Nicole Lavelle

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nicolelavelle@gmail.com 
DESIGN

Rural Futures Deck


A card deck for generative, collective imagining, brimming with poetic inspiration. 

Co-created with Hi-Vis Agency and Springboard for the Arts’ Rural Regenerator Fellows
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Tokyo Seeds


At a design residency with Japan’s national train company, I researched and pitched community engagement strategy to the company’s culture leaders.

Yes, it was a little bit like MTV’s The Real World for designers.

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End of Life Times


A community newspaper exploring death and dying, in an effort to live more fully.

For Reimagine
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Personal Voice Workbook


A workbook for introspection, exploration, and finding your voice. 

Dropbox.Design Culture Kits, open-source resources for the design community. 

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Diversity and Inclusion Toolkit


A multi-faceted tool for taking steps towards more diverse and inclusive culture at work and beyond.
Dropbox.Design Culture Kits, open-source resources for the design community. 

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Team Values Toolkit


A toolkit for teams to align and establish common values.

Dropbox.Design Culture Kits, open-source resources for the design community.

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Research at Dropbox


As the dedicated designer for the Research Team at Dropbox, I helped user researchers transform their complex findings into clear, narrative artifacts for product teams. 

I also created a tangible library of engaging tools and materials for co-creative user research workshops.

Illustration by Rob Moss Wilson



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Virtual First User Journeys


Day-in-the-life maps to help employees understand their new relationships to the office.



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Future-of-Work Consulting


Creative consulting on ways to nurture community and build culture for newly decentralized teams. 



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Company Culture Workshop


An engaging, social, and playful workshop for every single employee of a large biotech corporation, to help drive meaningful adoption of new company-culture tenets.

With IDEO



21st Century Design Skills


A mainstage presentation on the Future of Work, for Dropbox Staff Researcher Jennifer Brook.

Presented at the the Awwwards Conference
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Open Engagement


Design direction for six iterations of an annual art conference, all with an eye for flexible, living identity systems and DIY modes of production.

Complete design archive coming soon!



Jennifer Brook Identity


Visual identity and website for a brilliant multi-hyphenate design practitioner.

With Taryn Cowart and Sarah Baugh

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Presentations


Yes, I love making decks. The more complex the information, the better. The bigger the ideas, the better!

Sample slides from pitch decks, thought leadership, workshops, toolkits, All-Hands, visioning, and funding rounds.

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Lookbook


Playful visual projects for artists, musicians, creative businesses, and cultural organizations. Branding, merch, illustration, graphics.

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