Stanford Graduate School of Business

Teaching and Learning HUB

Project Overview

Stanford GSB's Teaching and Learning Hub (TLH) has many departments to help fulfill various needs to support faculty and staff. As part of the Media Design team, I am dedicated to creating engaging content for teaching and learning at Stanford GSB. I design a flexible library of digital templates and branded systems for research communication.

My Goal

Partner with faculty and departments to understand their publishing needs, create component libraries, and implement templates in WordPress and Google Sites. My goal is to create user-friendly systems that anyone can adopt, regardless of technical skill.

TLH Media and Design Website

UX/UI Design
Brand System Implementation
Presentation & Template Design
WordPress Front-End

Stanford GSB's TLH Media and Design team is one of the first of it's kind, working directly with faculty, and using the power of curiosity, design, and storytelling to illuminate and educate. As part of our designing for understanding, we create engaging multimedia to communicate complex concepts, leverage easy-to-edit websites to bring your content online, and add polish and clarity to your classroom as well as other teaching materials. As a Media and Design team within an educational setting, it is important to be able to showcase our offerings in a clear and concise form in order to attract partnership with faculty, as well as educate on Stanford design best practices.

Stanford GSB is a part of the larger Stanford University, and as such, the larger Stanford brand needs to be considered when developing public facing websites under the Stanford umbrella. Extensive research and development went into both the TLH Media and Design website, as well as the Teaching and Learning Hub website itself, in order to create a more cohesive and holistic experience across the various GSB websites.

Continued development of existing Media and Design website pages help to better inform of the services we provided to the greater Stanford GSB faculty and staff..

Outcome

New design systems reduce publishing time across departments, improve content consistency by increasing internal usage of standardized templates, and enable wider adoption of Stanford’s brand guidelines across digital platforms.

What I learned

Designing for academic teams taught me the importance of balancing usability and clarity with brand consistency. Accessibility and legibility are non-negotiable in educational tools. I also learned how scalable systems can democratize content creation, especially when paired with thoughtful documentation and support. Empowering non-designers with good systems amplifies the impact of design.