Contributions

Interactive communication of innovation platforms

During my internship, I had the opportunity to immerse in diverse domains encompassing 3M's global healthcare, home improvement and care, consumer healthcare, and personal safety divisions. Living at the intersection of design, research, facilitation, and business strategy, I spearheaded a project focused on designing interactive storytelling experiences to bring clarity to complex information, and strategic communication of novel platform opportunities. This involved synthesizing complex qualitative research to weave together expansive bodies of work, to convey and inspire exploration of macro trend opportunity spaces.

Exploratory workshop and research support

As the only Design Research intern, I collaborated with other teams across the company to provide support and help define research phases. In particular, work on the heuristic review of an internal scheduling app helped that business team make better decisions regarding the scope of work that lay ahead of them. 

I supported the design, facilitation, and documentation of workshops across multidisciplinary teams. Highlights included designing and facilitating a workshop to help representatives from various divisions re-envision the Future of Healthcare, live-sketching and visual mapping to clarify and create a mutual point of reference.

Design thinking and leadership

I also led an end-to-end design thinking project addressing stigma and barriers to caring for aging skin. I helped ensure continued focus on the most salient aspects of the project, driving ideation, concept development, and project management amongst a diverse intern cohort.

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