Lecturer, Center for Integrated Design
Jacob Rader is a designer and maker exploring simple human ideas to tackle the world's wicked problems. He leads research and design projects that inform strategy, product, and policy decision-making. In addition to teaching at the Center for Integrated Design at UT Austin, Jacob supports organizations operating across the healthcare and social support spaces.
Throughout his career, Jacob has had the privilege of applying a human-centric approach to projects as varied as the design of multimodal interactions for mixed reality technologies to farming and financial tools for Myanmar's working class. He's helped envision a more compassionate way for veterans to apply for benefits and a first-of-its-kind educational platform for first-generation college students.
Previously, he was an integrated design lead for the Design Institute for Health, a radical collaboration between Dell Medical School and the College of Fine Arts at The University of Texas at Austin.