With a distributed team,
we approach each project with artisanal care.
Studio Wé was founded in 2014 to make participatory design the new normal in designing products and services.
Our two permanent teams are based in NYC and Montréal, with a wide network of collaborators in North America and Europe.
PEOPLE
Antonio Cesare Iadarola, PhD
Founder, Design Director
New York
Antonio Starnino
Founder, Design Director
Montreal / New York
Marta Alves
Service Designer
Milan
Violet Edwards
Research Lead
Toronto
Jennifer Wieskopf
Senior User Researcher
Toronto
Simon Vihn
Service Designer
Montreal
Bruno Larivière
Researcher
Montreal
PAST COLLABORATORS
CRISTINA COLOSI
+ -Cristina is a junior service designer, with background in research, science, system modeling and visual thinking. She is leading the business design of a new workplace accelerator offering.
LINN VIZARD
+ -Linn is a senior service designer based in Toronto, who has worked with clients such as the City of Toronto, WSIB, TELUS, Instacart, Shopify, The Immigration Consultants of Canada Regulatory Council , and The Canadian Forces College to deliver consulting projects and service design training. With Studio Wé she helped lead a project looking at the redesign of legal government services for the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General
VINCENZO LANZIELLO
+ -Vincenzo is a graphic designer based in Milan, working in the field since 2008 for a wide array of agencies and individual clients. He forges ideas, shapes, and typography through the means of visual communications, taking care of the design process end-to-end, with methodology, dedication, and meaning. He curated the new visual identity and communication tools of the studio.
SIMON GOUGH
+ -Simon Gough is a service design and educator based in the UK and Spain. He was our person on the field for a project of process redesign of a digital transformation agency in London.
JANSON CHENG
+ -Janson is a social entrepreneur and transdisciplinary designer based in Beijing and Shanghai. He collaborated with us as a local trainer of a Design Thinking Facilitation program for a global consumer goods company.
SANA BANERJEE
+ -Sana is a strategist and researcher based in Montreal. She supported us in user research for the public sector and our internal research on the Future of Work.
VINCENZO DI MARIA
+ -Vincenzo is a service designer and educator based in Italy, with him, we started our first co-design projects working with local communities to design educational experiences of a Slow Food garden in South of Italy, and user experiences for commercial spaces.
SUSANA ANTONIO
+ -Susana is a social entrepreneur based in Lisbon, Portugal. She was involved in our work with Slow Food educators, to support co-creation with university students and school managers.
VARDA LAZARD
+ -Varda is a UX writer based in California, she supported us in shaping our language and creating the voice we are using to communicate our content to a broad audience.
JESS MALZ
+ -Jess Malz is a transformation consultant, facilitator, learning designer, and certified coach. Working together we led the design of a team building process for a startup incubator in Montreal.
ALESSANDRA BOSI
+ -Alessandra is a branding designer and illustrator based in London, she has supported us with the development of visuals and illustrations for user research and future scenarios for our client projects.
CLIENTS
co-designing work environments
New York City
2 N 6th Place Brooklyn, NY 11249
Montréal
8832 Rue Meunier Quebec, Canada, H2N1V9
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