BOOK TEAM
Nicola Ulibarri
Nicola Ulibarri took a class in design thinking at the start of her PhD studies, hoping it would accelerate her research. Inspired by this experience, she co-founded the Research as Design project to adapt design thinking for busy researchers. She is now an assistant professor in Urban Planning and Public Policy at University of California, Irvine. Her research and teaching combine approaches from environmental planning, public administration, and water resource engineering to investigate the interaction between people, infrastructure, and the environment. In her free time, she enjoys daydreaming about tenure and catching up on everything on her to-do list.
Amanda E. Cravens
Amanda E. Cravens was introduced to human-centered design in a former life as a web editor and information architect. She co-founded what was then called the Research as Design project while earning her PhD in Environment and Resources at Stanford University, when she realized how much her past experience as a web design professional was influencing her scholarship. Amanda’s own research examines how thinking, learning, and decision-making function from the individual to the institutional scale. She is currently a research social scientist for a U.S. federal agency. Amanda does her most creative thinking during the daily walks on which her New Zealand sheepdog Mighty insists.
Sebastian Kernbach
Sebastian Kernbach, PhD, is a lecturer, project manager and researcher at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland and a Visiting Fellow at Stanford University. He is a Guest Professor at the African Doctoral Academy and the Central University of Beijing. He has worked with and consulted organizations such as Art Basel, Interbrand, Xerox, Swiss Re, the European Central Bank and others. His interests are knowledge visualization, storytelling, creativity and life design. He founded the Visual Collaboration Lab (www.vicola.org) and the Life Design Lab (www.lifedesignlab.ch) and is co-author of the award-winning book Meet up!(www.meetupbuch.de).
Anja Svetina Nabergoj
Anja Svetina Nabergoj is a co-founder of the Research as Design project at Stanford University and a member of the Advisory Board of the Stanford Catalyst for Collaborative Solutions. She teaches graduate classes and Executive Education programs at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University and the University of Ljubljana. She is committed to helping others reach their creative potential. Her experiential teaching approach combines findings from evolutionary biology, neuroscience, psychology, and anthropology with the goal to inspire leaders in companies and research labs to change their mindsets and create work environments that are conducive to innovation.
Adam Royalty
Understanding how design can lead to personal and organizational transformation drive Adam Royalty's work. As the Lead Design Research Investigator at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford (a.k.a. the d.school), Adam has taught multiple design thinking courses and has worked to deepen the creative capacity of organizations in over a dozen countries. Adam also founded the Columbia Entrepreneurship Design Studio, which amplifies peoples’ problem-solving capacity through design.