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Jessica is a designer, artist and researcher with experience working for both public and private sector organisations to explore the future implications of their field. She is eager to explore ways of using design to understand, unravel and provoke the rich interactions between people, technology, products and services.

Since graduating from Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art,  Jessica has been involved in various design research initiatives and creates her own speculative design projects, often collaborating with scientists and other designers, thinkers or futurists. Projects range from investigating the future implications of personal genomics to depicting the future of obesity in the UK for Foresight GOS and designing service experiences for online virtual worlds. Jessica currently works as a service designer at Engine in London.

Previous design & futures work experience includes Future of Persuasion project for the Institute for the Future, the 'Tackling Obesities' project for GOS FORESIGHT, Appleyards Uncertainty Managment Unit, FutureLab, Institute for Advanced Studies and the Royal College of Art.

Previous design research and ethnography client projects include Nokia, Vodafone, T-Mobile, The Economist, Habbo Hotel, Recycke Now for SeymourPowellForesight, Sense Worldwide and Engine.

Previous design tutoring and workshops experiences include Tribal Futures Vodafone project for the MA Design Interactions students, The Cloud and The Protagonist project for BA Product Design students at Glasgow School of Art and Superfictions & Self-Fulfilling Prophecies one day lecture/tutoring with BA FIne Art Lancaster University students.

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KEY SKILLS

Programming and Web Development
HTML/XHTML

Video, Graphics and Print
Final Cut Pro, Premiere, After Effects, Rhino, 3DStudio Max, Adobe Suite, Flash basic

Modelmaking, physical prototyping

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