Daniel Erwin
MDes 2010
MDes 2010
resume
project 1:
Opus: Orchestrating Talent
My team - Brian Winter, HyeKyung Yoo, Nallieli Santamaria, and I - identified a long-term growth strategy for CareerBuilder. By understanding its users, competitors, and core competencies in the context of a changing cultural and technological landscape, we saw a clear future and detailed implementation plan.
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My team - Brian Winter, HyeKyung Yoo, Nallieli Santamaria, and I - identified a long-term growth strategy for CareerBuilder. By understanding its users, competitors, and core competencies in the context of a changing cultural and technological landscape, we saw a clear future and detailed implementation plan.
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personal statement
I graduated from the University of Texas at Dallas with a degree in literature and a vision of communication changing the world. I successfully ran a non-profit arts organization in Arkansas after graduating, but I couldn't resist the relentless energy of the city and enrolled at ID. I am intrigued by the fuzzy boundaries of design, and how that relates to the fuzzy boundaries of the problems users encounter. I am inspired by the systems thinking way of bringing that fuzziness into consciousness where it becomes complexity. My work focuses on distilling that complexity into clear, useful knowledge.
I graduated from the University of Texas at Dallas with a degree in literature and a vision of communication changing the world. I successfully ran a non-profit arts organization in Arkansas after graduating, but I couldn't resist the relentless energy of the city and enrolled at ID. I am intrigued by the fuzzy boundaries of design, and how that relates to the fuzzy boundaries of the problems users encounter. I am inspired by the systems thinking way of bringing that fuzziness into consciousness where it becomes complexity. My work focuses on distilling that complexity into clear, useful knowledge.
project 2:
Juncture Opportunity Engine
Juncture proposes an evolutionary strategy to give a city’s poorest inhabitants leverage as an equal partner with businesses and government. The team held itself to relying only on activities which have precedent in poor communities, meaning that the organization we envisioned is likely already emerging in several cities globally.
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Juncture proposes an evolutionary strategy to give a city’s poorest inhabitants leverage as an equal partner with businesses and government. The team held itself to relying only on activities which have precedent in poor communities, meaning that the organization we envisioned is likely already emerging in several cities globally.
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project 3:
Hyperconnected Infrastructure
As part of Chicago’s centennial celebration of Daniel Burnham’s city plan, we created a water, energy, waste, and communication platform for the 21st century. Production and distribution of these four vital services - currently tangled and entrenched - are more efficient, adaptable, and useful in the new system.
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As part of Chicago’s centennial celebration of Daniel Burnham’s city plan, we created a water, energy, waste, and communication platform for the 21st century. Production and distribution of these four vital services - currently tangled and entrenched - are more efficient, adaptable, and useful in the new system.
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