It all started off with the Design Thinking Bootcamp at the Stanford D-School... This class was a real eye-opener in introducing me to a robustly tested design methodology when creating anything at all.  And boy, did I have a ton of opportunities to create in the LDT program.

Projects.

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There were several design projects that I worked on :

• A need-finding project for IT training and career certifications at Cisco
• A middle school Physics game designed with Prof. Paul Kim
• Inexpensive and hygienic chopstick designed for rural Indians
• An e-commerce solution that leveraged social recommendations

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Curricula
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As part of Prof.Denise Pope's class on  Curriculum Design, my team (Sara Ittelson, Sara Jaxheimer and I) designed a human trafficking curriculum for use by the Program on Human Rights (PHR) at the Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. The curriculum was designed for high school students, and was to be made available to schools in the form of an open-source toolkit. Besides raising awareness about the facts of human trafficking, it laid out a framework for students to think about the meaning of the freedoms they themselves enjoy.

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Studies

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I designed two studies:

I'm interested in the role of comics in education. So, as a part of Prof. Dan Schwartz's Cognition & Learning class, I designed a study that compared and contrasted comic books versus video as media for effecting long-term memory.

In Prof. Denise Pope's class on Qualitative Research, my team designed and executed a qualitative research study to understand whether the characteristics of a combatant are naturally inherent or can they be acquired? We were especially curious about the effectiveness of Army training in the acquisition of those characteristics.

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