Nishant Jacob

San Francisco Bay Area United States

Student

Design

The son of two design entrepreneurs, I was born and raised in Bangalore India. I ran my first company, ecoconfluence, in India which was a social enterprise that employed a self-help group of rural tailors to produced cloth eco-bags which were sold as a substitute for plastic bags in super markets. Clean product design and effective website UI was a major focus and the company was run on the principles of design thinking. At Stanford University I taught a class on design thinking with a focus on design thinking in k-12 curriculum. We ran design workshops in using the Stanford d.school's k-12 lab methodology with 150 middle school students in New York and 200 students in the Bay Area. I ...