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Kasia Grabowicz Design Research, Service Design, StrategyKG

Kasia Grabowicz

Design Research, Service Design, Strategy
  • Suggested rate
    €998 / day
  • Experience8-15 years
  • Response rate100%
  • Response time1 hour
The project will begin once you accept Kasia's quote.
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London, United Kingdom
Can work on-site at your office in
  • and around London (up to 50km)
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Kasia in a few words
I work with international companies on big scale innovation projects. I support them in
their development and help them leverage innovation to make their businesses more successful through user research.

I focus on understanding human behaviour, needs, motivations and mindsets to design services and experiences. I believe in a systemic change.

In business, I prioritise realism, open-mindness and integrity.
Experience
  • Arrival
    Head of UX Research
    January 2022 - Today (3 years and 5 months)
    London, UK
    Leading a practice for a user-centred, radically better experiences for everyone, across the E2E customer journey.
    - Led a team of 7 UX-Researchers at peak; later embedded into a cross functional team of 16 with Human Factors, Ergonomics and Product Design; responsible for E2E experience research, design and delivery
    - Established a multi-stakeholder platform for CX, Market Intelligence and UXR teams to improve the confidence of the customer, user and market evidence for opportunity assessments, vehicle needs, as well as feature desirability
    - Developed a global company-wide product design validation, signoff and post-launch data collection protocols and implemented its processes for product and service validation pre and post launch
    - Worked directly with C-suite management to assess the gap and define the strategic direction for the Arrival Vehicle Experiences
    - Drove collaboration between Program, Engineering, Test and Validation and Design teams to promote user-centred design practice at each stage of the product development process
    - Designed Voice of the Customer strategy including data gathering model, communication model, including UX and CX metrics
  • Arrival
    User Research Lead
    February 2020 - December 2021 (1 year and 10 months)
    London, UK
    Leading the experience design research of the Arrival Bus.
    - Built a company framework for end-to-end user experience for the Bus Program, optimised the hardware and software experience research strategies; respectively prioritised and led all the research activities related to the strategic business goals and experience vision for the vehicle
    - Worked directly with programme management, designers and engineers, developers on implementation of the solutions based on the user research and market evidence combined with customer feature desirability requirements; in both physical and digital as well as corporate internal products (10+ simultaneously led UX projects)
    - Developed an end-to-end experience validation program, that provided evidence for commercialisation readiness and customer acceptance
    - Defined all trial related UX metrics related to on and off vehicle experiences and designed a program for Vehicle Trial Feedback user & vehicle data collection in collaboration with program management and our customers; optimised for seamless data collection and analysis and design decisions confidence
    - Build a 1000+ external user and SME community to improve the efficiency of the research process, facilitates faster design iterations and increased visibility of Arrival human-centred design ethos
  • WeAreMesh
    Co-Founder
    May 2016 - Today (9 years and 1 month)
    London, UK
    In the context of rapid change, Mesh helps organisations keep ahead of the curve and connect with the new generation of customers. We help them define a forward-looking vision and put it into action through a combination of strategic foresight, customer insight, and, respectively innovative value propositions and business models.
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Education
  • Master of Science
    ESADE Business School
    2014
    MSc in Innovation and Entrepreneurship
  • Master of Arts
    SGH
    2013
    Master of Arts (M.A.), Management
  • Bachelor's degree, Business Administration and Management, General
    Université Laval
    2011
    Bachelor's degree, Business Administration and Management, General
Certifications
  • Beyond Systems Thinking: Designing Resilient Regenerative Systems
    ETH Zurich
    2023
    Innovation Systemic Thinking