Speaking
Sharing my professional journey, perspective, and what I’ve learned along the way has helped me create meaningful, lasting connections with others, as well as be a coach for designing impactful experiences.
How It All Comes Together
- 600+ students taught in an environment modeling and demonstrating the value of design and its application to business and social impact
- 65+ articles, interviews, keynotes and workshops where my work has been highlighted and insights and practices shared
- 8 countries where I've worked, collaborated, and learned alongside talented and inspirational people doing amazing things
Articles
- Chicago Designers Aim to Tune Up New Orleans Music Scene (Crain’s Chicago Business, May 2012)
- UX For Good Exploring Tech Solutions To Musicians’ Problems (OffBeat Magazine, May 2012)
- Kigali Genocide Memorial works with international designers to enhance visitor experience (Kigali Genocide Memorial, July 2015)
- Designing for Action, Not Reaction: UX for Good and The Kigali Genocide Memorial (Adobe, September 2017)
- Designing a Gateway For Change: The Meaning of UX For Good (Adobe, September 2017)
Podcast Interviews
- The SpoolCast: Jason Ulaszek & Brian Winters - From Research to Experience Roadmaps (Episode #224, November 2013)
- From Blueprint to Solved: UX for Good & Inzovu (May 2019)
- Future Forum Podcast: From Engagement to Activation (April 2020)
- The Informed Life by Jorge Arango: Interview with Jason Ulaszek (January 2021)
- Try Catch Podcast: Your UX Questions Answered (FarmCredit Services of America, May 2022)
- Business as UNusual Podcast: Design for Social Impact (June 2024)
- Designing A Better Way Through Cancer (The Skinny on Entrepreneurship, February 2025)
Conferences & Events
- The Federal Reserve’s (Internal Conference): Selling the Value of User-Centered Design (Kansas City 2009 & San Francisco 2010)
- UX for Good: Partnered with Streetwise, CeaseFire Illinois, The Third Teacher, The Adler School and the Global Lives Project to create new ways of helping at-risk populations in the city (Chicago 2011; Video Recap)
- Webvisions: Play to Change - Using Game Mechanics to Motivate Your Audience (Chicago 2012, Portland 2013 & Barcelona 2013; with Carolyn Chandler)
- UX for Good: Partnered with the GRAMMY Foundation (MusiCares) and Clinton Global Initiative to identify new ways of supporting the local musical economy (New Orleans 2012; Final Report | Video Recap)
- Interactions Conference: Setting Course - Design Research to Experience Roadmap (Toronto 2013; with Brian Winters)
- UX for Good: Partnered with the Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Understanding to find new ways of instilling empathy in the hearts and minds of children (Vancouver, British Columbia 2013; Final Report | Video Recap)
- Webvisions: Doors, Walls & Old Trees: Prioritizing to Get Simple (Portland, Barcelona & Chicago 2013)
- Webvisions: Doing Your Best Work for Social Good (Panel Moderator, Portland 2013)
- Webvisions: The Heart Shaped Toolbox Project Hackathon (Portland 2013; Presentation)
- HATCH Festival: The Story of UX for Good (Bozeman 2013)
- Sketch Camp: The 3 C's of Sketching (Chicago 2013)
- World IA Day: Exercising UX for Social Impact Workshop (Washington, DC 2014; with Jeff Leitner)
- SXSW: Creating Impact: Story of UX for Good (Austin 2014)
- UX for Good: Partnered with the Aegis Trust and the Kigali Genocide Memorial to develop a framework to convert feelings of genocide into humanitarian action (Kigali and London 2014; Final Report)
- Electronic Resources and Libraries (ER&L) UX Day: UX for Good Workshop (Austin 2014; with Jeff Leitner)
- Giant UX: Play to Change Workshop (Charleston 2014; with Carolyn Chandler)
- Mapping the Inzovu Curve: Redesigning Museums for Good (virtual/in-person, multi-city international, 2015)
- Design for Action: The Inzovu Curve Workshop (Washington, DC 2014; with Jeff Leitner)
- RGD Speaker Series: The Future of Human-centered Design: IA Design + Social Good Story (Livestream 2015)
- MuseumNEXT: Rethinking Activation within the Memorial Experience: The Inzovu Curve Workshop (Geneva 2015; with Erin Casali and Roberta Tassi)
- Webvisions: The Intersection Between Social Good and Business Goals (Panel Moderator, Chicago 2015)
- SXSW: Social Good Hackathon (Austin 2015; with Brad Smith)
- Webvisions: Innovation through Experience Design: Experience Designers as Innovators (Chicago 2015; with Brian Winters)
- US State Department’s UX Exponential: A Story of Innovation Through Experience Design (Washington, DC 2016)
- UX Poland: An Undesigned World (Keynote, Warsaw 2016) (Interview) (Presentation)
- UX Poland: Rethinking Activist Engagement to Support the Refugee System (Warsaw 2016; with Draginja Nadażdin from Amnesty International)
- Organizational Intelligence Forum: A Story of: Innovation Through Experience Design (Boston 2016)
- Product Intelligence & Innovation Summit: Harnessing the Value Of Design to Create Value & Affect Change (Chicago 2016)
- IA Summit Italy: Make Your Mark: An Undesigned World (Rome 2016)
- IA Summit Italy: Selling the Value of Design Workshop (Rome 2016)
- UXPA China: Design Team Maturity Workshop (Suzhou 2016)
- UXPA China: Selling the Value of Design Workshop (Suzhou 2016)
- JPK CX Summit: Maturing Your Design Capability (Chicago 2017)
- JPK CX Summit: UX Design Team Maturity Workshop (San Diego 2017)
- Service Experience Conference: Design on the Edge: Lessons Learned by Falling in Love with the Problem (San Francisco 2017) (Sketchnotes) (Summary/Quote)
- Connecting Law & Memory: The Story of the Inzovu Curve (Amsterdam 2017)
- Connecting Law & Memory: Moving Visitors to Action: The Inzovu Curve Workshop (Amsterdam 2017; with Roberta Tassi)
- Abbvie Guest Designer Lecture Series: The Complexity of Simple (Chicago 2018)
- DePaul XD End of Year Keynote: Design on the Edge (Chicago 2018)
- Product Strategy & Experience Forum: A Story of Innovation Through Experience Design (Chicago 2018)
- Visitor Experience Conference: Moving Visitors to Action: The Inzovu Curve Workshop (San Antonio 2018)
- ICOM MPR: The Heart of the Matter: Activation by Design (Chicago 2018)
- Colaboramerica: Design + Social Impact: Lessons Learned by Falling in Love with the Problem (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2018) (Sketchnotes)
- Colaboramerica: Moving Visitors to Action: The Inzovu Curve Workshop (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2018)
- DePaul’s Optimizing Digital Innovation Conference: Innovating with CX/UX/UI Panel (Moderator; Chicago 2019)
- Untethered Conference: Conversation on Experience Journeys (Online 2020)
- Gallagher Design Guest Lecture: The Story of the Inzovu Curve (Online/Internal 2020)
- Abbott Guest Lecture for the Digital Transformation and Experience Team: Stories of Design Impact (Online/Internal 2022)
- AIGA Design Conference: Widening the Margins of Design: Amplifying the Scale and Scope of Design (Online, October 2024; with Jeff Leitner)
What People Are Saying
I absolutely loved the workshop and thought Jason was an excellent facilitator. Improving our customer and employee experience is one of the most important challenges we need to tackle right now. Workshop Participant
Profiles & Citations
- State of the Art of Personas by Jonathan Browne (highlighted process and work samples, Forrester 2013)
- Digital CX Teams in a Post-PC Era by Sam Stern (highlighted methodology and case study, Forrester 2013)
- The Inzovu Curve: The Framework and Collection of Insights and Tools (website and reports; with UX for Good 2014)
- Interpreting the Impossible: The Inzovu Curve asks how can interpretation turn emotion into action? (Association for Heritage Interpretation Volume 21, Number 2, Winter 2016, by Charlotte Pratley)
- How to Run a Design Critique (by Jason Cranford Teague in Smashing Magazine, August 2016)
- Harness The Power Of Emergent Behavior To Design Great Employee Experiences by Sam Stern (interviewed for report research, Forrester 2017)
- The Rwanda Peace Education Program: Stories of Peace (featured story of work completed by UX for Good, 2017)
- Rwandair In-Flight Magazine (Inzozi): Kigali Geocide Memorial Spreads the Value of Ubumuntu (featured story of work supported by Inzovu, March/May 2018)
- The Future of Museum and Gallery Design: Purpose, Process, Perception (various authors, interviewed and highlighted by Clare Brown in Chapter 16 Unboxing History Exhibitions: Experience Design in Museum Practice, 2018)
- Connecting Law and Memory Manual (contributed chapter on Moving Us to Action: The New Model of Museums and Memorials, 2018)
- Ubumuntu Digital Education Platform Launch (launch event for the digital platform; Kigali 2019)
Courses
- User Experience Design Practicum (Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media at DePaul University)
- Interaction Design and Information Architecture (Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media at DePaul University)
- Independent Study (Various) (Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media at DePaul University)
- Design as a Business Tool: Research to Experience Roadmap (UIE Virtual Seminar for Jared Spool)
- Selling the Value of Design (UIE Virtual Seminar for Jared Spool)
- Principles of Interaction Design (Interact / Interaction Design Web Education Community Group; with Carolyn Chandler)
What People Are Saying
Thank you for the work you are doing as a professor. Having the opportunity to use my UX skills for a charitable cause was extremely fulfilling and impactful to me as a designer. Through your class, I learned that UX makes the world a better place. I am so grateful I had you as a professor. Hallie K., DePaul Student
Awards
- Interaction Awards People’s Choice (as part of work in New Orleans with UX for Good in 2013)
- Allstate Insurance Company Chairman's Award (2005)