DESIGN

Rural Futures Deck

A card deck for generative, collective imagining, brimming with poetic inspiration.

Co-created with Hi-Vis Agency and Springboard for the Arts’ Rural Regenerator Fellows
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Tokyo Seeds

At a design residency with Japan’s national train company, I researched and pitched community engagement strategy to the company’s culture leaders.

Yes, it was a little bit like MTV’s The Real World for designers.

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End of Life Times

A community newspaper exploring death and dying, in an effort to live more fully.

For Reimagine.
Illustration by Rob Moss Wilson
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Dropbox Culture Kits

Dropbox.Design’s Culture Kits are open-source resources for the design community.

Personal Voice Workbook: for introspection, exploration, and finding your voice.
Diversity and Inclusion Toolkit: for working towards more diverse and inclusive culture at work and beyond.

Team Values Toolkit: for teams to align and establish common values.

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Research at Dropbox

As the dedicated designer for the Research Team at Dropbox, I helped user researchers transform their complex findings into clear, narrative artifacts for product teams.

I also created a tangible library of engaging tools and materials for co-creative user research workshops.

Illustration by Rob Moss Wilson

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Virtual First User Journeys

Day-in-the-life maps to help employees understand their new relationships to the office.

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Future-of-Work Consulting

Creative consulting on ways to nurture community and build culture for newly decentralized teams.

Ideation, writing, design.
Illustration by Rob Moss Wilson

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Company Culture Workshop

An engaging, social, and playful workshop for every single employee of a large biotech corporation, to help drive meaningful adoption of new company-culture tenets.

With IDEO

21st Century Design Skills

A mainstage presentation on the Future of Work, for Dropbox Staff Researcher Jennifer Brook.

Presented at the the Awwwards Conference
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Open Engagement

Design direction for six iterations of an annual art conference, all with an eye for flexible, living identity systems and DIY modes of production.

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Jennifer Brook Identity

Visual identity and website for a brilliant multi-hyphenate design practitioner.

With Taryn Cowart and Sarah Baugh
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Presentations

Yes, I love making decks. The more complex the information, the better. The bigger the ideas, the better!

Sample slides from pitch decks, thought leadership, workshops, toolkits, All-Hands, visioning, and funding rounds.

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Lookbook

Playful visual projects for artists, musicians, creative businesses, and cultural organizations.

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