Recognition and Awards
Winner: Silver award in New York Design Awards 2021: Better Future: Equity and Inclusion
I received silver in the New York Design Awards - Better Future: Equity and Inclusion category for my project Kindred which empowers all pregnancies through community-based support.
More details can be found here
Speaker: Design Inbada, part of Dutch Design Week
I was a speaker at the Design Indaba Conference in 2021 as part of the Gender Equality Special Interest group. I spoke about my platform which aims to provide equal maternity care to black mothers. Birth Reborn draws on the healing power of community connection and ancestral knowledge, made accessible through a thoughtfully designed app.
Design Indaba is an annual conference and digital platform with an aim to help create a better world through creativity.
Feature in NYCxDesign: The Roundup
I was featured in NYCxDesign's The Roundup episode NYCxDESIGN featured my work on how design can improve maternal care and sharing the results of my year-long design journey.
We Are Next Podcast Intern Field notes
Insights on my experience working in design at ad agency R/GA
Podcast episode and writeup can be found here.
A Design Manifesto
A short piece of writing on my point of view and design process.
Medium Blog. August 2019 https://medium.com/@victoriaayo/a-design-manifesto-1b1c16821091?source=friends_link&sk=94b7483b655c2231cf9a59775b994c7b
Improving Healthcare Through Human Centered Design
ThoughtWorks Insights Blog. June 2016
https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/my-learnings-hxrefactored-2016
Reflection Through Design: Immigrant Women’s Self-Reflection on Managing Health and Wellness
CHI'14: Proceedings of the 2014 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 2014
I am What I Eat: Identity & Critical Thinking in an Online Health Forum For Kids.
CHI'12: Proceedings of the 2012 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
April 2012