Amanda Sanchez Design

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		<title>Teaching Work Landing</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2021 21:32:46 +0000</pubDate>

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Heyo! Call me Sánchez—
Design Educator who believes in teaching to transgress╰(⊡-⊡)و✎⮹&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;


✐ View my fluid teaching thoughts, approaches, and beliefs →

✍︎ Readings that have influenced me&#38;nbsp;→✄ Curated resources on decolonizing the classroom, design pedagogy, and ways of learning →
☺︎ I am also a practicing multi-disciplinary researcher &#38;amp; designer →


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[Upcoming] Intro to Design for Interactions
✏︎ cmu / ❋Fall 2021 / ✍︎ TA; TBA
🔗 Syllabi &#38;amp; Student Work
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Communication Design Fundamentals 
✏︎ cmu / 


✺Spring 2021 / ✍︎ TA; Hannah Kim
🔗 Syllabi &#38;amp; Student Work

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Communication Design Fundamentals 
✏︎ cmu / 


✹Fall 2020 / ✍︎ TA; Hannah Kim
🔗 Syllabi &#38;amp; Student Work
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Communication Design Fundamentals 
✏︎ cmu / 


✸Spring 2020 / ✍︎ TA; Alice Fang
🔗 Syllabi &#38;amp; Student Work


[UPCOMING] Introduction to Design for Interactions✏︎ cmu / ❋Fall 2021 / ✍︎ TA; TBA

🔗 Syllabus, Student Work, Teaching Materials


	Communication Design Fundamentals ✏︎ cmu / ❋Spring 2021 / ✍︎ TA; Hannah Kim
🔗 Syllabus, Student Work, Teaching Materials


	Communication Design Fundamentals ✏︎ cmu / ❋Fall 2020 / ✍︎ TA; Hannah Kim
🔗 Syllabus, Student Work, Teaching Materials
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		<title>Design Work Landing</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2021 18:02:54 +0000</pubDate>

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	a.Sánchez
	︎&#38;nbsp; / ︎ / ︎ 


Heyo! Call me Sánchez&#38;nbsp;*:･ﾟ✧&#38;nbsp;٩(◕‿◕｡)۶&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; 
Human-Centered* Service Designer &#38;amp; Researcher with a focus on improving public benefit services, justice, and accessibility. Currently a design researcher at Nava PBC working to improve the way people access paid leave. they/them. First-Gen &#38;amp; Latinx &#38;amp; Yinzer. Nothing comes without its world ✌︎
Design / Teaching / About / Resume&#38;nbsp;
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	Investigating historically marginalized populations’ barriers to utilizing the Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave program

Using equitable research methods to understand and navigate underserved communities and their barriers to utilized paid leave.&#38;nbsp;


🤝 Community &#38;amp; Data-Driven Investigations &#38;amp; Building Relationships→ 
	✸ Nava PBC
✍︎ MA PFML
✏︎ Service Design, Research, Ops, Community
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	Uncovering &#38;amp; Analyzing Glocal Services


Using participatory research methods to map local Sleep &#38;amp; Respiratory Care services to help Philips nurture local services and scale globally.


🤔 Optimization, Universalization &#38;amp; Standardization&#38;nbsp; walk into a bar (yikes!)→ 
	✸ Philips Sleep &#38;amp; Respiratory Care
✍︎ Local &#38;amp; Global Services
✏︎ Service Design, Research, Healthcare


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	Navigating Mental Health in Orange County, CA 


Co-Designing with healthcare professionals and community members to build upon existing infrastructures of healthcare communication

🍊Take a left at the library, then a right at the weird tree →
	✸ Orange County Deptartment of Health✍︎ Participatory Research, Healthcare


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	otr(x)s —in Situ
    
Mattering Eco-Spatial Politics and the Making of Earth-Beings; A Master’s Thesis &#38;amp; Interrogation


💥 Dismantling the master’s climate tools→&#38;nbsp;
	✸ My Brain
✍︎ Master’s Thesis @ Carnegie Mellon 
✏︎ Research for Design, Critical Design

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	Deforestation in Laurentia
    Using the Transition Design framework to assess the complexities of Deforestation in the Laurentian Region.

🌳 If a tree falls, and no one is around to hear it →
	✸ Laurentian Bioregion
✏︎ Transition Design &#38;amp; Research
✍︎SES Mapping &#38;amp; Politics


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	Kwilt; Resilient Hyperlocal Communities
    
Building a physical and digital platform for communities of place &#38;amp; practice
🍋Repairing&#38;nbsp; + reviving the spirit of the local lemonade stand → 
	✸Index Awards✍︎ Design Research, UX/UI


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	Towards Socially Smart Cities
    Housing, homelessness, and placelessness in Pittsburgh🏡 People need more than just a roof over their heads→

	✸ City of Pittsburgh✍︎ Transition Research &#38;amp; Design


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	entomo—
    
Exploring the demystification of&#38;nbsp; barriers to scientific participation via the human senses &#38;amp; technology

🐛️Creepy Crawlies This Way →
	✸ Carnegie Museum of Natural History
 ✏︎Research, Realities, UX/UI


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Bringing Beam Back
Adapting Allstate beyond the physical and towards digital insurance &#38;amp; cybersecurity
💾️ Why ABC123 as a password isn’t cutting it →
	✸ Allstate Digital Safety✏︎ IA Collaborative✍︎ Design Systems
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	Sonny
A speculative inquiry into bringing virtual assistants to the National Parks of America
🌵️ For those recovering from stressful family vacations →
	✸ National Parks Service✍︎ VA, UI/UX, Animation


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	Free Press Futures
Identifying opportunities &#38;amp; barriers of journalistic inquiry in an age of misinformation, defunding, and silencing
📰 NEWS AT 10; THERE IS NO NEWS, HERE HAVE AN AD→&#38;nbsp;

	✸ FPF_PARSONS; New York City✍︎ Workshop Facilitation &#38;amp; Visual


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	Access to Equitable Care during Covid-19 [IN PROGRESS]
An ongoing investigation of the access and lack of access marginalized communities and individuals face when confronted with Covid-19.
🧪vick’s vaporrub saves lives (and money) →
	✸ Philips✍︎ Healthcare, Design Research


	✧･ﾟ⚘: *✧･ﾟ:⚘* View Archived Work (2012–2017)&#38;nbsp;✧･ﾟ⚘: *✧･ﾟ:⚘*

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		<title>Archive</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2021 18:44:18 +0000</pubDate>

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	a.Sánchez
	Design / Teaching / About / Resume


IA Collaborative (2017–2019)✦ HumanScale 2.0; Democratizing Human-Centered Tools
✦ USAA; Building a Voice Assistant (Currently under NDA)
✦ Capital Group; Building Financial Tools for Advisors✦ IA Collaborative; Redesigning &#38;amp; Rebuilding our Company Website&#38;nbsp;


University of Illinois @ Chicago (2012–2017)&#38;nbsp; ☞✦ Burn, Baby, Burn; Visualizing the 1969 Watt’s Rebellion✦ Bitch Film Festival✦ MOBL; Building a 3D Modular Typeface✦ Attachment; Exploring the Relationship between tradtional physical publishing + post-digital posting
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ICFF Fellowship


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		<title>entomo—</title>
				
		<link>https://asanchez.design/entomo</link>

		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2021 18:02:53 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Amanda Sanchez Design</dc:creator>

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		<description>a.Sánchez

Design / Teaching / About / Resume
	
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	Demystifying barriers to scientific participation via the human senses at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History


	TeamAndrew LeTourneauAmanda Sanchez
 
	AdvisorMatt PrindibleKyuha ShimDaphne Peters

	TypeUX DesignEnvironmental DesignParticipatory Design
	Timeline5 Weeks
	

	Overview
	Entomo is the end result of a studio project in my first semester of grad school. We were asked to research, design, and prototype an experience that would be relevant and situated within the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. We were asked to incorporate an emerging technology into our work and heavily consider the digital and non-digital touchpoints. This project was done solo with feedback from advisors mentioned above. Special shoutout to Andrew LeTourneau for rendering the spinny beetle for me.&#38;nbsp;

	
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		<title>Landing Page</title>
				
		<link>https://asanchez.design/Landing-Page</link>

		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2021 19:12:30 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Amanda Sanchez Design</dc:creator>

		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://asanchez.design/Landing-Page</guid>

		<description>
	&#60;img width="768" height="690" width_o="768" height_o="690" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ded1991afaa1ff7555529d94358b0774ba43c20fa88d0785043487e319aba743/IMG_0017.jpg" data-mid="112563690" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/768/i/ded1991afaa1ff7555529d94358b0774ba43c20fa88d0785043487e319aba743/IMG_0017.jpg" /&#62;
	☺︎ 𝔥𝔬𝔴𝔡𝔶 𝔭𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔫𝔢𝔯 ✌︎&#38;nbsp;My name is Amanda Sánchez.&#38;nbsp; I am a participatory, justice, &#38;amp; equity-centered designer &#38;amp; more-than-human researcher. Visual Design Educator. Climate &#38;amp; Ecologically conscious. Tentacular thinker. Systems Interventionist. Cultural &#38;amp; Biological Diversity focused. Currently @ Carnegie Mellon pursuing a Master of Design in Interaction Design. Dog Mom. Nothing comes without its world.&#38;nbsp;

Design &#38;amp; Research→

Teaching →


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		<title>About Me</title>
				
		<link>https://asanchez.design/About-Me</link>

		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2021 18:30:38 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Amanda Sanchez Design</dc:creator>

		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://asanchez.design/About-Me</guid>

		<description>a.Sánchez︎&#38;nbsp; / ︎ / ︎/ ︎


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✲ﾟ｡.(✿╹◡╹)ﾉ☆.｡₀:*ﾟ✲ﾟ*:₀｡
 Hello! Nice to meet you. My name is Amanda Sánchez. Originally from Chicago but currently in Pittsburgh. I graduated with a Master of Design from the Carnegie Mellon School of Design May 2021. I spent the last two years of coursework and research digging deeply in the ontologies and implications of design at different scales. For the past 3 semesters, I have also been the lead instructor for a Communication Design Fundamentals course - it’s been one of many lights in my life. Previously a Designer @ IA Collaborative&#38;nbsp;where I worked mostly on digital products. I spent 2.5 years emphasizing the importance and role of design systems while fostering collaborative relationships between our designers and developers to create thoughtful products and services within an agile environment. Before that, I became a UIC Grad with a Bachelor of Graphic Design. where I explored a range of mediums and built a strong sense of intuiton for 2D form. Although the work I did in undergrad is more than 6 years old and no longer lives on my main site, you can click here to view my past.I hold a wealth of quality experiences navigating and attempting to understand the complexities of both the worlds we live in and the worlds others experience. I take an ecological approach to most things I do, meaning I accept the ambiguities that a more technical systems approach may be uncomfortable with.&#38;nbsp; If you’d like to read more about my ever-evolving lense on design, you can head here.&#38;nbsp;
Let’s tell each other stories, jokes, or get some tacos. You can view my resume if you’d like. You can also take a look at my medium blog where I reflect on things I’m learning about. If you’d like to get in touch you can e-mail me, message me on Linkedin, or send me a message via my personal carrier pigeon .&#38;nbsp;I am currently looking and open to opportunities!
Thanks for checking my work out, look forward to meeting you! 
(੭ ᐕ)੭*⁾⁾

Digital Tentacles→Are.Na→LinkedIn→Email→Resume


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		<title>otro(x) in situ</title>
				
		<link>https://asanchez.design/otro-x-in-situ</link>

		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2021 00:47:01 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Amanda Sanchez Design</dc:creator>

		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://asanchez.design/otro-x-in-situ</guid>

		<description>a.Sánchez

Design / Teaching / About / Resume
	

	otr(x)s —in Situ ✴︎ Mattering Eco-Spatial Politics and the Making of Earth-Beings; A Master’s Thesis by Amanda C. Sánchez


	TeamAmanda Sanchez
 
	AdvisorStuart Candy
	TypeResearch for Design
	TimelineF ‘20 – S ‘21
	

	Quick Links
	Below are a few quick links. You can view my final publication in the first link but if you’d like more context on the process I recommend watching the videos below that. It gives a quicker overview of where I’ve been and where my head was at.&#38;nbsp;
Thesis Digital Publication
→ This is where you’ll find my full thesis document; feedback + thoughts welcome

Topic Exploration Lightning Talk • March 2019
→ This is a presentation we gave with initial thoughts on what we wanted to explore, it was not recorded

Thesis Progress Review #1 • December 2020
→ A thesis progress review of our work thus far given December 2020

Thesis Progress Review #2 • March 2021
→ A thesis progress review of our work thus far given March 2021; 2 months before it was due


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		<title>Deforestation</title>
				
		<link>https://asanchez.design/Deforestation</link>

		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2021 00:47:29 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Amanda Sanchez Design</dc:creator>

		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://asanchez.design/Deforestation</guid>

		<description>a.Sánchez

Design / Teaching / About / Resume
	
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Understanding, Mapping, Speculating • Deforestation in the Appalachian Bioregion; A Transition Design Approach

	
	TeamAlexander Polzin
Amanda Sanchez
Jenny Xin
Mihika Bansal
Xiaoran Zhang
	AdvisorTerry Irwin
Gideon Kossoff
	TypeTransition Design
Systems Mapping
	TimelineSpring 2021
	

	Quick Links
	Over the course of this exploration, our team researched, documented, and synthesized each activity. You can find our collaborative pieces at this link. Each post has google drive access links to hi-res imagery of our maps.

Team Resilience Medium Publication
Activity 1 • Mapping Wicked Problems
Activity 2 • Mapping Stakeholder Relations
Activity 3 • Multi-Level Persepctive • Mapping Evolutions
Activity 4 •&#38;nbsp;Backcasting, Mile-stoning, &#38;amp; Developing Future Visions 
Activity 5 •&#38;nbsp;Designing an Ecology of Interventions 
Final Presentation [Was Not Recorded]


	Overivew
	This project was a foray into applying the Transition Design approach to the wicked problem of Deforestation in the Appalachian Bioregion. The process includes systems mapping, deep research, and wrestling with the complexities of hyperobjects and subsytems. Through methodological mapping approaches, we explored this wicked problem every lense we were afforded to find through our research. The Transition Design approach allows us to critique and also see the impacts of hyperobjects such as capitalism, racism, and globalization and the actors that participate in the ongoing colonial project of stripping not just the land but people of their livelihoods.&#38;nbsp;
 
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		<title>Kwilt</title>
				
		<link>https://asanchez.design/Kwilt</link>

		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2021 17:43:39 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Amanda Sanchez Design</dc:creator>

		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://asanchez.design/Kwilt</guid>

		<description>a.Sánchez

Design / Teaching / About / Resume
	&#60;img width="4000" height="1429" width_o="4000" height_o="1429" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5c57515f8c164081932b06c9b56fee3f892e1b3dbc781e3c51002b3cf2b121bb/1_DkMcolLPv2x7noZ0OZ8Nsw.png" data-mid="115803109" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5c57515f8c164081932b06c9b56fee3f892e1b3dbc781e3c51002b3cf2b121bb/1_DkMcolLPv2x7noZ0OZ8Nsw.png" /&#62;

	
From Community Gardens to Makerspaces; Weaving a platform for communities of place &#38;amp; practice towards tightly knitted ecological relationships

	
	TeamChristianne Francovich
Bhakti Shah
Ranu Karanpurina
Amanda Sanchez
	Advisor
Peter Scupello
Arnold Wasserman
	TypeDesign Research
UI/UX Design
	Timeline13 Weeks
	

	🔗 Quick Links 🔗
	Over the course of the studio project, my teammates and I kept a blog documenting our weekly progress. Below I included the link to our publication. There are 17 weeks worth of content which can be quite a lot to work through so I highlighted a few key milestones our team was proud of. Enjoy!
Team Circle • Design to Improve Life Medium Publication
Week 3 • Field Visits
Week 5 • Research Synthesis
Week 10 • Generative Research 2.0 ; the week we went into lockdown.
Week 17 • Houston We Have Lift Off!

	Overview
	Kwilt is a studio project in close collaboration with Index Awards. This project explores the possibilites design and design research&#38;nbsp; have in approaching one of the UN defined Sustainable Development Goals. This project was ‘interrupted’ by the onset of the pandemic and is worth nothing the pivots our team had to make mid-project. It was a wild ride!
I think it’s also worth noting that the case study format can be quite reductive and do a terrible job at displaying all of the loops, circle-turning, and backtracking a team has to do when working on such a complex problem. To get a better idea of those squiggles, please read through our medium posts! For a faux-ish view on this process, read on!
Come and enjoy our Wins &#38;amp; Struggles in our Studio Project! Love, Team Circle

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(don’t judge my looks on the right, it was very very early where I was 🙃, we’re global baby!)


	Index &#38;amp; the Sustainable Development Goals

	The introduction of this project laid out some ground work of ‘constraints’ or rather considerations we had to involve in our overall process. Our project or rather our research and investigation had to work toward a “solution” or intervention that paid special attention to 1-3 Sustainable Development Goals; this kept us humble in our pursuit to come up with something that could be helpful rather than just being made for the sake of being made.&#38;nbsp;
The 3 Goals That We Initially Identified Were;
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Design to Improve Life; But Which Life? Who’s Life?
The Index Awards theme for that year revolved around “Design to Improve Life” we used that directive to dissect and understand the different meanings and dimensions that little phrase could afford or represent. It helped us find common ground in our different perspectives and ways of being in the world. These definitions we began to define helped us to begin to dig deeply into Index’s intentions and our own assumptions and Intentions.&#38;nbsp;

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	Exploratory Phase
	Territory MappingWere keen on building out a space for us to explore in that tended to the SDG framework but also interested us and was relevant to the work we were somewhat knowledgeble. This problem space definition was also predicated upon our access to certain resources.


Talkin’ to Experts &#38;amp; Users
After we had a solid idea of the problem area we wanted to push further into, we sought out folks in the fields of interests to gain more insight into both pleasure and pain points they experience in their day to day. We also interviewed and chatted with both academics and folks who actively had experience the ‘customer’ end of these identified spaces.&#38;nbsp;Our goal via these interviews was to begin to understand the pain and as well as pleasure points of the interesections we had identified in our previous exploration .Went out and did some in the field vists, we did 4 farm observations (Garfield Community Farm, Braddock Farm, Octopus Garden, Hilltop Garden)
We spoke with;&#38;nbsp;
3 experts (PhD Students3 volunteers1 community farm owner3 non-produt workers @ Grounded
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Via these interviews we learned a few main things; the main one being “it is not just about food, it is about building community of stewards. We realized that food was a common thread amongst all of this, it was being used as a tool to normalize and encourage this level and type of participation. Food, the common equalizier! Who would’ve thought?!
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Secondary Research &#38;amp; Literature ReviewsBeyond our primary research we also investigated existing research, content, and literature. We wanted to make sure we weren’t reproducing any work others have done - this could both save us some time and also prevent us from assuming we are the *only* ones doing this. Pittsburgh had recently released a PGH Reslience document, we took note of the different dimensions they had surfaced to categorize and understand the complexisites of building resilience within a community.
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	Pulling Threads
	Exploratory Phase InsightsVia this primary and secondary investigation , we used affinity mapping to being to surface synergies &#38;amp; tensions in our prelimary round of exploratory research. Below are the 5 insights we ended up with.
 
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These insights started to help us shape the different stakeholders that would hopefully be relevant to the audience we wanted to design for. We narrowed in on this because we realized a universalization of experience was going to be difficult given the resources we had. This was also problematic but we tried to resolve this by relying on our global community - a community that i’ll circle back around to in just a bit. Via our interviews and investigations of stakeholders in the process we identified ‘types’ or ‘categories’ that people could fall into that were defined by this broad term, “community”. We discovered that you could be part of different scales and purposes of ‘community’ two of them being a community of practice and a community of place. We realized the interactions between the two kept overlapping in the interviews and experiences people told us about. 
Gaps We Wanted to Continue to PursueWe identified 3 gaps that existed between the two groups. We saw a communication gap, an expectation gap and a knowledge (sharing) gap. This gap that seemingly needed to be bridged became the new focal point of our investigation.
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	Generative
	To create more understanding between all of these gaps and barriers to entry we dove into our next phase, our Evaluative research. We were bound together with a set of hypothesis and began to co-develop activities for workshop facilitation. Then Covid sent everyone and everything into lockdown.

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Our focal point of briding gaps between communities of practice and communities of place became difficult to engage with....while the world was seemingly collapsing. Given the circumstances, and the fact that we were now all in different parts of the world, we decided to try and understand how to design in the face of a crisis. Our work was still extremely relevant, but the very real reality of crisis mode situations impacting how we thought about our designs was part of the process now. Because of this shift we had to reconsider a few aspects of our research; who we were designing for and with, what context this was being done in (online), what our new “goal” was, and who are target groups were - again, in the context of a crisis like covid. Our workshop purpose was built out as a statement to keep us clearn and focused; Our Workshop Purpose is To Understand...what are the needs and gaps in communities during a crisi; in a way that...surfaces how individuals are participating inc ommunities; So That...we can build resilient communities for the future.[Principles of Microslidaruty]While the entirety of our lives shifted we had stumbled across a few principles that we thoughts were extremely relevant to the underlying ideological framework we wanted our direction to take on. These principles seemed like relevant guidelines and traits to a reslient community, especially in the face of a crisis. We want to expose what these relations currently looked like and could like through our workshops. Workshop Activites &#38;amp; Documentation

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Insight Thread Pulling

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	Tying Threads &#38;amp; Sorting Out Knots
	Through this new knowledge and new insights we derived from our workshops we began to see some clarity in redefining our problem statement + subquestions.
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	Evaluative
	Wait...So What the Heck are We Doing Again?!
With Covid shutdowns and global collapse somewhat rattling our bones and keeping us on our toes, we decided based on our last presentation that we needed to recalibrate and pull our principles &#38;amp; directives into a more succinct format. This helped us nail down our purpose, and our reason, and our hopes.&#38;nbsp;
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Redefining or Identifying the Who
We began to build out archetypes and identify the different dimensions of participation that with being a part of a community. We included core needs and pain points, looking back I wish we had also identified pleasure points, what was working for them?

We had narrowed down our initial concepts to building some sort of platform - a social-media-eque type of platform. We began to think about how our paltform would interact with the other entities in our community ecosystm. Understanding that we began to also build a highlevel overview of the different phases our application would touch on to get us to the goal of participation. we had to consider the motivations, the purposess, extrinsic and intristic.

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Points of Entry
An important part of platform building that we often don’t see is actually doing outreach. Since this platform was supposed to be personable and not feel like a big tech company was coming for you. We were inspired by Candy Chang, a community activist, and repurposed her approach to create doorhangers. The doorhangers served as a personal invitation to other community members to join you on this platform. The fact that a community member would have to phsyically write their name and put these doorhangers on someones door meant that there was a human involved, not just automated mailing.
 
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Along with the doorhangers was a website that folks could visit to learn more. We kept tabs on the amount of folks who visited the website. &#38;nbsp;
Understanding the Components &#38;amp; Flow
In tandem with understanding the different entry points, the different users, and the different platforms (both physical and digital) we began to have a better idea of what the user journey would look like. The user journey helped us identify important points of contact and where we could better build in feedback loops to keep users exited &#38;amp; engaged.&#38;nbsp;
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Prototyping 2 Distinct Directions
While this interaction and investigation to the entry and participation of the platform was helpful, the bulk of the work that we thought would tend to our larger issue was next.Because of time constraints we built out a lightweight framework to identify two quite different platforms that we could quickly protype and test.
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This process included identifying the main needs each platform needed to consider but the two concepts could differ in its tone, approach. Tone axis being practical vs emotional and appraoch being a more unciverntional (playful) approach vs a conventional approach that relied heavily on common ux patterns. The needs we identified were to be used and relevant in the initial prototypes we built - to at least keep some threads as consistent variables.&#60;img width="1175" height="656" width_o="1175" height_o="656" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fe41dd9be489a78840cf312c97a94bf5b1a58fdfe45bce0d859f43d64ecfea80/Frame-101.png" data-mid="116734733" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fe41dd9be489a78840cf312c97a94bf5b1a58fdfe45bce0d859f43d64ecfea80/Frame-101.png" /&#62;


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	Co-Braiding
	Our quick evaluative tests began to surface common needs and themes that we needed to address if we wanted to resolve both our identified framework gaps and the needs of folks who could potentially use this platform.&#38;nbsp;


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	Weaving a Blanket
	We were quickly running out of time to do deep usability studies so we focused heavily on the frameworks and contexts our research highlighted. We wanted to empahsize the importance of having a strong foundational theoretical working-point with which to build something off of.&#38;nbsp;
Below are highlighted frameworks we used throughout the end of the process to guide us through the making of Kwilt.&#38;nbsp;
Community at Scale
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Understanding Value Flows
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Building a Resilient Community &#38;amp; Framework&#60;img width="1175" height="661" width_o="1175" height_o="661" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8bff318d02ff62ae42759558b26e439beb915c4f6561baa7476226fbf1b71e58/Frame-116.png" data-mid="116734743" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8bff318d02ff62ae42759558b26e439beb915c4f6561baa7476226fbf1b71e58/Frame-116.png" /&#62;
Our Ethos&#60;img width="1175" height="620" width_o="1175" height_o="620" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b83e000ff07af65cce6952c4c2fe00c3368797b52b1a2ffc0ae74c7f1560079d/Frame-117.png" data-mid="116734744" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b83e000ff07af65cce6952c4c2fe00c3368797b52b1a2ffc0ae74c7f1560079d/Frame-117.png" /&#62;
With these frameworks in mind, which also held many of our design directives for what we wanted to build out, Kwilt was born.&#38;nbsp;


	Our Mission
	Kwilt is a platform that serves as a low barrier starting point to facilitate the growth and reslience of hyperlocal communities through proactive practices like collective goal setting to promote micro solidarity amongst community players. 

	Kwilt’s Threads
	&#60;img width="1175" height="660" width_o="1175" height_o="660" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/92358c3121b3e50acaea2bb9c9f1d8d1e8a9835fa225b5ccc37c5c78f25f18bf/Frame-120.png" data-mid="116734746" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/92358c3121b3e50acaea2bb9c9f1d8d1e8a9835fa225b5ccc37c5c78f25f18bf/Frame-120.png" /&#62;

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	Our Platform
	&#60;img width="1175" height="658" width_o="1175" height_o="658" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4b504aaefc2a346c481a7112640197835e6b0a84b74b49c3dd6333e817fb48db/Frame-123.png" data-mid="116734748" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4b504aaefc2a346c481a7112640197835e6b0a84b74b49c3dd6333e817fb48db/Frame-123.png" /&#62;&#60;img width="1175" height="659" width_o="1175" height_o="659" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/13dd2dcd3542d4f6d521aa77fa6128f6dd3ae8c43168e12ff3e33b198c36d661/Frame-124.png" data-mid="116734749" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/13dd2dcd3542d4f6d521aa77fa6128f6dd3ae8c43168e12ff3e33b198c36d661/Frame-124.png" /&#62;&#60;img width="1175" height="658" width_o="1175" height_o="658" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c00a84ea8122033899acf7b8e1269d88ce8f600bc4b30c6333eb6a375c4ec726/Frame-125.png" data-mid="116734750" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c00a84ea8122033899acf7b8e1269d88ce8f600bc4b30c6333eb6a375c4ec726/Frame-125.png" /&#62;

	Zooming Back Out Again
	This entire studio project was a freakin’ whirlwind! Our initial engagement with this project had us going deeper and deeper into defining the area we wanted to be in. With the onset of Covid and the world around us essentially collapsing, we kept finding ourselves contextualizing our project in the very much *now*, it made us leave the comfort of academia and the comfort of a classroom and had us confront the very real realities we continue to face. I think our team did a wonderful job at taking a systems level view on a project that really wanted to champion so hyperspecific- hyperlocal. I applaud our efforts in being able to run across the different scales and affordances the situation presented us. This moment in history reminds us, no matter how the small the context, we’re inevitably entangled in the life-world context- for better or for worse; a situation we hope is for the better.&#38;nbsp;
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		<title>Beam</title>
				
		<link>https://asanchez.design/Beam</link>

		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2021 18:02:53 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Amanda Sanchez Design</dc:creator>

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		<description>a.Sánchez

Design / Teaching / About / Resume
	&#60;img width="2500" height="1151" width_o="2500" height_o="1151" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9acdf76c0f317b0c9df993d1c8d7af94b815ba40092429566a224f886f29c09f/Home-Desktop-Copy-3.png" data-mid="112820775" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9acdf76c0f317b0c9df993d1c8d7af94b815ba40092429566a224f886f29c09f/Home-Desktop-Copy-3.png" /&#62;

	Bring Beam Back.


	TeamDave Pierce (UX)Jenny Lan (UX)JoJo Sounthone (Brand + UI)Katie Mazikins (Brand)Maddy Nusser (Content)Amanda Sanchez (UI System)
 
	ClientAllstate
	TypeUI DesignDesign Systems
	Timeline6 months
	

	Overview
	Allstate Digital Safety is Allstate’s initiative to add another level of security to your life—digital security. By watching and curating your online presence, this app is meant to educate the user and alert the user to events, like breaches, that may compromise their identity. This project breakdown specifically focuses on the UI and brand development aspect of the app. We were instrumental in setting an incredibly solid foundation for the look and feel and functionality of this app.

Over the next 3 months I worked toward making a consistent, and scalable design system. Our name for our design language is Beam. We chose Beam because of the subtle glows that appeared throughout the visual language of the app. 

The previous design team ( Katie &#38;amp; JoJo ) were the pace setters for the conceptual aspect of the app. If you have the chance, I encourage you to reach out to them to learn more about the explorations they did, they’re amazing!
 Audit
	We were asked to assess the current visual state of the app for a potential redesign or refresh. To do that we had to do an audit to understand the scale and scope of this initiative. Through this audit we found that the foundation we thought existed wasn’t really there. 
We found major inconsistencies with type styles, components and colors. The biggest issue we found was the use of some color combinations was not AA compliant. Allstate adheres to AA compliance.
Realizing this, we communicated to the team that it wouldn’t make sense to redesign an existing design language that was inconsistent or basically non-existent. So we pushed toward an effort to rebuild the skeleton of the visual language and continue to work our way to refreshing the existing language.
	&#60;img width="2500" height="1152" width_o="2500" height_o="1152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5466317c0595d82a7848a8027ecdf4be791649375c4030bd7dedb37d28231fec/Compare-Copy.png" data-mid="112820771" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5466317c0595d82a7848a8027ecdf4be791649375c4030bd7dedb37d28231fec/Compare-Copy.png" /&#62;&#60;img width="2500" height="1152" width_o="2500" height_o="1152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/acee55b363804147cd9117908632ac496f1a823d1b3b1e2cd652113fa63eb7cd/image-asset.png" data-mid="112820781" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/acee55b363804147cd9117908632ac496f1a823d1b3b1e2cd652113fa63eb7cd/image-asset.png" /&#62;


	History
	We looked to previous versions of the app to understand what was working and what wasn’t working. The way we looked at the design evolution was through a timeline. There was Beam 1.0 and then came Beam 2.0. Our goal was to get back to Beam 1.0 but a revision or refresh of it. The original visual design language became skewed because of many opinions, undocumented decisions, and fast design sprints, and dev restrictions. This led to the inconsistencies and pitfalls it currently had. One of the key efforts was to Bring Beam Back. 

Through conversations with the Design Lead at Allstate we discovered that overtime the initial design kept getting lighter. This was an evolution that was not approved. Our design lead trusted us with changing or fixing whatever we needed to fix to reach the consistency and look we wanted to achieve.

	&#60;img width="2500" height="1152" width_o="2500" height_o="1152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6a930bd5c9f7ad3e17c6336a6b62dff7096cf524531a7d4ec66297f53ee3e901/Timeline.png" data-mid="112820785" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6a930bd5c9f7ad3e17c6336a6b62dff7096cf524531a7d4ec66297f53ee3e901/Timeline.png" /&#62;


	Bringing Beam Back
	Not everything was lost, here are a few elements we thought and knew and heard were working. We looked at existing research, spoke with stakeholders and evaluated what could and couldn't be done. We created a plan to update the language. The main elements were, typography consistency, having a color story, and understanding page structures and types. 
One of the most important hurdles was revamping the color palette. There were major areas of the app that were using color that wasn’t aa color compliant. We had to figure out a way to update the colors while maintaining the original look and feel of the app—but updated. While making sure the family could work well across the entire app. 
We explored many type relationships with the current app structure. Eventually I found a harmonious relationship between all of the sizes we wanted to utilize. We used the iOS native guidelines to help guide our decisions.
We used keywords that were created at the very beginning of the app design to help guide our intentions. 
Through explorations, alignment meetings and research we finally found and evolved a design language that felt true to our goal. Everyone was aligned.

	&#60;img width="2037" height="939" width_o="2037" height_o="939" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/104fc493a7d77287648e746b0bcba2d5a1544d2e849fc6243078a99eebe5a109/keywords.png" data-mid="112820782" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/104fc493a7d77287648e746b0bcba2d5a1544d2e849fc6243078a99eebe5a109/keywords.png" /&#62;

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The Evolution
	We finally had a consistent design language that could be clearly communicated throughout the app. We left a few elements open ended, but defined on a foundational level so that the language and app could naturally grow and continue to evolve with new features and updates. 

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Documentation
	We created a documentation system for developers to have on hand. These components also exist in Zeplin for developers. We also have a component library built out for any designers that join the team. 

	&#60;img width="2037" height="939" width_o="2037" height_o="939" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6f0d9dcb277ac154bd9111347a5f7f6f020c8a0f888677b21e6b7294d8b1ca52/Components.png" data-mid="112820772" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6f0d9dcb277ac154bd9111347a5f7f6f020c8a0f888677b21e6b7294d8b1ca52/Components.png" /&#62;

	&#60;img width="2037" height="939" width_o="2037" height_o="939" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/24820f9fbb58316cd3da9de8603725832dbb513d90971fe518d03823eac819c9/image-asset-3.png" data-mid="112820779" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/24820f9fbb58316cd3da9de8603725832dbb513d90971fe518d03823eac819c9/image-asset-3.png" /&#62;
What’s Next?
	As of now, this app has not been released to the public. Our contract with Allstate in ended in December 2018. Allstate acquired InfoArmor to enhance their digital and technical capabilities. Allstate showcased their initiative at CES 2019, seeing my screens in this context was super cool!
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