Me at left with the faculty of the University of Washington’s Department of Human-Centered Design.
Commencement address to Human-Centered Design graduates.
context
Project timeline: 2017.
Commence address to the graduates of the University of Washington's Department of Human-Centered Design & Engineering.
The class of 2017 was approximately 150 undergrads, Master's, and Ph.D. graduates and their families (the total audience was approximately 500).
☑ goals
recognize the graduates for their hard work!
bridge the graduates' academic work to the professional world they are about to join
make the speech memorable (tall order); avoid boring people
background and speech
In 2017, I was honored to give the Commence Address to the graduates of the University of Washington's Department of Human-Centered Design & Engineering. I wanted to use the opportunity to do something fun with the graduates (and their families), turning what is typically a one-way speech into a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure style talk.
Here's the speech announcement.
And here's a video of the speech itself. Note, the recording didn’t include the slides I was presenting.
