Teaching samples
LBJ School of Public Affairs (2021, 2022)
Visual Communication for Policy and Program Management
In public policy, visual communication is often associated solely with displaying quantitative data. This presentation expands this definition of visual communication to include effective tools for displaying descriptive information, such as process maps and diagrams, with a focus on how visualizations of both quantitative and qualitative information can best support decision-making.
Health Experience Design Conference (2021)
From Intervention to Interaction: Applying Behavior Change Techniques to Design
Behavior change techniques (BCTs) are well documented and well researched, but there are relatively few resources for how to translate evidence-based behavior change strategies into granular digital design components and interactions. Dustin DiTommaso and I developed this workshop to help designers working in digital health bridge this gap between evidence and interaction.
Health Experience Design Conference (2018, 2019)
Designing & Measuring Engagement in DBCIs
Designers often consider engagement to be an outcome in and of itself. We track measures like page views, clicks, and time spent on a page. Though important, these measures do not capture information about what is happening off of the screen.
Dustin DiTommaso and I created this workshop for the Health Experience Design Conference to highlight the importance of mapping digital interactions to real-world outcomes when creating digital behavior change interventions.
Action Design Boston (2018)
Let’s Review: An Introduction to Incorporating Scientific Evidence into the Design Process
Action Design Boston is a chapter of Bescy (formerly known as the Action Design Network), a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting behavioral science and design for social impact.
My goal for this lecture for the Boston Bescy Chapter was to communicate the value of seeking empirical evidence when designing for social impact, rather than relying on intuition alone. It introduces designers to the how and why of literature reviews and provides practical guidance on how to integrate them into the design research process.
General Assembly (2018, 2019)
Behavior Change Design Primer
This guest lecture on behavior change design for Boston’s General Assembly User Experience Design Course served as students’ introduction to behavior change design.
I embedded activities to give students a chance to work through key concepts in behavior change design, including selecting desired outcomes of the intervention, prioritizing target behaviors, and identifying barriers to behavior change.