I'm Calgary Haines-Trautman, a strategic designer, researcher, and facilitator who instigates, connects, and empowers stakeholders to create positive change in complex environments for the public good.
Since 2017, I have helped deliver insights and tools to enable and accelerate change, successfully supporting momentum and action across civic tech, med tech, and community engagement. I thrive in interdisciplinary, curious, collaborative, mission-driven organizations, using human centered design to create and advocate for high-quality products and services.
Work
Working toward a human-centered procurement portal through cross-department stakeholder workshops
Designing and facilitating design sprints to create professional development tools with staff insights and buy-in
Envisioning strategic procurement in Boston through process improvements and a proposed UX redesign
The Department of Strange Beauty
A locally-rooted "productive fiction" designed to engage with people struggling with the messes municipal waste management and other leaky systems
Graphic Design for Design Research
A process book on using graphic design to facilitate user research and communicate findings about complex systems
A smart home-integrated app that uses morning goal-setting and environmental cues to help you decide to go to bed on time