Jonah Houston

Jonah Houston

Job Title: 
Design Strategy Director at D-Ford
Bio: 
Jonah is a Design Strategy Director at D-Ford in Palo Alto, CA. D-Ford is the human-centered design organization within the Ford Motor Company and is chartered with helping bring the tools and methods of design into the 118-year-old legacy company. His work is primarily focused on understanding the intersection of the changing context of work and transportation.
 
Prior to Ford, Jonah spent nearly two decades at IDEO holding a number of roles from engineering to organizational design. He has worked to bring design thinking into many different contexts from the Intelligence Community to start-ups.
 
Outside of work, Jonah is a father of three children and two Samoyeds. You will often find him perfecting his sourdough or otherwise tinkering around in the kitchen.