(The Written Version).
Designer's Taste: the thing AI can't generate for you.
Strategist's Rigour: the ability to ask questions then listen.
Builder's Experience to Ship: from luxury leather goods to AI automations.
Most people pick one of those. Hannah works the seams between them.
she was on the founding team of an AI startup, building agentic tools for pharmacy operations - and stayed through to acquisition.
Before that, design consulting and helping build an award-winning design studio with clients like Google and the City of Boston.
Before that, an MIT masters in design, engineering + business.
Before that, shaping trends and collections for a German luxury house.
And before all that, growing up in New Zealand, where "give it a crack" is basically a personality type.
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Also, a visiting lecturer on taste and the Gestalt Principles at Tufts University. Building community at IDSA Boston, a chapter of the largest US industrial design association. And, in actual free time - birdwatching.
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For more personal or work stories, ping me: hannah.oh.nz@gmail.com
(The Bullet Version).
EXPERIENCE.
Founding Design Strategist, Pharmesol, 2025-2026
Visiting Lecturer, The Design of Good Taste, Tufts University, 2026
Senior Design Strategist (prev. Design Strategist), Other Tomorrows, 2021-2025
Design Researcher & Planner (prev. Leather Goods Designer), MCM 2017-2020
LEADERSHIP.
Sponsorship Chair, IDSA Boston — 2024-2025
EDUCATION.
M.S., Engineering & Management — MIT, 2022
B.S., Integrated Design / B.I.S., Digital Arts — Yonsei University, 2017
TALKS & WORKSHOPS.
Guest Industry Panelist for RMIT's Fashion Enterprise course: In-Person, Apr 2026
[Let's Talk About Design Strategy.], Guest Seminar Speaker for Tufts University, Prof. Dave Miller’s MS in Human Factors Program: In-Person, Apr 2025
[Service Design in an Uncertain World], Co-Speaker and Workshop Facilitator, Harvard GSD xDesign Conference: In-Person, Apr 2025
[Creative Tensions], Co-keynote Speaker for Wentworth Institute of Technology, 3rd Frauhaus Annual Design Intersection: In-Person, Nov 2024
[A Time Traveller's Guide to Envisioning], Co-Speaker and Workshop Facilitator for MIT Sloan Design Club x IDSA Boston, Design Workshop: In-Person, Nov 2024
[The Impact of AI and Design], AI Demo Presenter, IDSA Boston x IDEO: In-Person, Oct 2024
[~NO PRESSURE~], Co-Speaker for Northeastern University, Prof. Sheila Pontis’ MFA Experience Design and Information Design Class: In-Person, Sept 2024
[Insights from my journey as an emerging designer: How the @#$%&! I got here & where I might be going?], Alumni Talk for Yonsei University, Integrated Design Program: Virtual, Apr 2024
[How the **** we got here & where we might be going], Co-Speaker for Northeastern University, SCOUT Design Club: In-Person, Apr 2024
["CUSTOMER DISCOVERY"], Guest Speaker for Entrepreneur Futures Network (EFN), Academy for Women Entrepreneurs: South Korea: Virtual, Mar 2024
PUBLICATIONS.
Oh, Hannah (Hye Yeon), and Sheila Pontis. 2023. “Understanding Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury’s Self-Care Practices: A Technology Probe Study to Promote Pressure Relief Adherence.” Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology 19 (7): 2565–79. Link