Jane Teed
Design for
Social change, Technical change
Year
2019-2020
With a prior background in textiles, Jane’s interests lie in studying how the technical and the social can be merged to make great things happen within business and society. Her final thesis merged these two disciplines to explore how the pension crisis can be approached using a more human focus. Jane is now taking her career down the path of Business Change in the food and drinks industry and has been enjoying using and trialing change management methods in a workplace environment, outside of ECA.
INSIGHT
What is your favourite part of the Design for Change programme?
The hands-on and dynamic teaching approach used by the lecturers really kept me engaged from start to finish. We truly were encouraged to push all ideas, silly or genius, since play is the only way that change can be experimented with and trialed.
One book or reading recommendation?
‘Range – How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World’ by David Epstein.
What area of design are you most interested in?
Human-centered Design: with hyperpersonalisation at the forefront of technology, it is important now more than ever to properly focus on the individual as well as the collective when designing systems and products which are increasingly making users feel like just another megabyte of data.
