Thomas Both

About Thomas Both

Senior designer and design leader with over a decade of work focused on strategic, conceptual and creative thinking across product design, experience design, systems change, design thinking, and instructional design. Adaptable leader of projects, teams, and programs with a proven track record of creating and executing successful design work across a broad spectrum. A design educator since 2009, at the Stanford d.school and across the world. Leads Creative work for Professional Education at the d.school, to create meaningful and experiential design education. Directs the d.school Designing for Social Systems, our program to teach social sector leaders to utilize practices of human-centered design, systems, equity, and strategy to take on complex social challenges.An integrative designer, with an eye toward both people and systems; working in collaboration to create systems change. Partner at Within Collaborative, co-designing with leaders, nonprofits, communities to design powerful solutions in community-led systems of care.

Experience

1. Partner

   Within Collaborative

   Jun 2023 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   The WithIn Collaborative works at the intersection of leadership, human-centered design and systems strategy. We partner with visionary leaders, nonprofits, foundations and the public sector to co-design powerful solutions to challenges of inequity and scarcity in community-led systems of care.

Education

• Stanford University

  Master of Science - MS, Product Design

  2006 — 2008

• Harvey Mudd College

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Engineering

  1999 — 2003

Skills

• User-Centered Design
• Human-Centered Design
• Rapid Prototyping
• Industrial Design
• Ethnography
• User Experience
• Design Education
• Teaching
• User Research
• User Experience Design
• Design Thinking
• Product Design
• Design Strategy
• Experience Design
• Service Design
• Concept Development
• Graphic Design