Laura Varisco

Digital & Interaction Design Lead

Interaction and Experience designer with 10+ years of design and lead experience. Creative and proficient in the creation of digital solutions and services. Passionate and skilled in the use of data and digital emerging technologies, and their possible applications within the design process and in new design solutions.

I aim at understanding how new technologies impact on the design process and what are their social and ethical consequences. I want to promote critical discussions and improve design choices during the creative process. PhD in Design, I’m currently Design Lead & Future Experience designer and lecturer teaching the relationships between digital technologies and society.

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Working Experience

From 2021

Design Lead & Future experience designer

Samsung Electronics Italia – Milan (Italy)

 

From 2020

Adjunct professor, guest lecturer & Workshops/Hackathon mentor

Domus Academy – Milan (Italy)
Politecnico di Milano – Milan (Italy)
MIT Design Lab – Cambridge, MA (USA)
Samsung Design Innovation Center – San Francisco, CA (USA)
Huawei Aesthetic Center – Milan (Italy)
World Usability Day – Turin (Italy)
Polifactory, Politecnico di Milano – Milan (Italy)
Innovation by Design – Milan (Italy)

 

2019 – 2021

UX/UI Design Lead

Arkius PBC – Saratoga, CA (USA)

 

2014-2021

Interaction and Experience Designer and researcher

MIT Design Lab – Cambridge, MA (USA)
Samsung Design Innovation Center – San Francisco, CA (USA)
TIM – Milan (Italy)
Innovation by Design – Milan (Italy)
SR LABS – Milan (Italy)

 

Education

2019

Ph.D cum Laude in Design

Politecnico di Milano – Milan (Italy)
Dissertation title: “Personal Interaction Design: Introducing in the Design Process the Discussion on the Consequences of the Use of Personal Information.”

 

2013

MsC in Communication Design

Politecnico di Milano – Milan (Italy)

 

2010

BsC in Communication Design

Politecnico di Milano – Milan (Italy)

Publications

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Varisco, L. (2020). Personal Interaction Design: Introducing the discussion on the consequences of the use of personal information in the design process. In Mariani I., Rampino, L. Design research in the digital era: opportunities and implications. Notes on doctoral research 2020. Franco Angeli Milano (Italy) ISBN: 9788835100317

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Varisco, L., Pillan, M., & Marti, P. (2019). Defining a Data Impact Tool for Design Courses. Proceedings of the Conference on Design and Semantics of Form and Movement – Beyond Intelligence, DeSForM 2019. Cambridge, MA, USA

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Varisco, L., Mariani, I., Parisi, S., Stepanovic, M., Invernizzi, M., & Bolzan, P. (2019). InData Envisioning & Prototyping Informed by Data. A data scraping and visualization tool to support design scenarios. IHIET 2019, Nice, France.

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Varisco, L. (2019). Personal Interaction Design: Introducing the discussion on the consequences of the use of personal information in the design process (PhD Dissertation). Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy.

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Mariani, I., Parisi, S., Bolzan, P., Stepanovic, M., Invernizzi, M., & Varisco, L. (2019). InData, Envisioning & Prototyping Informed by Knowledge. Open-access Data Platform to Support Design Scenarios. EDULEARN 2019, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

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Varisco, L., Colombo, S., & Casalegno, F. (2019). Designing with Data. Anticipating the Impact of Personal Data Usage on Individuals and Society. In W. Karwowski & T. Ahram (Eds.), Intelligent Human Systems Integration 2019 (Vol. 903, pp. 870–876).

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Varisco, L., Pavlovic, M., & Pillan, M. (2019). Anticipating Ethical Elements When Designing AI Agents That Employ Personal Data. In: Design, User Experience, and Usability. Design Philosophy and Theory.

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Varisco, L., Pillan, M., & Bertolo, M. (2017). Personal digital trails: toward a convenient design of products and services employing digital data. 4D Design Development Developing Design Conference Proceedings.

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Pillan, M., Varisco, L., & Bertolo, M. (2017). Facing Digital Dystopias: A Discussion about Responsibility in the Design of Smart Products. In M. B. Alonso & E. Ozcan (Eds.), Proceedings of the Conference on Design and Semantics of Form and Movement – Sense and Sensitivity, DeSForM 2017.

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