Dimeji Onafuwa, Phd Email & Phone Number

Kirkland, Wa, Us

Redmond, Washington, Us

Part of the Experience 365 Research Leadership Team. Leading M365 & Copilot (Microsoft's AI offering) Lifecycle & Inclusive Research - a team of awesome researchers who are working hard to understand and solve problems for the folks using M365 products. Works with executive leadership (Directors, VPs and CVPs) to convert the voice of the customer to product success.Book of work includes ensuring that our research methods consider the multiple lived experiences represented by our customers around the world.

Athens, Wv, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

I engage in theories that explore technological innovation, including its benefits and challenges. I share my ideas and lead workshops on design-enabled recommoning, designers as allies, and pluriversal design. Topics may include: alternative economics, design-thinking, design for social innovation, diversity and inclusion in UX, commons & commoning, decoloniality, transition design, allyship, and algorithmic bias.

Pasadena, Ca, Us

Teaching Masters Level Interaction Design courses.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Research lead for a 2-tier Distribution Program that provides Google Cloud partners with one unified platform and the APIs that deliver a consistent and productive experience with selling Google Cloud.Founded and co-led Design and Allyship program at Google. D&A is a grassroots-oriented program that provided training and tools for equitable design and engineering. Co-created Design & Allyship toolkit and playbook. Work was adopted into 3 Grow courses at Google.Launched and landed customer cohort program, API measurement framework, team DEI goals, programs & initiatives for improving team culture.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Ca

Teaching graduate and undergraduate students on pluriversal approaches to design.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Smart Campus:Research project lead for productivity pillar - working across physical, digital and cultural environments and with Product, Engineering, Real Estate, Ethics, AI, and Technology teams. Leveraged data and insights to provide critical POVs to influence Microsoft's Digital Transformation efforts at the executive level.Research project lead for the delivery of the blueprint that informed north star experiences across all Microsoft buildings and sites.Microsoft Hackathon winner (3rd Place).Microsoft Edge:Research, insights and recommendations that led to the delivery of a transformative browsing experience for Windows users.Notifications:Research and insights on notifications as a global story at Microsoft.

Olympia, Washington, Us

Modern species is a sustainable branding & graphic design studio creating engaging visual identities and ecocentric print, packaging, and web solutions for natural & organic product companies. Located in Seattle, WA.

Design research and strategy consultant on topics relating to ux research, data commons, recommoning, alternative economics, design thinking, co-design, design strategy and transition design.U.S. and international clients from Fortune 500 companies to small, privately-held entities.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Research, analysis and synthesis to understand client behavior and increase their revenue for product category in light of new competition. Work consists of:• in-person interviews with customers across several U.S. regions, • contextual inquiry and ethnography research methodologies,• generative and evaluative research methods• Journey mapping • analysis and synthesis, • insights, mapping, clustering,• critical themes• new frames • ecosystem and findings maps• customer engagement models• adoption roadmap.

Hillsboro, Or, Us

Exploring, through design patterns, ways communities share and contextualize open data. Worked with INTEL Experiences Lab to create tools for understanding data commons.

Cranberry Township, Pa, Us

• Marketing communications• Buyer Personas & Content Marketing via Hubspot• Operations management• Growth strategy• Analytics

Cranberry Township, Pa, Us

• Brand strategy• Creative Direction• Internet & social media marketing strategy and implementation• Brand Plans• Lead Qualifications• Brand guidelines• New business segments and vertical markets.

Brand strategy, communication design, UI/UX, environmental design, digital, web development.National and international brands, companies (small and midsize), universities, not-for-profit agencies, and governmental organizations.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Adjunct Design Professor

Worked directly with the senior vice-president for marketing and other key members of marketing departments in the design and production of print collateral. Created direct mail pieces that helped solidify the growth of a local bank and its eventual acquisition by a large national competitor.Creative direction and design for collateral for a regional medical center foundationCreative design for print and web.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Design

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Management

Ba With Honors, Advertising & Graphic Design, Studio Art (Double Major)

High School