Corrine Ellsworth Beaumont is a designer, entrepreneur, researcher and university educator currently living in London, specialising in design thinking.

What’s design thinking?

Design thinking is a process for innovation that involves collaborating with many disciplines and putting users at the centre of a product or service. It uses a mix of science and art methods to solve wicked problems.

My career is a mix of design, business and education with a bit of farm girl thrown in. I enjoy tackling large ambiguous problems and creating harmony in what appears to be in opposition. I’m not an either-or kind of person, why choose one when there’s a way to get both? As a designer, I’m well practiced at solving those kinds of dilemmas in branding, products and services. As a researcher I have a whole set of investigative tools to draw from that make sure the meaningful problems are found. This I believe is possible through empathy, and taking a step back to realise how someone else might use, feel or understand what I’ve made as if I’m looking at it for the first time.

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My Design Thinking Process
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10 random facts about me that have (almost) nothing to do with design:

  1. I used to sing the Canadian and American Anthems at minor league baseball games.
  2. I once won a $5000 scholarship for sending an ad agency a deck of cards and a package of hotdog buns.
  3. I hijacked an Austrian train using chocolate, and gained access to the train controls and the passenger announcement system.
  4. I was pulled over by a cop for driving, not because I was 11, but because I wasn’t wearing a helmet while driving an ATV on the highway.
  5. I ran for office as the Superintendent of Education for the state of Idaho at age 16.
  6. I have been kicked in the head a few times as as gymnastics coach. I also landed on my neck in a spectacular back flip on a super spring floor. The ambulance was also called during an ill-conceived olympic move on my backyard trampoline. Luckily this wasn’t all on the same day.
  7. I am a softball pitcher, and have only been knocked to the ground once with a hit to the chest. It was a good hit but she didn’t get to third.
  8. I had a run-in with a buffalo. Luckily the fence held.
  9. I started teaching university at age 20.
  10. I can hum and whistle at the same time.

Software knowledge:

Started with Photoshop 3.0 and Illustrator 5.0 and InDesign 1.0.

Worked in web design before Dreamweaver existed and can read HTML, CSS and really ruin Javascripts if I want to (hence why I have no idea why this page is showing up twice!).

Also familiar with TypeTool, Wordpress, Google-Analytics, Flash, Premier, After Effects, and Office apps.

Corrine Ellsworth Beaumont is a designer, entrepreneur, researcher and university educator currently living in London, specialising in design thinking.

What’s design thinking?

Design thinking is a process for innovation that involves collaborating with many disciplines and putting users at the centre of a product or service. It uses a mix of science and art methods to solve wicked problems.

My career is a mix of design, business and education with a bit of farm girl thrown in. I enjoy tackling large ambiguous problems and creating harmony in what appears to be in opposition. I’m not an either-or kind of person, why choose one when there’s a way to get both? As a designer, I’m well practiced at solving those kinds of dilemmas in branding, products and services. As a researcher I have a whole set of investigative tools to draw from that make sure the meaningful problems are found. This I believe is possible through empathy, and taking a step back to realise how someone else might use, feel or understand what I’ve made as if I’m looking at it for the first time.

————>

My Design Thinking Process
howiwork

10 random facts about me that have (almost) nothing to do with design:

  1. I used to sing the Canadian and American Anthems at minor league baseball games.
  2. I once won a $5000 scholarship for sending an ad agency a deck of cards and a package of hotdog buns.
  3. I hijacked an Austrian train using chocolate, and gained access to the train controls and the passenger announcement system.
  4. I was pulled over by a cop for driving, not because I was 11, but because I wasn’t wearing a helmet while driving an ATV on the highway.
  5. I ran for office as the Superintendent of Education for the state of Idaho at age 16.
  6. I have been kicked in the head a few times as as gymnastics coach. I also landed on my neck in a spectacular back flip on a super spring floor. The ambulance was also called during an ill-conceived olympic move on my backyard trampoline. Luckily this wasn’t all on the same day.
  7. I am a softball pitcher, and have only been knocked to the ground once with a hit to the chest. It was a good hit but she didn’t get to third.
  8. I had a run-in with a buffalo. Luckily the fence held.
  9. I started teaching university at age 20.
  10. I can hum and whistle at the same time.

Software knowledge:

Started with Photoshop 3.0 and Illustrator 5.0 and InDesign 1.0.

Worked in web design before Dreamweaver existed and can read HTML, CSS and really ruin Javascripts if I want to (hence why I have no idea why this page is showing up twice!).

Also familiar with TypeTool, Wordpress, Google-Analytics, Flash, Premier, After Effects, and Office apps.