My portfolio documents strategic design work I led across three distinct phases of practice: current innovation and foresight work (2023–2025), foundational corporate and service transformation (2014–2022), and additional engagements spanning over a decade.
Across these projects, I led multidisciplinary efforts spanning service and product design, UX, research, innovation, and foresight.
The work consistently focuses on organisational challenges that cannot be solved through execution alone, moments where strategy, structure, and culture require fundamental reconsideration.
Projects range from product ecosystems and cross-functional alignment to governance frameworks and anticipatory systems, unified by a commitment to creating conceptual infrastructure that enables decision-making in complex environments.
Three years of strategic design work at PMI and Liminal Discovery, operating as embedded practitioner across product, service, and organisational transformation.
My work focuses on creating conceptual infrastructure—shared language, frameworks, and strategic artefacts—that enables alignment and decision-making in complex systems.
Co-founder and head of strategic design and foresight systems, responsible for the conceptual architecture, foresight methodology, human-AI collaboration model, decision infrastructure, and product strategy behind L-I-F-T.
Led the translation of futures thinking into an operational, AI-assisted platform combining signal detection, structured sense-making, scenario exploration, and traceable strategic decision support.
Worked across strategic design, service design, workflow architecture, research synthesis, and AI-enabled systems orchestration.
Organisations increasingly invest in foresight, AI-assisted intelligence, and trend analysis, yet struggle to transform fragmented information into shared strategic action.
Most existing approaches remain episodic: consultant reports, workshops, dashboards, or disconnected AI prompts that fail to create continuity, organisational memory, or transparent decision rationale.
Research with foresight practitioners, strategists, NGOs, innovation teams, and transformation leaders revealed recurring problems around information overload, weak traceability, fragmented workflows, and overreliance on external consultants.
Led qualitative research, competitive analysis, and strategic framing across foresight systems, AI-assisted decision tools, and organisational workflows.
Designed the core L-I-F-T methodology combining:
Co-developed a modular foresight workflow architecture integrating live ingestion pipelines, review systems, signal memory, observatory views, and human-in-the-loop AI reasoning.
Defined the product's responsible technology principles around transparency, interpretability, human agency, and collaborative intelligence.
Developed L-I-F-T into a fully testable working prototype for AI-assisted foresight and strategic sense-making.
The system now supports live signal ingestion, structured review workflows, cloud-based deployment, search-based intelligence gathering, observatory interfaces, and longitudinal signal analysis.
Positioned L-I-F-T as a hybrid alternative to consultant-led foresight, generic AI chat interfaces, and backward-looking BI systems by combining automation with human-centred interpretation and decision traceability.
Early validation research showed strong resonance around transparency, continuity, collaborative intelligence, and traceable decision-making across public, nonprofit, and commercial sectors.
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L-I-F-T is an integrative foresight system that turns purpose and hypotheses into grounded, actionable futures.
www.L-I-F-T.com
Author and strategic designer, responsible for research, framing, writing, and publication across independent platforms and client-facing contexts.
Many organisations struggle to reflect on change while operating under constant pressure to deliver. Strategy is often reduced to optimisation, leaving little space to
question assumptions, power structures, or long-term consequences.
Through writing and public reflection, I explored liminality as an organisational condition, focusing on anticipation, uncertainty, and the ethical implications of design and technology on the Liminal Discovery blog, LinkedIn, and my personal design blog bounce.designSTRTGY.com.
I developed a series of essays and articles combining design research, futures thinking, systems theory, and cultural critique.
Used what-if questions and liminal scenarios to reframe organisational challenges, making abstract shifts tangible and discussable. Integrated these reflections into
workshops, talks, and client conversations to provoke dialogue beyond immediate project constraints.
Established a visible thought leadership position around liminality, anticipation, and organisational responsibility.
The work supports strategic conversations with clients, informed internal practice development, and positioned design as a reflective, sense-making discipline rather than a purely executional function.
Strategic design lead, responsible for research, analysis, and synthesis across teams, bridging service design, product design, and organisational governance.
Phillip Morris International operated a complex ecosystem of digital products spanning web, device interfaces, and companion apps. A central web design system was increasingly used as a governance layer for all touchpoints, creating friction as marketing-oriented standards could not cover product UI, device constraints, or regulatory requirements.
Conducted qualitative analysis with stakeholders across web, product, UX, and engineering to map existing governance practices, implicit rules, and decision paths. Synthesised findings into a governance-focused perspective, distinguishing design systems, design assets, and decision ownership across platforms.
Provided a clear diagnosis of structural gaps in design governance and concrete recommendations for separating marketing-driven web standards from product and device design needs.
Strategic design lead, responsible for research, analysis, and synthesis across service design, product design, and organisational workflows.
A large cross-functional product team was struggling to deliver consistently despite strong individual capabilities.
Delays, friction with external teams, and growing coordination overhead indicated systemic issues rather than execution failures.
At the same time, the organisation was preparing to transition from a project-based delivery model to a product-based operating model, creating a need for clarity on ownership, workflows, and decision-making.
Designed and conducted cross-functional qualitative research, including 12 in depth anonymous interviews across business, UX, solution design, development, QA, and delivery.
Mapped the actual end-to-end workflow, including external dependencies, and synthesised findings into systemic insights. Connected observed workflow gaps to
the organisation’s broader transition towards product-based ways of working.
Delivered a clear diagnosis of structural and organisational root causes behind delivery friction.
Provided actionable recommendations to support end-to-end ownership, earlier cross-functional alignment, and more sustainable product team structures.
The work became a shared reference to ground discussions and guide the shift from project-based to product-based operations.
Strategic design lead, responsible for service and product design, use case framing, and early-stage evaluation across user, business, and ecosystem perspectives.
Phillip Morris International was exploring future use cases for the IQOS 4.3 device family ahead of detailed hardware development.
The challenge was to anticipate user needs, business implications, and ecosystem dependencies early enough to inform product direction, rather than validating concepts once technical constraints were already fixed.
I worked with cross-functional stakeholders from design, engineering, and business to identify and structure future-facing use cases before hardware specifications were finalised.
Evaluated addressed user groups, business relevance, and system dependencies. Translated abstract use cases into tangible high-level concepts through visualisation and narrative framing to support alignment and decision-
making.
We created a shared, future-oriented reference for evaluating product directions prior to hardware commitment.
Enabled earlier alignment across disciplines and reduced downstream risk by grounding technical development in clearly articulated user, business, and ecosystem considerations.
Strategic design lead, responsible for research, facilitation, and synthesis across service and product design.
PMI aimed to define and validate core use cases for the IQOS 4.2 device family to inform future product and experience development.
Teams were not yet accustomed to structured cross-functional co-creation, and existing use cases required consolidation, clarification, and validation before being tested with users.
Prepared and facilitated a multi-week discovery phase, including extensive upfront research to collect, review, and assess existing use cases.
Designed and led a large cross-functional workshop with participants from design, engineering, product, marketing, and sales to collaboratively complete, challenge, and prioritise use cases.
Managed stakeholder alignment and translated workshop outputs into structured inputs for subsequent user testing.
Established a shared set of validated use cases and a best-practice working model for cross-functional collaboration.
Improved alignment across disciplines and created a solid foundation for user testing and downstream product development.
Service design and UX design lead, responsible for concept, structure, and interaction design
Innovation roadmaps were managed through fragmented tools such as Excel and PowerPoint. Data was updated manually across regions and teams, leading to inconsistencies, outdated information, and limited shared visibility. Designers and R&D teams lacked a common view of ongoing and future innovation efforts.
To replace or complement the existing toolset with a shared, digital innovation roadmap that reduces manual effort, improves data reliability, and enables cross-functional alignment across design and R&D.
Led research and concept definition through interviews and guided conversations with global design and R&D stakeholders.
Defined vision, design drivers, and information architecture for a collaborative roadmap platform.
Designed the UX concept and interaction model, focusing on low learning curve, flexibility across use cases, and support for both strategic and tactical planning.
A validated concept for a collaborative innovation roadmap tool that connects people, projects, technologies, and time horizons in one shared platform.
The concept established a clear foundation for a navigable UX prototype and a scalable framework for future innovation planning and collaboration.
A validated concept for a collaborative innovation roadmap connecting people, projects, technologies, and time horizons within a scalable planning framework.
Product and strategic design lead, responsible for concept, content, and distribution strategy.
Organisations often struggle to question entrenched assumptions and dominant narratives, especially when facing systemic or long-term challenges. Strategic conversations tend to remain abstract or constrained by existing frameworks, limiting the ability to explore alternative futures in a concrete and participatory way.
Designed a tangible toolkit based on what-if questions to help teams reframe problems through liminal scenarios and speculative exploration. Developed the content and structure to support workshops, self-guided reflection, and facilitated sessions. Made the toolkit publicly available, distributed it through business and design schools, and integrated it into client work to support strategic reframing.
Enabled more open, critical, and future-oriented conversations across educational and organisational contexts. Positioned the toolkit as a practical entry point into foresight and systemic thinking, reinforcing design as a tool for reflection, participation, and shared agency.
Product and strategic design lead, responsible for concept, content, and distribution strategy.
As Liminal Discovery evolved, existing brand assets and presentation materials no longer supported the growing complexity of its work or the need for consistent communication across teams.
Visual inconsistency and ad-hoc slide creation weakened clarity, credibility, and reuse in both internal and external contexts.
Reviewed existing brand assets and presentation materials to identify gaps in consistency, structure, and usability.
Defined a coherent brand system and developed modular presentation templates aligned with the organisation’s narrative and visual principles.
Ensured the system supported ongoing use, adaptation, and evolution rather than one-off delivery.
Created a clear, reusable brand and presentation toolkit that improved consistency, efficiency, and coherence across client work and internal communication.
The system strengthened Liminal Discovery’s visual identity while enabling teams to focus on content and strategy rather than layout and formatting.
Strategic design lead, responsible for narrative framing, content strategy, and experience design across brand, service, and organisational perspectives.
Liminal Discovery’s public presence no longer reflected the breadth and maturity of its work.
The website and messaging focused on isolated services rather than conveying a coherent narrative about how the organisation helps clients design services, strategies, and technologies that work in real-life contexts.
The challenge was to align external positioning with internal practice and long-term direction.
complete reorganisation of the website content and homepage.
Developed a clear framing of use cases that translate complex, ongoing client work into tangible examples.
Worked closely with the team to continuously refine content, structure, and messaging as the organisation evolved.
Established a coherent and credible public positioning aligned with Liminal Discovery’s strategic intent and practice.
The website is a living asset, supporting business development, internal alignment, and long-term brand consistency rather than a static marketing deliverable.
https://liminaldiscovery.com
Foundations of my current practice, delivered at Accenture and Fjord across corporate, public, and non-profit contexts. This work established capabilities in service design, research, and implementation while surfacing the systemic patterns—governance gaps, strategic misalignment, and organisational friction—that shape how I work today.
Research lead, service and editorial design
Independent, long-term research exploring the social, emotional, and systemic impact of tourism on residents in Mallorca. The work responds to increasing tension between economic dependency and quality of everyday life.
Mixed-method research combining qualitative interviews, desk research, data synthesis, and sense-making. Findings were translated into long-form publications designed for public access and civic discourse.
Strategic design lead, research and facilitation
UNOPS operates in post-conflict and high-risk environments, working with local construction contractors to rebuild critical infrastructure. Although health and safety policies were clearly defined at headquarters level, their implementation in local contexts varied widely, leading to preventable accidents and misalignment between policy and practice.
Our approach combined global field research across multiple countries where UNOPS operates with close collaboration with local and international stakeholders. We examined how contractors are hired, how local working conditions differ, and how health and safety guidelines are communicated and applied on the ground.
The research showed that standards developed in high-regulation contexts are not easily transferable to regions shaped by different climates, work practices, cultural norms, linguistic diversity, and, in some cases, illiteracy, despite significant effort by UNOPS.
Based on these insights, an international, multidisciplinary team of engineers, construction specialists, health and safety authors, and local decision-makers worked together to adapt the guidelines and develop practical solutions, with the shared objective of reducing the fatality rate to zero.
The work created a shared understanding between headquarters and local actors, grounding policy discussions in real operational conditions. It informed adjustments to how health and safety guidelines were communicated, supported, and adopted in the field, and established a more empathetic, context-aware foundation for future implementation efforts.
Service/Product design lead, service and product innovation
As part of Zurich Insurance’s “Make the Difference” programme, the organisation explored new ways to reduce high property loss ratios caused by undetected water leaks in private homes. While water damage represented a significant financial risk, customer awareness and preventive behaviour were low, and existing solutions focused mainly on post-damage claims handling.
I led a multidisciplinary project with Zurich employees and a technology startup, combining qualitative research with homeowners and quantitative market data to ground the opportunity space. The work focused on understanding real customer needs, validating them against business impact, and translating insights into a coherent service and product ecosystem rather than a standalone device.
The project resulted in an improved product concept with multiple service applications that addressed both customer needs and risk prevention. It strengthened Zurich’s position in proactive water damage prevention, informed a solid business case, and received an international innovation award in 2019.
Service design lead, research, service design and facilitation
CAF, a global manufacturer of trains and transport systems, was seeking to improve decision-making and operational efficiency in maintenance services. Maintenance processes were complex, data-heavy, and difficult to visualise, limiting the organisation’s ability to leverage emerging data capabilities for preventive and corrective services.
Using service design methodology, I led research and co-creation activities to make invisible maintenance processes tangible. Working with multidisciplinary teams, we mapped existing workflows, identified decision gaps, and explored how digital tools and real-time data could support maintenance workers in the field.
The work resulted in actionable service concepts and pilots, including digital tools for tablet-based use by maintenance teams. It enabled CAF to articulate a stronger service-led value proposition and laid the groundwork for ongoing implementation by internal design and development teams.
Service/Product design lead, service and product innovation
As part of Zurich Insurance’s “Make the Difference” programme, the organisation explored new ways to reduce high property loss ratios caused by undetected water leaks in private homes. While water damage represented a significant financial risk, customer awareness and preventive behaviour were low, and existing solutions focused mainly on post-damage claims handling.
I led a multidisciplinary project with Zurich employees and a technology startup, combining qualitative research with homeowners and quantitative market data to ground the opportunity space. The work focused on understanding real customer needs, validating them against business impact, and translating insights into a coherent service and product ecosystem rather than a standalone device.
The project resulted in an improved product concept with multiple service applications that addressed both customer needs and risk prevention. It strengthened Zurich’s position in proactive water damage prevention, informed a solid business case, and received an international innovation award in 2019.
Service design lead, service design and facilitation
Endesa was exploring how to develop new products and services aligned with the needs and values of younger customers, at a time when energy consumption was becoming both an economic and environmental concern. Traditional utility relationships offered little engagement or relevance for this audience.
I led research into millennial energy behaviours, motivations, and constraints, combining qualitative insights with co-creation sessions involving Endesa teams and users. The work focused on identifying meaningful touchpoints and reframing energy consumption as something visible, understandable, and actionable in everyday life.
The project produced a portfolio of prioritised service and product concepts and a detailed MVP for a digital application that helped users understand and reduce energy consumption. Savings were translated into tangible rewards through access to local, emission-free transport, aligning user benefit with broader sustainability goals.
Strategic design lead, digital service and product design
After the acquisition of TSB by Banco Sabadell, the bank aimed to accelerate digital adoption while preserving its strong, people-centred brand rooted in local branch relationships. The challenge was to shift customers towards digital services without undermining trust or the perception of personal support.
I led an end-to-end design engagement grounded in extensive user research, co-creation, and iterative testing. The work focused on understanding customer needs, digital capabilities, and moments where human support remained essential. Insights were translated into a scalable app concept designed to balance self-service efficiency with reassurance and clarity.
The project delivered a complete, production-ready app design and a roadmap for future service evolution. It supported TSB’s digital transition while maintaining brand credibility and provided Sabadell’s internal teams with a clear foundation for ongoing development and growth.
Strategic design lead, digital service and product design
Following the financial crisis, Piraeus Bank was under strong pressure to digitise services while closing physical branches. WinBank, its digital brand, needed to support customers with varying levels of digital literacy in a sensitive economic and cultural context, while rebuilding trust in everyday banking interactions.
I joined after an extensive research phase to lead design production and localisation. The work focused on translating insights into a coherent digital experience adapted to Greek language, culture, and technical constraints. I led visual and interaction design alongside local teams, working closely with a large development group through iterative design and handover cycles.
The project delivered a fully redesigned banking app and supporting service concepts within a short timeframe. The solution was well received by customers and received one of Greece’s leading design awards, supporting WinBank’s repositioning as a credible and accessible digital banking channel
Foundations of my current practice, delivered at Accenture and Fjord across corporate, public, and non-profit contexts. This work established capabilities in service design, research, and implementation while surfacing the systemic patterns—governance gaps, strategic misalignment, and organisational friction—that shape how I work today.
Design strategy and methodology to resolve problems of social coexistence. Founder and president. Fundament is a non-profit NGO founded by designers to solve social problems related to coexistence employing design strategy and methodology to make the world a better place.
Redesign of digital services for Spain in an international collaborative design project. (2017-2019). Generali Group is an Italian insurance company, third in the world. It has its headquarters in Trieste.
Omnichannel experience definition for the Spanish market. Makro is an international brand of warehouse clubs, also called cash and carries. Ownership of the worldwide chain of stores is split between two companies: Metro AG in Europe and SHV Holdings in Latin America.
Exploring big data usage for processes and unification. Vithas SA is a private Spanish company providing health services for more than 5 million patients in 20 hospitals and 20 health centres in Spain.
Definition of services and experience of FX (Foreign Currency Exchange) experience. Banco Santander, doing business as Santander Group and is a Spanish multinational bank based in Madrid and Santander. Additionally, Santander is the 16th-largest banking institution in the world.
APP fleet/cruise planning digital experience. Amadeus IT was created in 1987 as a strategic alliance (joint venture) between the airline’s Air France, Lufthansa, Iberia L.A.E. and Scandinavian Airlines System to create a worldwide provider of information and reservation services for the benefit of travellers and the general public.
Redesign the digital experience for Mobile and Desktop. The Barceló Group is one of the most important tourism companies in the world with more than 250 hotels and 700 travel agencies on 4 continents.
