Dan Silveira, MDes
Senior UX Design Consultant @ IBM
I am a product leader, adjunct professor, and writer with a passion for creating valuable, human-centered experiences that align user needs with business objectives. With a Master of Design in Strategic Foresight and Innovation, I bring a unique blend of design thinking and foresight methodologies to product development, helping businesses stay ahead of emerging trends.
Recent Work
Discover how I've shaped digital experiences for enterprise clients across financial services, airlines, government, delivery services, and technology, leading strategic design, research, and execution.
Writing
The Design-Knowledge Framework
Topics: AI, Research, Design Strategy
An investigation of the limits of AI generation in Design and the effects of prompt priming. This article explores the different thinking processes of AI and Design, and how, by using a design-knowledge framework, we can guide AI into creating more human-centred designs.
The Fog of Now
Topics: Agile, Strategic Foresight
Explore how organizations become so fixated on present-day customer needs and agile sprint cycles that they lose sight of emerging futures. This article argues for layering strategic foresight methodologies onto agile practices, enabling teams to develop future-oriented visions guided by emerging trends rather than optimizing solely for the present.
We're Surrounded by Signals, Now What?
Topics: Strategic Foresight, Design, AI
While we're all natural signal-gatherers, organizations fail to harness this collective intelligence because knowledge remains siloed within subject matter experts. This article provides a practical framework for documenting and organizing signals into a Central Signal Repository, enabling teams to spot emerging trends before they fully materialize.