[sparks, as described by friends, clients and collaborators, circa 2023]
focus + expertise: experience design + creative direction + qualitative research + ideation + design thinking + UX strategy + service design + facilitation
A sampling of past clients:
Helping humans connect—with themselves, with our planet, with each other—in unexpected and delightful ways.
sparks gets fired up about building strange and enchanted worlds that provoke new perspectives, elicit behavioral shifts and imagine better futures. They also like to experiment.
Curious what projects they have on for 2025?
As an immersive experience designer, sparks crafts unexpected experiences that leverage wonder, play and radical collective imagination to provoke systemic change. They are a 2024 graduate of Odyssey Works’ Experience Design Certificate Program and an Emerging Talent member of the World Experience Organization.
As a design researcher and UX strategist, sparks partners with organizations to help create, evaluate and improve experiences for humans. They've been conducting people research, facilitating workshops and designing experiences in the big tech, government, nonprofit and education sectors for the past decade. They've led generative and evaluative research initiatives for a variety of projects from small startups to Fortune 500 companies. As part of their pledge through Clean Creatives, they happily decline any contracts with the fossil fuel industry.
Contact
Based in Portland, OR (USA)
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© alt-yellow 2023
delightfully unexpected.