We need to continually look for opportunities to reinvent ourselves

Whether it's in our daily lives, in a relationship, or with our chosen career path. We need to energize our lives with introspection, and fresh perspectives to connect us to purpose.

The creativity of a group...

...will always outweigh the genius of the individual. Open yourself up to collaboration, and you'll open up new worlds of ideas.

Save the pieces...

...and maybe we can fix it. Don't throw a failed idea away--find the nugget and work with it, refine it, and learn from it. Look at things from another angle, and the story may change.

BIO

Dan Gamber

Included here is a small glimpse into the joy and purpose I have found designing experiences and products across various fields. The eclectic opportunities of working in retail, healthcare, automotive, and aerospace industries have given me a broad perspective. I have over 30 years of product and experience design, management, and leading design thinking strategy which has evolved into a focus on innovation and digital experience leadership.

Experience Leader

Some of the opportunities I've had over the years to have an impact across various companies and industries

HR Experiences

I managed the 15 person UX team supporting the transformation of all HR experiences, affecting the core systems for 440,000 associates, as well as providing strategy and mentorship to business partners in these efforts.

App Ecosystem

I developed and maintained a two year roadmap for a digital suite of consumer facing apps as part of a $300MM book of business in the Healthcare Industry.

Call Center Transformation

I supported experience design for a 5 billion dollar focus of business, leveraging stakeholder relationships to drive digital transformation which exceeded all target metrics by 150% in associate efficiencies and VOC.

Health and Wellness App

I created user flows and conceptual wireframes for a $1.2MM project successfully rolled out to Fortune 100 clients. *App showed a 400% increase in engagement over legacy apps

Strategy

Storyboarding can help drive home the experience by creating an emotional connection to the story. This can further help facilitate alignment with stakeholders at all levels.

Using an adaptive framework for the Well-Being Together app created an experience that was as engaging on mobile as it was on desktop.

Having a keen strategy for the organization, structure, and labelling of content was necessary for creating a sustainably engaging experience across apps at Healthways.

Does persona have an e on the end or not? That depends on if it's plural or singular--either way, understanding the user is key for design thinking to succeed. Not incidentally, the greatest value of personae is the act of the team coming together to create them.

Moving RCT's web experiences to a managed CMS environment was key to facilitating a sustainable content management strategy; driving fresh and dynamic experiences.

Recommendations

Dan is a gifted practitioner of design thinking. He brings this Renaissance mix of interests, experiences, passion, and raw talent to everything he does, whether it's user interface development, wireframing and prototyping, materials design, graphics arts, writing and producing original short films, or publishing novels. It all somehow fits together in a brilliant display of understanding what people want from a product, and designing an experience that delivers.

Bryan McClarey Vice President of Product Development at axialHealthcare

I loved working with Dan. He was the creative, artsy guy on a team that was otherwise not very artsy and creative. He challenged us to think outside of the box, to look at the box from a different perspective, and to question whether we needed the box in the first place!

Donna George Senior Director at Ankura

Dan worked for a consumer packaging company known for its strength in relationships with customers, but it was Dan who transformed the creative process to communicate this through the brand and product experiences. He consistently brings the focus of the end customer to all creative projects.

Andy Windham President, Chief Strategy Officer at Crawford Strategy