Design is Resilience: A Personal Journey

What are the ingredients of personal resilience and how can it shape a career in design?

Can we adapt them for our own lives by learning from the pains of failure, the highs of triumph, or unforeseen challenges from life journeys? Zahin Ali, a designer at IDEO, shares a deeply personal story about experimenting to find his way to a design career. Key turning points — from a risk-filled leap of faith to battling a life-upending prognosis — required him to learn resilience to become a designer and realize it’s importance for the practice — and he'll share what he learned along the way.

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https://ideo.zoom.us/j/93399798555?pwd=RlBEZTlBTXFEN1loWGcyN0kvaE01Zz09

Bio
Zahin Ali is a Senior Interaction Designer at IDEO Chicago where he leads design on interdisciplinary teams to solve ambiguous problems with human-centered design thinking practices. He tackles problems with a superpower of articulation with expertise in communicating ideas with a storytelling approach, fueled by building prototypes in service of dreaming and learning.

With a background celebrating breadth, he has previously led product design at a medical wearable startup, designed drought indicators at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and played a role in Tesla achieving high volume manufacturing for the Model S.

Zahin is a Design Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley and earned a Masters at the Carnegie Mellon University School of Design.