Organization involvement since January 2025
Leadership at UA Tikkun Olam Makers
Helping other teams turn needs into prototypes.
As Co-President & Lead of Innovation, I help teams develop assistive technology with need-knowers. The role spans design sprints, requirements, reviews, prototyping and how teams explain their work.
- My contribution
- Chapter leadership, design-review support, member mentoring and technical/product communication.
- Current stage
- Ongoing chapter leadership.
A broader role than my own project
My QuickClamp work is one example within the chapter. The leadership responsibility is to help other people and projects move forward: clarify the need, develop a prototype, get feedback and explain the next decision.
Give the teams a recurring working rhythm
I directed nine multidisciplinary assistive-technology teams through user requirements, weekly design sprints, and prototype reviews with users with disabilities, downselecting 25+ concepts into nine developed prototypes per semester.
I coached teams on product requirements, technical storytelling, and demonstration readiness through monthly workshops and mock reviews, contributing to three finalist placements for assistive-technology teams in innovation competitions.
The people behind the work
Nine multidisciplinary project teams, with the people using the devices participating in the design process.