

Client: Impact Hub Oakland

My Role: I led the design of new web mock-ups for their events and offerings. Conducted space use analysis and improvement strategy.

Partners: Team: Nicole Shiflett, Marimar Penalva, Jenn Mulher, Whitney Bush, Kelsey Kamm

A Video Conversation App for Brand Customer Engagement  

Product Development

PODIUUM is a platform where brands can draw customers to their websites from social media platforms and engage them in a conversation. Podiuum does this through a video messaging application that pulls customers in to interact on brand platforms from their social media accounts enabling the customer to respond easily using video..

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Client: Podiuum

My Role: UI Strategist on small team for the Podiuum app. Responsible for wireframes, prototypes,  social media presence and player development.  Worked closely with developers to create comprehensive UX. Created promotional videos & marketing material.

Representation and Access For Fair Immigration
In the face of the immigration crisis and the rocket docket problem facing the California court system our team came together to develop a solution.  RAFFI addresses the needs of two very different groups of people in the United States: immigrants who are detained without being provided legal counsel, and qualified lawyers who are weighed down with crippling debt and struggling in an unbalanced job market. It also provides a benefit to society by saving taxpayer money, keeping families together, and maintaining stability for immigrant employees and employers.

My Role: Market Research, Stakeholder Interviews, Ethnography, Design Strategy, Solution Design

Partners: Andy Greenwood, Adrienne Brown, Julie Grant, Carley Jacobson, Kelsey Kamm

Shipping Container Housing Units for Special Events in Wild Places 

Product + Service Development

Base Beyond buildings are comprised of a combination of modular units. Our structures are built from 20’ or 40’ high cube shipping containers. This allows them to be easily transported. Manufactured from recycled containers in San Francisco, CA.

Our buildings are designed to function in any climate from arctic cold to bayou humidity. This allows the customer to have their same customized building delivered to them and providing a comfortable interior environment in the harshest of conditions.

Base Beyond buildings delivered to your location, and supplied with fresh linens and amenities upon delivery. Per your stipulation

TURNING DISASTER INTO A POSITIVE

Service Development
The company seeks out new solutions to the massively ineffective global aid market. Through customer research and in-person interviews, the team seeks to truly understand and empathize with what locals need in the days, weeks, and months following a natural disaster. 

We delivered a repeatable, scalable model of economic stimulus through an incubator style training initiative. By developing a multi-tiered system starting with local engagement and open communication, we were able to create a strategic framework that would allow for improved quality of life and opportunity for those affected by disasters for years to come. 

Project to educate campuses about the environmental and health impacts of plastic water bottles. A collaboration with Treasure8 we created a framework for eliminating water bottle usage and prototyped our process on several education campuses. Success of initial test included food service providers switching to boxed water and administrations incorporating IDEO design filling stations. This is conjunction with education campaigns and buy in from student body created a replicable approach for Treasure8 to implement a the large tech campuses in Silicon Valley. Next step Google!

Client: Treasure8 

My Role: Research, Business Development + Client Outreach, Stake Holder Interviews, Service Design, Visual Design, Print Design.

Partners: Elizabeth Kukka, Julieta Collart