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Class of 2017
Andrea Cuadra
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Andrea Cuadra
Andrea is an avid maker, a creative engineer, and an interaction designer who cares about creating products that bring happiness to people. Before coming to Stanford, she was busy inventing toys and games; stories about her work appear on crazymachineblog.tumblr.com.
Brooke McEver
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Brooke McEver
Brooke received a BFA in Fibers from SCAD with a minor in Design for Sustainability. Her philosophy is to create products that will improve rather than degrade the natural environment and economic situations. Brooke is unrelentingly obsessed with connecting producers and consumers on as many levels as possible and creating conversation around production methods.
Bryant Chu
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Bryant Chu
Bryant brings ideas to life as a creative problem solver; the process of conceptualizing and building elegant solutions makes him tick. He has worn several different hats – graphic design consultant, biomechanics researcher, product design engineer – and is now blending those interests in a fascination with the relationship between the human body and its physical environment.
Cameron Gilbert
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Cameron Gilbert
Cameron strives to design scalable solutions to complex problems that improve quality of life – transforming daydreams to reality. Raised internationally, he has experience in product design, mechanical engineering, physics, financial services, IT, and healthcare. He speaks multiple “dialects of creation” across many disciplines and backgrounds. At Stanford, Cameron is interested in designing systemic change through nudging beneficial behaviors and modifying products, services, and systems based upon how they are used in practice, not just in theory.
Elliot Spelman
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Elliot Spelman
Elliott Spelman is interested in the way that light and screens convey information. His work so far at Stanford has mixed semantic meaning (puns, mostly) with emerging light-related technologies, including smart LED arrays, haptic neon, projection mapping, lasers, and microcontroller-driven fluorescents. Prior to Stanford, Elliott worked in the advertising industry, most recently at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners. He also founded a ‘fake’ company called The RoShamBusiness which makes literal versions of idioms and figures of speech. (Google it.) Elliott holds BA degrees in Economics and Creative Writing from USC.
Emily Porter
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Emily Porter
Emily Porter is a designer and engineer who is passionate about sustainability and social good. She is also a total nerd for manufacturing methods and materials and enjoys pondering complex systems. Emily loves tight-knit communities, being outside as much as possible, and all things green, especially trees.
Lynn Stechschulte
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Lynn Stechschulte
Lynn is an inquisitive product designer passionate about translating insights into thoughtful and effective design. Her professional background includes user research with Procter & Gamble and Google, and her personal projects span woodworking, photography, soft goods and beyond. For more, check out lynn.stechschulte.net
Patrick Harrington
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Patrick Harrington
Pat Harrington takes design inspiration from the world around him. Experiences like traveling through Southeast Asia or building houses in Guatemala serve to remind us that the diverse international community is a source of design insight that is all around us. Currently, Pat is making a transition from the physical world in engineering to the digital world of graphic design, UX design, and front-end development.
Peter Lowe
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Peter Lowe
Peter is always thinking about how to improve the world at a systems level, and has a soft spot for projects in manufacturing, sustainability, and education. He is currently fascinated by product-service systems, and in his free time loves making, skiing, and lindy hop. Peter has a background in mechanical engineering and economics, has one successful Kickstarter under his belt, and is a Schmidt-MacArthur Fellow.
Prabhas Pokharel
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Prabhas Pokharel
Prabhas comes from Nepal, and thinks a lot about how design can make meaningful impact in the developing world. He gets inspiration from the beauty of nature, the playfulness of children, the hardships of immigrants, the labor of farm animals, and the goodness of humanity. He believes communities of good people is where magic happens. #loftlove
Scott Moon
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Scott Moon
Scott Moon is passionate about efficient, beautiful designs that simplify, then add lightness. Trained as an aerospace engineer, he hopes to incorporate these elements to meaningful products of space exploration, architecture, and food.
Teagan Daly
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Teagan Daly
Teagan grew up in the woods in New Hampshire where she spent her time drawing, building, and exploring. Now a product designer, she does very much the same today. At Stanford she’s learning new ways to shape and be shaped by the world around her.
Varis Niwatsakul
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Varis Niwatsakul
Varis is an architectural designer by training, an artist by blood, a practicing strategist, a spatial practitioner and an aspiring UX/UI designer. His research interests involve expanding definitions of current UX/UI design metaphors that are inherently flat (tabs, windows, cards) into ones that are more immersive and inherently spatial. To see more of his work please visit: varis.io
Zachary Rotholz
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Zachary Rotholz
Zach is a paper engineer, musical instrument hacker, and lover of making things with everyday materials. If you lock him in a room full of straws and duct tape, he would be happy for at least a week. Zach likes to teach people how to build cool stuff, especially the people who think they can’t build cool stuff.