Senior Design Manager at Nokia
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Senior Design Manager at Nokia
- Past
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- Design Specialist at Nokia Design
- Business development for a non-profit at GWA/Misericordia
- Senior interaction designer at Nokia Research Center / Concept Design Group, User Experience
- Interactive Designer (Self-employed)
- Education
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- Taideteollinen korkeakoulu - Konstindustriella högskolan
- Birmingham Institute of Art & Design
- Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Appliqués et des Métiers d'Arts - E.N.S.A.A.M.A
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Raphael Grignani’s Summary
Raphael Grignani established the Nokia Design studio in San Francisco in 2008 where he leads a multidisciplinary design team. Nokia Design SF works across the Nokia organization to clarify and translate business opportunities through design.
Raphael’s experience at Nokia ranges from product and service design to exploratory human behavioral field research. He also worked on long-term design concepts such as Homegrown, a project that looked at how environmental and social issues may change mobile design in the coming years. Before joining Nokia in Helsinki in 2002, Raphael provided digital design leadership through concepting and co-development for clients that included Razorfish, Adcore, Benefon, WMG, and Asema
Raphael earned a Master of Arts from the University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland in Product and Strategic Design. He is an active participant in the design community, often involved in design thinking and projects in the field of mobile digital design. Raphael frequently speaks on the role of design in environmental and social issues; most recently at Lift Korea, UPA international conference, AIGA Design Conference, and Kyoorius DesignYatra. He currently lives and works from San Francisco.
Raphael Grignani’s Specialties:
mobile, interaction design, interface design, user-centred design, concept design, design strategy, product design.
Raphael Grignani’s Experience
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Senior Design Manager
Nokia
(Public Company; NOK; Telecommunications industry)
January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)
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Design Specialist
Nokia Design
(Public Company; NOK; Telecommunications industry)
January 2005 — January 2008 (3 years 1 month)
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Business development for a non-profit
GWA/Misericordia
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
February 2004 — September 2005 (1 year 8 months)
Launched and distributed in Finland Misericordia - a fair-trade and ethical clothing company from Lima, Peru (www.misionmisericordia.com).
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Senior interaction designer
Nokia Research Center / Concept Design Group, User Experience
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NOK; Design industry)
February 2002 — December 2004 (2 years 11 months)
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Interactive Designer
Self-employed
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Design industry)
January 1999 — February 2002 (3 years 2 months)
Provided digital design leadership through concepting and co-development for clients like Nokia (FI), Adcore (FI), Benefon (FI), WMG (USA), Asema (FR), W-Ren (FI).
Raphael Grignani’s Education
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Taideteollinen korkeakoulu - Konstindustriella högskolan
Master of Arts , Product and Strategic Design , 2000 — 2003
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Birmingham Institute of Art & Design
B.A First Class Honour , 3 Dimensional Design , 1999 — 2000
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Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Appliqués et des Métiers d'Arts - E.N.S.A.A.M.A
BTS , Esthétique Industrielle , 1996 — 1999
