Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Georgia Institute of Technology

Parsons School of Design - The New School

Lund University

Creative Lead working at the intersection of Technology, Urban Planning, and Design

Skills: Cartography · User Experience · Product Design

Mapbox

Senior Map Designer

UrbanFootprint

Design Director

Skills: Interaction Design · Concept Development · Cartography · Project Management · Information Architecture

Design Manager

Building software that helps urban planners with land use and mobility planning decisions using actionable data for cities across the US.

Product Design Lead

Early design hire at Sidewalk Labs. Helped incubate mobility-tech focused spin-out Coord, a developer platform for mobility providers, navigation tools, and urban infrastructure. By connecting app developers to services such as parking, tolls, and bike-share, Coord can unlock a seamless trip experience for people in cities.

Sidewalk Labs

Design Lead, Coord

Interaction designer focusing on IDEO.org’s financial inclusion challenges in Tanzania, by balancing quantitative and qualitative research methods that inspire simple but meaningful designs for financial products and services.

IDEO.org

Interaction Designer

The CFPB Design+Technology Fellowship is a two-year program for developers, graphic designers, and UX pros to help build a new government agency.

Selected for inaugural fellowship program to use technology to empower consumers, provide market insight, and bring government effectively into the digital age.

UI DESIGN: Improved online complaint form intake completion rate through redesign of the complaint form digital experience, employing form UI best practices.

UI DESIGN, MAPPING & DATA​: Assisted mortgage equal lending analysis by designing a geospatial data tool that correlates loan applications & urban social-demographic conditions.

UI DESIGN: Improved the experience of researching our complaint database by designing a custom search interface.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Senior Design & Technology Fellow

New Market Goods was formed with the goal of better understanding and highlighting positive production practices in Bangladesh. We’ve partnered with Deshal, a community of local garment producers who’ve been striving to create better working conditions in their factory. Together we hope to promote good design, celebrate Bangladeshi artisanship, and improve transparency in the production of clothing, starting with our line of popover shirts.

New Market Goods

Co-Founder

Design & Technology Fellow

DUSPviz is a student-led initiative of MIT’s Department of Urban Studies & Planning to improve our capacity in data analysis, visual representation, and the communication of truthful stories for effective planning. The DUSPviz team is here to help the department find new ways to teach these skills.

Research Assistant & Workshop Instructor

Implemented a project for UN-Habitat sponsored by the Cities Alliance called “Cities Development Strategy: Making Urban Investment Work” that involves field work in the Indonesian cities of Banjarmasin, Pekalongan, and Surakarta (Solo).

Kota Kita Foundation

Urban Planner & Designer

Creating visuals and diagrammatic illustrations to accompany the research of Eran Ben-Joseph for his forthcoming book, Rethinking a Lot. Coordinating DUSPviz, an initiative of the department to increase visual literacy, data analysis, and communication as primary skill sets of urban planners.

Research Assistant

I work with organizations, non-profits, agencies, labs, and researchers to visualize and communicate their work and ideas.

Clients:
Inter-American Development Bank
The World Bank, data visualization for East Asia and the Pacific group
Density Atlas, Tunney Lee, Professor Of Architecture + City Planning, Emeritus, MIT
Development Workshop, Atlas Cazenga, Luanda, Angola
Community Innovators Lab, MIT
Sidewalk Lab, Annette Kim, MIT
Amy Glasmeier, MIT
Larry Susskind, MIT
Holly Ben-Joseph, Landscape Architect

Stephen James Kennedy

Freelance Designer

Contract designer developing innovative packaging concepts; coordinating whitespace concepts between marketing and engineering teams.

The Coca-Cola Company

Packaging Designer

People of Resource is an Atlanta-based multidisciplinary design firm. Our work encompasses industrial design, interior architecture, photography, film, art direction, graphic design, and interactive design.

Our purpose is to work alongside our clients to dissolve their creative problems. We are change agents and our propulsive positive attitude brings out the best in the people we work with. We share a desire to collaborate with companies, individuals, and institutions who are interested in making things better.

Located in a renovated telephone factory on the Eastside of Atlanta, People of Resource is a lean office, able to offer stronger results and accelerated schedules at highly competitive rates.

Stephen Kennedy