Anne Stevens Service Design Innovation Profile

Anne Stevens
Service Design Innovation
Data Viz UX / IxD
Profile
From digital media to bricks-and-mortar building,
I have a solid track record of multidisciplinary
design applied to real world problems (health
care, electronic waste, sustainability). I offer
the latest in digital media and design thinking,
combined with private practics business
experience.
anne.stevenz@gmail.com
stevensanne.com
416-436-1178
180 Borden Street, Toronto, M5S 2N3
• Leading edge sustainable design
• For-profit and not-for-profit sectors
• Developed and developing world contexts
My designs have won national design competitions,
been showcased on CBC’s The Nature of Things
and published in peer-reviewed journals.
Key proficiencies
• Screen- and non-screen-based media
• Data visualization design
• User experience design
• User centered design methods
• Outside the box creativity
• Multidisciplinary and multistakeholder
teamwork
• Rapid prototyping and user evaluation
• Foresighting methods, trend analysis & scenario
development
• Client facing communication
• Architectural design & construction
• Adobe Creative Suite
• HTML, CSS
• Axure
• Processing, Ketai
• Arduino
• Tableau, R, Gephi
• XPath
• SketchUp 3D modeling
• AutoCad
• Drawing and model making
Education
April 2013
Master of Design, Digital Futures, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada
• Master’s thesis: New Uses for Old Phones: Upcycling the Rotary Dial Phone in the Age of the Smartphone.
It addressed the problem of increasingly rapid mobile phone obsolescence with two interactive
projects that upcycled the rotary dial phone to make it function like a smartphone.
• DFI Graduate Chair’s Award
• Thesis proejcts exhibited at eLeo X-shaped Digital Creatives exhibition, Dec. 2013, and Xtension
exhibition, April 2013
April 1994
Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Humanities, York University, Toronto, Canada
June 1988
Diploma in Architecture, Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, England
• Professional Architecture degree
Anne Stevens
Digital Media & Technology
Oct 2014
July 2014
to the present
Freelance Design and Innovation
• Dundas Data Visualization, Toronto: user experience design; visualization design best practices website
content development.
• White Noise: representing radio station demographic data in sound and interactive media, in partnership with a Ryerson University faculty member
Apr 2013
to the present
Design and Development:Visual AnalyticsTools, Mobile Platforms, UI / UX / IxD
Visual Analytics Lab, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada
Industry partner: CAIS Hospital, Lins, Brazil
• Data visualization, long term healthcare
• Peer reviewed publicationt
• User flow diagrams, wireframing
• Prototyping and user evaluation
Dec 2012
to June 2014
Design Research
Visual Analytics Lab, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada
Industry partner: BBM Analytics - Data Visualization of broadcast media data
• Data visualization, broadcast media
• Tangible user interfaces
• Screen- and non-screen-based media
• Prototyping and user evaluation
May to July 2012
Field Research and Advocacy
Digital Empowerment Foundation, Delhi, India. DEF’s mission is to use information and communication
technologies to empower people on the edge of information in India and south Asia.
• Informal mobile phone economies
• Ethnographic research
• Electronic waste
Teaching & Curriculum Development
Apr to June and
Sept to Dec 2014
Jan to Mar 2014
Sept. 2011
to Dec 2013
Sept to Dec 1990
Instructor, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada
• Introduction to Visual Analytics
• Fully developed and delivered this brand new continuing studies course for professionals
Curriculum Development, Digital Futures Institute, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada
Instructor & Teaching Assistant, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada
• Networked Environments and Communities
• Research Methods for Graphic Designers
• Visual Studies III: Critical Frameworks
Adjunct Tutor, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
• Architectural Design Studio: Urban Design
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Anne Stevens
Architecture
1998 to 2011
Owner and Principal Architect, FORTarchitect inc., Toronto, Canada
Grand Prize winner, Archetype for the Living City Competition, a national sustainable housing design
competition, organized by the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority and the Design Exchange.
• Leading edge sustainable design
• Member, Ontario Association of Architects
• Heritage, institutional, retail, residential, tree• LEED Accredited Professional
house design
1995 to 2001
Build Committee Member, Construction Site Supervisor, Architect, Construction Volunteer
Habitat for Humanity, Toronto, Canada
• Outside-the-box project management
• Leadership & volunteer training
• Multiple stakeholder coordination
• Hands-on construction
1988 to 1997
Architectural Design
• Shary Adams Architect, Toronto, Canada
• Susan Speigel Inc., Toronto, Canada
• Baird Sampson Neuert Architects, Toronto,
Canada
References
Dr. Sara Diamond, President, OCAD University
Lead Researcher, OCADu’s Visual Analytics Lab
416-977-6000 x. 300, sdiamond@ocadu.ca
Dr. Paula Gardner, Associate Professor, OCADu
Faculty, TA supervisor
416-977-6000 x. 405, pgardner@faculty.ocadu.ca
Patricio Davila, Associate Professor, OCADu
Master’s thesis supervisor
TA supervisor
416-977-6000 x. 4360, pdavila@faculty.ocadu.ca
Osama Manzar, Founder, Digital Empowerment
Foundation, Delhi
Research internship supervisor
91-11-26532786, osama@defindia.net
Contact
anne.stevenz@gmail.com
stevensanne.com
416-436-1178
180 Borden Street, Toronto, M5S 2N3
22 Oct, 2014