Chad P. Hall (he/him) practices as a Design Director at Artefact, which uses research, strategy, and design to envision better futures. With over 10 years of consulting experience, Hall has collaborated with clients in global health, biotechnology, and technology, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Exemplars in Global Health, Google, Meta, and Samsung, among others. Hall specializes in transforming abstract ideas into tangible, accessible, and actionable insights through visualizing datasets, mapping systems, designing frameworks, and envisioning futures. Hall co-hosts the podcast "This is Design School" alongside Jp Avila. The podcast features interviews with a diverse range of designers, exploring their journeys into the design field and how they practice design in their current work. Prior to joining the Division of Design, Hall served as an Affiliate Instructor in Human Centered Design and Engineering at the University of Washington. He holds a Master of Design from the University of Washington’s School of Art + Art History + Design and a Bachelor of Arts in Communication from Pacific Lutheran University.

Thesis work

• Chosen to speak at the School's 2016 Graduation Celebration
• Selected by the Division of Design for a 2016 de Cillia Teaching with Excellence Award
• Faculty member quote: "Chad is smart, focused, highly organized, and calm in a crisis. These are all of the qualities faculty dream of not only for tackling a thesis, but for effectively teaching hundreds of freshmen struggling through Design Foundations classes"
• Worked on research projects with Professor Tad Hirsch and Professor Karen Cheng
• Exhibited his work as part of a design exchange with Southeast University in Nanjing, China

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