Building trust and resilience with communities facing complex problems through design & research

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What I do

I work with you to deeply understand systemic problems then design ways to help you and your community or organization flourish.

Community-based

I work with communities to ensure the work is led by a mixture of voices and perspectives of the community.

Actionable

I use visual artifacts to get everyone on the same page, highlighting key intervention points with clearer understanding of potential impacts.

Comprehensive

I use a variety of tools and lenses to visualize a wholistic view of complex problems allowing for various scales of understanding.

Validated

Through methods based in trust, I build working relationships with stakeholders to support a continuous practice information validation.


Work

For the past 6 years, I have been working towards supporting systemic change with communities by building products, services, and experiences.

Supporting early leaders to foster healthier workplace relationships with Parafoil

2024 - 2025

Human-centred UX/UI & service design for a digital leadership analytics application

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The Power of Language to Shift and Reinforce Desirable Systems Transformation

2023

Synthesizing years of learning into published work of a framework for scaling community-oriented systems research and design

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Collaboration Science
Methods at Scale

2022 - 2023

Scaling community engagement and system methods for engineering accreditation in Canada

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Creating inclusive hospital spaces amongst systemic tensions

2021 - 2022

Systemic service design aiding a healthcare system to listen deeply to its community and foster systemic change in care experience

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About me

Hello, my name is Ruslan. I am a designer and researcher looking to support lasting system’s change with local communities.

I got my first taste of design for social impact back in my Bachelor’s of Industrial design from the University of Alberta. From there, I followed my passion to the Master’s of Design for Health program at OCAD University.

Since then I’ve worked at a transformation consultancy and co-founded a tech startup. Now I am exploring the world of freelance, working to use systems-based design to help with complex problems.

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