Builders Experience to Ship: from luxury leather goods to AI automation.

Strategists Rigour: the ability to ask questions, then listen.

Designers Taste: the thing AI cant generate for you.

Most people pick one of those.
Hannah works the seams between them.

Me on a regular day.

Me on a regular day.

Me if we work together.

Me if we work together.

Hannah was on the founding team of an AI startup, building agentic tools for pharmacy operations, through to acquisition. 

// Before that, design consulting and helping build an award-winning design studio in Boston with clients like Google and Southwest Airlines.

// Before that, an M.S. in Integrated Design & Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she took classes at both the School of Engineering and MIT Sloan School of Management.

// Before that, shaping trends and collections for a German luxury house where Billie Eilish wore one of her bags in a campaign.

// And before all that, growing up in New Zealand, where “just give it a crack” is basically a personality type.

Also, a visiting lecturer on taste and the Gestalt Principles at Tufts University. Former Sponsorship Chair building community at IDSA Boston, a chapter of the largest US industrial design association.

And, in actual free time: birdwatching.

Experience

Founding Design Strategist

2025-2026

Visiting Lecturer,
The Design of Good Taste

2026

Senior Design Strategist
(prev. Design Strategist)

2021-2025

Design Researcher & Planner
(prev. Leather Goods Designer)

2017-2020

Leadership

Education

M.S., Engineering & Management

2020-2022

B.S., Integrated Design
B.I.S., Digital Arts

2013-2017

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Talks & Workshops

RMIT, Fashion Enterprise course, Guest Industry Panelist

Apr 2026

Harvard GSD, xDesign Conference, [Service Design in an Uncertain World], Co-Speaker & Workshop Facilitator

Apr 2025

Tufts University, Prof. Dave Miller’s Human Factors course, [Let’s Talk About Design Strategy.] Guest Seminar Speaker

Apr 2025

MIT Sloan Design Club × IDSA Boston, [A Time Traveller’s Guide to Envisioning], Co-Speaker & Workshop Facilitator

Nov 2024

Wentworth Institute of Technology, Frauhaus Annual Design Intersection, [Creative Tensions], Co-keynote Speaker

Nov 2024

IDSA Boston × IDEO, [The Impact of AI and Design], AI Demo Presenter

Oct 2024

Northeastern University, Prof. Sheila Pontis’ MFA Experience & Information Design class, [~No Pressure~], Co-Speaker

Sep 2024

Yonsei University, Integrated Design Program Alumni Talk, [Insights from my journey as an emerging designer]

Apr 2024

Northeastern University, SCOUT Design Club, [How the **** we got here & where we might be going], Co-Speaker

Apr 2024

Entrepreneur Futures Network, Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (South Korea), [Customer Discovery], Guest Speaker

Mar 2024

PRESS

Instructor Spotlight

Mar 2026

Meet Hannah Oh

JUN 2025

“God is in the details.”

“God is in the details.”