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W5 + How: Who, What, Where, When, Why and How
This is the baseline of all my workshops. It's from W5+H we capture our variables and can start to figure out where we are, where we...
Mar 7, 2024


Metropolis, a hypothetical city, where things can happen.
In my first book, "Metropolis", we illustrate critical components that are part of every story set up. Those elements are: location...
Mar 7, 2024


The Failure Pattern
I've been consulting with companies in a lot of different industries, using different technologies, and different strategies to achieve...
Mar 7, 2024


2017 - Stephanie in Metropolis
I started pulling myself and my friends into Metropolis, the imagined city where everything is as it should be, and somehow it freed us...
Mar 7, 2024


Coloring: Amelia Earhart
As I was coming up with inspiring concepts for Vision Architecture workshops for folks to get ideas about what they'd really love to be...
Mar 7, 2024


Metropolis: Black Car
This was the first chapter in my book called, "Metropolis". I featured graphic novel storyboards that told stories of how things could...
Mar 6, 2024


www.stephaniehayden.com Updates
I finally decided to spend time gathering all of my work and putting it online. Note, I've had my stephaniehayden.com website since...
Mar 5, 2024


2013 - Oklahoma City
The super cool Oklahoma State Troopers allowed me to come spend some time listening to what their daily lives are like and the insane...
Mar 5, 2024


1976 - My dad & I at Disneyland
My dad was my best friend and taught me a lot. He died a few years after this picture, from a heart attack, when he was 39 years old....
Mar 5, 2024


2019 - Melrose Deep East Oakland
I stayed in AirBnBs for about 2.5 years throughout the 146 micro-communities in Oakland to try to meet people and see what they really...
Mar 5, 2024


2009 - Jumping instead of flying
I was flying helicopters a lot, then some pilot friends took me up and I got into a fixed-wing license too. I started thinking it might...
Mar 5, 2024


2021 - Ankle Surgery
Man, this was a rough year, and during COVID lockdown. I'm so lucky to have such amazing neighbors in Deep East Oakland who brought me...
Mar 5, 2024


2022 - Zoom Meeting Hell
I was working at Gap Inc. in San Francisco when COVID hit and we all started working from home. I started my next contract at Intuit,...
Mar 5, 2024


2009 - Idyllwild Reunion
I spent some time catching up with friends from Idyllwild at a big reunion we put together. There's something amazing about getting back...
Mar 5, 2024


2020 - East Oakland Apocalypse, Not only COVID
Brutal. Every. Day. This is not a filter, it's what the air was Sept. 9, 2020 in Oakland.
Mar 5, 2024


2016 - Chicago Nov. 7
I started doing a lot of public speaking on future technologies and how we need to creativity to design our way into more connected...
Mar 5, 2024


2016 - Vision Architecture
I started incorporating illustrations in my work engaging youth in becoming the architects of their own future cities. This was some of...
Mar 5, 2024


2007 - Flying
The 2000s were when I met my husband in Chicago (now ex-husband), we moved back to the Bay Area, I traveled a ton for a software job and...
Mar 5, 2024


2000 - Leaving Chicago
I went to college in London, San Francisco, and Chicago during these years studying psychology, architecture, art, and technology. I got...
Mar 5, 2024


1990 - High school graduation
Wow. This was at my high school graduation. I don't know what else to say.
Mar 5, 2024


1980s - Growing up
These were fun, tragic, wild years. This is my brother (we don't share parents) growing up. We went everywhere together and had each...
Mar 5, 2024


1970s - It started early
I was born in Chicago, moved to Hollywood, then up to Idyllwild where I grew up in the woods with a bunch of other fun, wild, feral kids....
Mar 5, 2024


And...I'm back! Where is everybody?
Man, it has been a long time since I've been ready to rejoin the...Metaverse, universe, society, social media, COVID, techastrophe,...
Mar 5, 2024


Why I was missing on Social Media: FB, IG, & X
I know, if you found me it probably wasn't on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or X. Impossible, right? I was an early user on most social...
Mar 5, 2024
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