Designing for agreeable futures.
I use research lead design to catalyze change & introduce fiction & imagination where it is most needed. Primarily interested in shaking up status quo, augmenting diverse voices, and visualizing future scenarios.
I also sometimes work in the present.
Startup | Client Antwork | 2019
Re-imagining how we interact with Co-working Spaces
We redesigned the value proposition by breaking the traditional “plans” and integrating autonomy & ownership in this shared co-working space.
Business | Client Recycle Beirut | 2018
Presenting to the EU Parliament Green Party a circular economy Innovation strategy
We researched & designed a future service & step by step strategy to kickstart the circular economy, combat refugee crisis & decrease the environmental decline.
Ed-Tech | Client Hello Ruby | 2015
Connecting children globally through technology play activities.
We designed a communication strategy through diary studies, games and personas, to engage children on social media.
Non Profit | Client Unicef | 2018
Setting up youth for entrepreneurship success for Unicef Lebanon
We redesigned the youth entrepreneurship curriculum for Unicef Lebanon with service design studio Continuum.
Experimental | Personal
Designing a mockup for a time travel app
Because why not.
Research Methodology | Trust Timeline | 2013
Mixed Research Methods: Visualizing feelings in the research process.
We created an interview tool for asking focused, personal questions about trust towards higher institutions.
Earlier projects
Service Design | Client GSMA | 2014
Helping farmers in rural areas receive timely crop information through their GSM operated mobile phone.
I supported in the creation of The mAgri Toolkit while working at Frog Design to give timely information to farmers in rural areas in 6 countries.
Design Strategy | Client Hivos Arc Programme | 2019
Designing a workshop model leading up to a service pilot for artisans to keep making a living with craft.
We designed a training curriculum, a profitable service, and sustainable strategy to save craftworker’s livelihoods in their communities.
Design Thinking | Client Paradis D’enfant | 2012
Designing a new app for Design Week.
The app is based around how people walk in the city and where they interact in the daily program.
Experiments / Exhibitions / Futures Research
Design Futures + Strategic Foresight
Co-creating different scenarios, products, and realities in the near future with foresight & speculative design methods.
Workshop | Speculative Needs | 2016-2018
Conducting futures-scenario building workshops for designers with provotypes.
Engaging designers in envisioning near-future scenarios through speculative design methods.
Product / Interaction Design | Presence Timer | 2015
A timer that adresses the attention economy.
We designed this socially connected timer as research into calm technology & reflection in a hyper connected world.
Exhibition | The World Vote | 2018
A participatory voting exhibition to engage people in possible near-futures.
We used trend research and foresight to design an auditory exhibition to make people reflect on how technology might affect their life in the next couple of years.