Design for America - UC Berkeley

We officially have a presence on instagram! Come follow us on our platform to stay posted on our recruitment timeline, and how you can also use design to go beyond yourself! 💡✨

We will be creating official events soon, but for now mark these dates on your calendar:

IMPORTANT DATES:
- September 5, 6:30, location: Jacobs 10C (basement): Info Session
- Saturday, September 8, 11:59: Application closes
- Monday-Wednesday, September 10-12 Interviews

Hope to see you all soon! 💡✨

"That’s the paradox of the growth mindset. Although it seems to draw attention to failure, and in fact encourages us to seek out failure, it is unflaggingly optimistic. We will struggle, we will fail, we will be knocked down—but throughout, we’ll get better, and we’ll succeed in the end.” - Excerpt from the book “Switch: How to Change Things when Change is Hard.”

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Golden Bears, welcome our new Insta page, and to the Fall 2018 semester! We will be posting our recruitment timeline soon! Designers of Berkeley from all backgrounds: stay in the loop to find out about our upcoming social good projects. We’re stoked to see how you will use your talents to go beyond yourself! ✨ ————— “Notice what team leaders at IDEO are doing with the peak sand-valley visual: They are creating the expectation of failure. They are telling team members not to trust that initial flush of good feeling at the beginning of the project, because what comes next is hardship and toil and frustration. Yet, strangely enough, when they deliver this warning, it comes across as optimistic. ————— That’s the paradox of the growth mindset. Although it seems to draw attention to failure, and in fact encourages us to seek out failure, it is unflaggingly optimistic. We will struggle, we will fail, we will be knocked down—but throughout, we’ll get better, and we’ll succeed in the end.” ————— Excerpt from the book “Switch: How to Change Things when Change is Hard.” Source: “Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation” by Tim Brown

Just a reminder that applications for this Spring semester closes tonight at midnight! Feel free to message us if you have any questions :)

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Thank you to everyone who came to our info session last night! It was great to see a lot of interest and excitement from so many people! If you have any questions, feel free to message us on facebook or email us at [email protected]. THE APP CLOSES TOMORROW AT MIDNIGHT!!!! Here is the link to the app! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdzdSf59a7BMZVWrmgN8Aj_NnZthgJ8CbUTLFTAjBmH9Pzhxg/viewform

Fall 2017 Application Welcome to Design for America’s Fall 2017 application! DFA focuses on designing services and products to address prominent social justice issues in the area. This year our teams are focusing on optimizing free health care services with data and educating youth on food justice in the Bay Area. This i...