My approach to design
Core skillset
Product Design
Service Design, Service Blueprinting & Roadmapping
Customer Experience, Employee Experience
Design Research / Generative & Evaluative
Strategic Design / Foresight & Innovation Strategies
Co-Creation & Creative Workshop Facilitation
Stakeholder alignment
Public Speaking
Design Mentorship
Community Building
I run a Speculative Design Community called Agreeable Futures
Previously ran the IXDA beirut & LA chapters
I weave empathetic research, design thinking, & a business mindset, to support businesses and non-profits to create better customer experiences & innovation strategies. I’m profoundly motivated by working with emerging technology & media, developing tools for design justice, and incorporating foresight to design alternate futures to the challenging wicked problems we face.
About Me
Hey, I’m Tatiana -
My Education
Master of Arts in Industrial & Strategic Design Aalto University of Arts Design & Architecture, Helsinki, Finland
Bachelor of Arts in Interior Architecture & Industrial Design ALBA University / Beirut, Lebanon
Design Futures Talks
2020
Designit Radio / Yello Podcast “The not-so-simple act of future prediction”
Cape Town
IXDD World Interaction Design Day 2020 World Interaction Design Day (Cape Town) “ How speculative design stands for trust and responsibility”
▄ 2019
Singapore
DesignUp (Singapore)
Helsinki
Seattle
▄ 2019 Interaction 19 (Seattle)
Shenzhen
▄ 2019 - Impossible Design (Shenzhen)
Bangalore
▄ 2019 - DesignUp (Bangalore)
Lyon
▄ 2018 Interaction 18 (Lyon)
▄ 2017 Monocle Radio ▄
Press
▄ CMO by Adobe How to design for a speculative future
▄ Dezeen “Lebanese students anticipate future human needs for Beirut Design Week exhibition"
▄ Design Indaba “From harvesting fungi from the body to hormone infused cocktails, are these the products of the future?”
▄ FRAME “DIY DNA manipulation and flesh coins – exhibition speculates on future needs”
▄ Near Future Laboratory’s LSN Global “Beirut – The Speculative Needs XOXO exhibition explores the purpose that design will serve in the future.”