Strategy

I apply design thinking to complex business problems — primarily in food, beverage, and retail. The work is participatory, research-driven, and always oriented toward decisions that can actually be made.

What is strategic design?

Strategic design adapts the methods of design — research, prototyping, visualization — to problems that aren't about form. Instead of shaping how something looks, you're shaping a company's direction, a service's logic, or a market's segmentation.

The label gets used loosely. Here, it means a specific set of activities I lead or contribute to, usually at the front end of a larger engagement: understanding users, framing the right problem, generating options, and making the implications visible before anyone commits.

Qualitative Research

Interviews, diary studies, field observations. The kind of understanding you can't get from analytics alone — what people do, what they say, and the gap between the two.

Workshop Moderation

Structured sessions that move a room from opinions to decisions. Brainstorming with constraints, co-design with end users, alignment across departments.

Visualization

Making abstract findings tangible — personas, journey maps, scenario illustrations, data charts. The faster a stakeholder can see an insight, the faster they can act on it.

Forecasting

Trend analysis, scenario building, design fiction. Tools for thinking about the medium and long term without pretending to predict it.

In Practice

These case studies focus on specific activities from larger engagements. Happy to walk through the full picture.