Double diamond

January 25, 2018

A visualization to help set expectations + vocab with non-designers.

I created this diagram [below] while working at Jackrabbit Mobile, to help explain the design process to coworkers and clients alike. I used the Double Diamond by Dan Nester as a jumping off point. When I shared that diagram with non-designers, I found that it was good at orienting people to the work I was doing, but it took a lot of explanation.

BASIC DIAGRAM TO OPEN CONVERSATION ABOUT DESIGN

I broke out the things non-designers wanted to know and created my own version of the Double Diamond:

What are the phases of design?
What happens in each of those phases?
When can we expect X deliverable?

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Sex Ed Research & Hackathon

May 18, 2017

Findings from research on sexual health that informed a project at ATX Hack for Change 2017.

Note: Not entirely safe for work.

TALKING TO WOMEN ABOUT SEXUAL HEALTH

In the fall of 2015, Celine Thibault, David Bill and I worked on an ethnographic research project focused on the sexual health of low income women. We spoke to 16 different women from all walks of life: nurses, sex educators, waitresses, strippers, artists, christians, teenagers, and mothers. Everyone's experience with sex and sexuality is deeply personal. I'm grateful to all of the folks who shared their stories with us.

FoTO

November 8, 2016

An idea for a crowd-sourced photo app that I can’t decide to love or hate.

I had a few photography incidents recently that made me think about how photography fits into people's lives:

A friend was driving me home, and had her phone in her lap. At a stoplight, she showed the instagram photo she'd been looking at. (That phone was confiscated for the rest of the trip.)
I needed a photo of myself, and the only good ones I could find were self portraits. (In a past life I was a photographer).
I went to dinner at another friend's house and she was lamenting the amazing lives of far-away friends she was seeing on social media. I told her my photography mantra: No one takes photos when they're really engaged with the people around them. Some people can remind themselves to take photos when they want to capture a great time, but it generally takes everyone out of the moment.

I used these observations to play around with an idea for a photo service that I find simultaneously terrifying and... kind of cool.