About
Consulting in Teaching — Learning — Innovation
Learn something NEW every day.
Laurie is currently teaching Data Visualization at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena CA; in addition she is professor emeritus at Pasadena City College. Since 2009, she has consulted in education innovation for over 250 companies as well as universities. She advocates for academic initiatives, supports excellence in teaching and learning, and provides integration and implementation for systems-wide online teaching and learning solutions. As a thought leader, public speaker and writer, Laurie evangelizes all things education and learning . Before consulting, she served for 22 years as a professor in Interaction Design and as the director of the Pasadena City College Digital Media, serving the state of California as a regional resource for collaboration between education, industry, and the community. Her passion is digital storytelling.
STEP BY STEP
Creative Problem-solving and Design Thinking
is an iterative process of creating & making choices
01 EMPATHIZE
Emotionally connect to your customer and users. Understand the world from your user's point-of-view.
02 DEFINE
Define the problem clearly for both the project design & business objectives.
03 IDEATE
Explore ideas and solutions from many points of view. Brainstorm creating as many ideas as possible, then evaluate, and explore and extend the possibilities.
04 PROTOTYPE
Develop, visualize, and build ideas and solutions. Rapidly build a low fidelity prototype from which to learn. Create the story!
05 TEST
Review, gather user feedback, and reiterate