Sarah Brooks
Human Interface Design, Apple
Sarah Brooks is a design leader and intrapreneur who uses mixed-methods research and service design approaches to help teams and organizations reach better outcomes. She has worked across enterprise, federal, non-profit, start-up, and hybrid organizations. Sarah is an IBM Distinguished Designer, Strategic Foresight, where she is researching and creating a practice in foresight and design for teams across IBM’s software, infrastructure, and consulting businesses. Most recently, she served as Chief Design Officer, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs where she was co-founder of the Veterans Experience Office, to improve service delivery to America’s Veterans. Previously, she led a Design for Social Innovation practice at Hot Studio in San Francisco, CA. She is also a writer, artist, and co-curator of the Rosenfeld Media Civic Design Conference. Learn more and get in touch at sarahbbrooks.com.
Rosenverse talks by Sarah:
" Physical public spaces themselves become a design material to work with. "
Theme Three Intro
November 18, 2022
" We need to slow down decision-making processes so that ethics and systems thinking scale with project scope. "
Reflect and Chart Forward
December 10, 2021
" We’re going to explore trauma responsive design, radical participatory design, and ethical technologies. "
Theme 3 Intro
December 10, 2021
" People implementing policy see the problems with the policy long before anyone else does. "
Fireside chat with Sarah Brooks and Jen Pahlka
October 21, 2021
" Design operations is really about how we’re scaling the work, thinking our practices, and serving cross-functional teams. "
Scaling Impact with Service Design
March 25, 2021
