NYU Stern’s New Tech MBA helps students understand the ins and outs of the tech industry by having guest lectures from industry. I was invited to share a case studies and demystify what it is like to work at a large company in tech. My presentation walked the students though a case study on masks during COVID, our company’s culture and how decisions get made and prioritized. No session would be complete without ample Q&A and we had lots of time for that as well.
Stanford Women in Design Board Member
Very honored to be joining the Stanford Women in Design (SWID) advisory board. Excited to be able to mentor so many women as they start and build their careers in design.
Stanford Women in Design is the largest organization at Stanford focused on empowering future design leaders.
Their mission: build the creative confidence of kick-ass female designers
They are a Stanford University organization dedicated to equipping women in the community with the tangible skills needed to navigate design industries and beyond.
All members of the Stanford community are welcome to participate in and become members of Stanford Women in Design.
Why they were founded?
SWID was formed due to a gap in current mentorship opportunities at Stanford, and to address the challenges facing women in design. They aim to empower women through inspiring and catalyzing skill-development, career-mapping, and learning through the self-pursuit of innovative new projects, beyond the classroom experience.
MENTORSHIP
They build community between women in industry + students.
Through our internal and external mentorship programs, SWID provides students with resources and insight into professional opportunities within the design industry. Their mentors span across various fields of design, fintech, VC, beauty, social impact, and more.
Tackling Problems with Design Thinking for Section4
On December 16, 2021 I taught an introductory class on Design Thinking for Section4 the online ed-tech startup that is trying to offer MBA educations at economies of scale.
Workshop Description: It can be hard to generate impactful new ideas without a stroke of inspiration, but as leaders, we're often called to do this on the fly. This lecture is designed to help you harness design thinking practices to do just this. Design thinking isn't just for designers—it's a problem solving approach that everyone can use for anything from generating a new business idea to solving a social problem to helping you design your life or career goals.
In this final lecture of 2021, come ready to get your hands dirty with hands-on application of fundamental design thinking principles. This time together will teach you a better way to innovate using empathy, ideation, and validation to help you break out of linear thinking and generate great new ideas.
Join us for this interactive lecture at 5 p.m. ET led by Christina Goldschmidt, VP of Product Design at Etsy. With 20+ years of experience working with a wide array of Fortune 500 clients, including Marriott, American Express, The Discovery Channel, Morgan Stanley, and numerous others, she'll walk members through a step-by-step brainstorming process you can use in your own work.
Experimentation 101 Course on InVision Learn Platform
InVision launched a learning platform that includes self-paced video content. They invited me to create a seven-part course that is an introduction to experimentation for designers. It coverers the basics of experimentation, details on A/B testing, common terms, what makes a good A/B test, tips for getting started and an overview how experimentation reduces uncertainty and fear.
Now you can watch the course here:
NYU Stern Tech MBA - Big Tech Case Study
NYU Stern’s New Tech MBA helps students understand the ins and outs of the tech industry by having case studies with different types of companies. I was invited to demystify what it is like to work at a large company in tech. Walking the students though a case study, our company’s culture and how decisions get made and prioritized. I recruited a great Product Manager partner to present with me.
Download my slides from NYU here:
Virtual Innovation, Design Thinking & Experience Design Workshops
This year I had to seriously adapt my annual two-part workshop at NYU Stern to our new virtual world. The first part was easy as it consisted of a presentation overview of UX and innovation techniques, but the second part required some extra ingenuity as it is normally hands-on, providing students a chance to practice deriving insights from user research and developing innovative experiences with those insights.. I turned to InVision’s Freehand to build interactive spaces for the 2nd hands on workshop and it ended up working well. I think that it could be a way to keep offering the workshops at scale going forward. The students were engaged. However it was hard to keep their attention for the full 3 hours as it was the same day that Joe Biden’s election was announced and was also unseasonably warm and everyone wanted to take to the streets.
Innovation Workshop
I was honored to give my annual two-part workshop at NYU Sten School of Business for MBAs interested in learning more about digital. The first part consisted of an overview of UX and innovation techniques and the second was hands-on, providing students a chance to practice deriving insights from user research and developing innovative experiences with those insights.
CUNY Hackathon and ProtoHack Design Thinking Workshop
In preparation for the Spring CUNY Hackathon, I lead a design thinking workshop to help the participants prepare for the marathon event. The prep session was put on by Protohack and hosted at Galvanize.
Image courtesy of CUNY Startups
You can download my slides here:
Learn more about the CUNY Hackathon here:
https://www.cunystartups.com/hackathon
Learn more about ProtoHack here:
NYU STERN School of Business - User Experience Workshop
I've been talking to NYU Stern for about two years now about conducing workshops in UX to better prepare students to go out and work in the digital world. On February 28th I'm finally got to do a lunch time workshop. I walked students through the basics of UX, how to speak intelligently on the topic in interviews, how to generate insights from user research and how to work with UX designers.
See the slides here: https://www.slideshare.net/emilycakeandarrow/demystifying-user-experience-72781605
See video excerpts from my workshop:
Christina Goldschmidt leading a workshop on NYU Stern School of Business on User Generated Insights
NYU STERN School of Business - Digital Product Management
NYU is developing its digital practices and they asked me to teach a workshop on Digital Product Management. I brought Nabil with me and we ran MBA students through affinity mapping, design studio and feature prioritization and road mapping
Guest Lecture for Design at RPI
I was very fortunate to be a part of the second graduating class of the RPI EMAC program. Having an academic foundation in digital design has been a wonderful springboard for my entire career. In order to give back, I would go back to school and guest lecture for the design program. I was able to speak and connect with students from 2000 to 2006. Grad school sadly stopped my trips, but hopefully I'll be able to reconnect with some professors and resume soon.