Service Design · Product Strategy · Venture Validation · Go‑to‑Market

I bring together creative thinking, business strategy, and practical execution.

Worked with

Organisations I've worked with across service design, product, and venture work.

Planet Smart City

Designing smart-living services and digital experiences for residential communities in Italy and Brazil.

Lifeed

Improving employee-development journeys through research, service design and digital product design.

SUGAR Network

Collaborating within a global network connecting universities, organisations and industry partners through design innovation.

Triwool

Designing a digital traceability platform for a more transparent and responsible wool supply chain.

CANactions

Creating learning and community experiences around urban transformation and city-making.

BIGGGG IDEA

Designing digital platforms and programmes for civic participation and social innovation.

CESIE

Developing services and experiences for European education and social-impact initiatives.

North Estonia Medical Centre

Improving the experience of patients and medical staff through service design.

Work

Ideas tested in practice

Designing a connected service across international markets
01

Designing a connected service across international markets

Planet Smart City

Service DesignProduct StrategyResearch
Rethinking water management for Indian condominiums
02

Rethinking water management for Indian condominiums

Planet Smart City

Product StrategyIoT-Enabled ServicesDesign Research
Smart Community
03

Smart Community

Planet Smart City

Service DesignCommunity managementDesign Research
An AI guide for everyday bureaucracy
04Coming soon

An AI guide for everyday bureaucracy

Planet Idea (Djungle Studio)

Conversational AIService DesignUX/UI

How I work

From complexity to a clear direction

01

Understand the real problem

I combine qualitative research, market evidence, behavioural insight, and operational context to uncover what matters before teams commit to a solution.

02

Define a strategic direction

I turn fragmented information, competing priorities, and early assumptions into clearer propositions, principles, and roadmaps.

03

Validate opportunities

I help teams test customer demand, problem–solution fit, market potential, and business assumptions before investing heavily in development.

04

Move toward implementation

I translate research and strategy into concepts, experiments, service models, pilots, and go-to-market actions.

How I can help

Bringing structure to complexity, fuelled by evidence.

Service Design

I map how digital products, physical touchpoints, and operational teams actually work together — then design the connective tissue between them.

Product Strategy

I turn fragmented priorities and competing stakeholder views into a clear roadmap the whole team can act on.

Venture Design

I help founders and innovation teams test assumptions with real customers before they invest in building.

Talks

Speaking at conferences

I explore how emerging technologies, new business models, and changing organisational systems are reshaping products, services, and the role of designers.

Iuliia Vorobiova presenting on stage at WeMakeFuture
Generative UI and the Evolving Role of Designers WeMakeFuture, Bologna — 2025
Iuliia Vorobiova with the World Information Architecture Day Milan community
How Can We Reinvent Traditional Innovation World Information Architecture Day, Milan — 2025

Working on a product, service, or venture that needs clearer direction?

I am open to senior opportunities in product, service, and strategic design, as well as selected collaborations with startups and innovation teams.

iuliia.vorobiova@gmail.com