Steven Dean

Designer & Builder

Measure twice, cut once.

About

Service and user experience designer for health care applications, products and services.

Projects: G51 Studio

Adjunct Faculty at Parsons The New School for Design.

Service Design

I work with companies to design and build simple tools and services to improve people's lives and their health.

Creating useful and desirable products based on techniques and principles of user-centered design.

Quantified Self

I'm the organizer for the NY Quantified Self Meetup, modeled on the Bay Area group started by Gary Wolf and Kevin Kelly.

A regular show and tell for self-trackers who hope to gain more knowledge about themselves, others and the world around them.

Teaching

Adjunct Faculty, School of Design Strategies, Parsons The New School for Design, New York.

Currently teaching service design in health care to BFA students in the Integrated Design Program.

Course: Health Services Innovation

Chocolate

Raw, vegan chocolate goodness.

Starting a line of raw chocolate bars with raw chef Tamara Iglesias.

Prototyping bars now like this one with goji berries, bee pollen, coconut flakes and peppermint.

Furniture

From 90 - 96, I made all kinds of furniture. I set up shop again in 2010 at Bush Terminal, Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

I studied at the School for American Crafts at RIT and got an MFA in Furniture Design from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Race Reports

Inspired by reading race reports written by endurance athletes, I decided to build a website with Tom Dolan and Earl Walton that's dedicated to collecting these stories.

RaceReports.com

Endurance

Ironman Lake Placid 2007. Trying like hell to get back there again.

I train with TriLife and Urban Athletics