In addition to design research work, I also do communication design and knowledge translation work.

Youth Centre Service Design
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Youth Centre Service Design

Just as the methodology of design can be used to develop objects, buildings, logos or posters, it can also be applied to service development. Service design is a user-centric, multidisciplinary and evidence-based approach to the development of services.
I applied the tools of service design to revamp a rural youth center that was not fully meeting the needs of the most vulnerable youth in the community.

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Beyond the Mean
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Beyond the Mean

This short motion graphic animation was inspired by the Favreau, Everett (1996) paper on the importance of inspecting the tails of a statistical distribution before making generalizations about groups. It was created using Illustrator and AfterEffects.

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Birth Bingo
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Birth Bingo

Informed by literature reviews, conversations with stakeholders and direct observation in hospital birthing rooms, I created the Birth Bingo Card to capture the feeling of the Cascade of Interventions, one of the key mechanisms by which over-medicalization of birth takes place. This piece of knowledge translation is meant as a conversation starter around birth politics. I used the bingo card format to convey both how the cascade feels in the moment (a seemingly random yet constant accumulation of interventions resolving climactically by the birth of the baby) and the various forms it takes (the list of potential interventions implemented).

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A Migraine Personified
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A Migraine Personified

Knowledge Translation is often about information, but it can also be about feelings and experiences. Inspired by the work of White & Epston (1990) on narrative therapy, I pondered: “If my migraines were a person, what kind of person would it be?” I captured the answer in this series of self-ethnography knowledge translation illustrations.

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Good People Break Bad Laws
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Good People Break Bad Laws

Important reminder: good people break bad laws. You can buy this shirt (and other merch). But feel free to grab a Sharpie and write this public service announcement on objects of your choosing instead. Wear it at the next protest or get the coffee mug version to start conversations at the office.

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