Staff

Senior Staff

Enrico Bergese – Senior Designer

Enrico Bergese is a product designer with a background in musical instrument design. Within the Experientia team he specializes in product design and concept development.

Enrico obtained a Masters Degree in Product Design at the Royal College of Art in London. He also is a professor at the Faculty of Design of the Polytechnic University of Turin where he also obtained a degree in Architecture.

Prior to joining Experientia, Enrico lived in Japan for several years where he was an active team member of the Product Design Laboratory at Yamaha Corporation.

Laura Polazzi – User Experience Designer

Laura Polazzi is a user experience designer. Her professional competences include ethnographic studies, user testing, concept design, information architecture and trend research.

She studied communication and human-computer interaction at the University of Siena (Italy) and ergonomics at the University of Liège (Belgium).

She has been a researcher at the University of Liège (Belgium), and at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea (Italy); she taught ergonomics and interaction design at Politecnico of Milan.

As a consultant she has collaborated with companies including Ideo, Nokia, Motorola, Grey Interactive, Oyster partners, Ogilvy and Added Value.

Yaniv Steiner – Director of Research & Development

Yaniv Steiner is a game developer, human-computer interaction designer, information architect, programmer and consultant with a long history of digital hardware and software development. Yaniv was a professor at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, a visiting professor at the IUAV University in Venice, Italy, and founded and developed the companies Prototype, Adamo Games and theplaystation.org.

Previously he helped developing the knowledge community Users Tree of Knowledge; was head of the R&D team at VConf, an internet and network solutions company; and worked as senior technical consultant and head of viral marketing at Zapa Digital Arts. He also worked for Bashan Systems, the Israeli Antitrust Authority and Brother, Israel.

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