I was born and raised in Thessaloniki, Greece and my journey to design began with a rigorous technical foundation. I studied Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, with a focus on Machine Learning and Multimedia Processing and worked briefly in research. My first job was on early AI research and it made it clear for me that my professional path shall allow for creativity and aesthetics and not just logic. While my early work in AI research convinced me that my path needed to embrace creativity and aesthetics, that engineering deep dive was far from a detour. It gifted me a systems-oriented mindset and additionally fluency and thrill in complex systems.

I then moved to the Netherlands to earn a Professional Doctorate in User System Interaction from Eindhoven University of Technology. During a traineeship at Philips, I contributed to the development of a compact surround sound system, a pivotal experience where I first began merging my engineering background with user research.

After the Netherlands, I moved to Vienna to work as User Researcher at the Center for Usability Research and Engineering (now USECON). There, I co-developed assistive applications for older adults, published field research, and built a reusable user research toolbox for our internal teams. In 2014, I moved to the Austrian Institute of Technology, where I took on broader responsibilities in the field of Active Assisted Living (AAL) user research and project management.

It was during international consortium meetings that I began visually prototyping product ideas to align multidisciplinary teams. This practice of "making the abstract visible" marked my shift towards UX Design and eventually inspired the name of my company, Visual Prototyping. While I was becoming a visual designer myself, I started teaching Information Design to others. I have led Workshops for various departments at the University of Vienna, but also to product people and other professionals. I still enjoy giving lectures to explore niche topics such as Bauhaus, Absurdism, Illustration and UX, etc.

Since launching my product design career in 2019, I have worked across the full product lifecycle—from requirements gathering and user research to UI, Design Systems, DesignOps, and Service Design. As a freelancer, I am often performing short but critical interventions to the companies I work for. This gives me a pragmatic approach and a balance of high-fidelity execution and high-level strategy. I love working with start-up and scale-up teams that need product direction and a systematic approach to design.

Thanks for reading so far! Currently based in Vienna but willing to travel, I'm available and glad to chat design and product anytime.