Luca Toscano Email & Phone Number

Billund Municipality, Region Of Southern Denmark, Denmark

Crafting the next generation of LEGO Education learning experiences.

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Worked on the next SharePoint Premium product offering.

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

• Envisioned the future mobile & desktop experience of Microsoft Teams for frontline workers.
• Designed a set of targeting capabilities to deliver communication across Teams and Viva Connections.
• Led multiple design initiatives that collectively led to a 30% YoY growth of the Tags usage in Teams, from 4.2M MAU in August 2023 to 5.5M MAU in August 2024.
• Designed an improved discoverability experience for Tags in Teams that led to an increase of Tags awareness by 10%, and tags created by 2%, with 5K+ new tags created in 2 months.
• Designed a dashboard that helps 600+ Microsoft Ireland employees/year remotely monitor their 3D printing jobs in the office makerspace.
• Mentored junior designers and startup founders via the Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub.

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

• Spearheaded the initial design of Adaptive Toppers, an accessibility solution for gamers with disabilities, which was launched as part of the Xbox Design Lab experience at Gamescom 2024.
• Contributed to the release of Collaboration Manager, a digital lending solution in Teams for FSI.
• Designed the setup experience of Collaboration Controls which enabled SIs and ProDevs in 100+ orgs to install 2K+ collaboration apps across 600+ Power Apps environments.
• Contributed to the design of the Workflows app in Teams, with an average of 6K+ MAU, ~30K monthly installs and a 4.1/5 rating on the Microsoft Teams app store.
• Co-created an inclusive research framework that was consulted ~25K times, by 1.7K+ people across multiple orgs and enabled to the creation of ~100 shared personas templates.
• Filed 2 utility patents through the Microsoft Patent program.

Carnago, Lombardia, Italia

• Worked for 15+ international brands including Lavazza, WMF, Haier, Alessi, Delta Airlines, Omron.
• Worked on 2 projects that were awarded 3 design awards, including the IF Design Award.
• Led the UX development of a 150 m2 showroom in a multidisciplinary 10+ people team.
• Improved the UX of 5 machine interfaces, 2 web/mobile apps and 2 IoT products.
• Organized offsite workshops and managed clients independently.
• Contributed to upgrading the internal design team's work flows, tools and methodologies.

Milan

• Co-designed the Andamane office acoustic system for Slalom Italia.
• Filed an invention patent for Wiino, a smart wine thermostat.
• Took care of design and fundraising activities for Forture, a newborn startup.

Milan Area, Italy

• Worked with an Onlus on an assistive tool for kids with disabilities which was funded on Kickstarter.
• Conducted a 4+ months field research on e-textiles for Framis Italia.
• Co-designed an application for APMARR to answer the needs of patients suffering from arthritis.
• Designed and tested several prototypes through digital fabrication and rapid prototyping techniques.

Milan Area, Italy

• Worked on projects for important Italian brands including Coop, Barilla, Alessi and Ferrero.
• Worked on the Coop_70 exhibition for Coop Italia at Milan Triennale, which had 15k+ visitors.
• Conducted product shootings for the studio's website and external publications.

Milan Area, Italy

• Curated several publications and event reviews for the 2018 Milano Design Week official guide.
• Helped 500k ca. visitors to learn more about 1400+ events during the design week.

Milan, Lombardy, Italy

• Wrote 20+ articles about innovation, design and technology news.
• Published 10+ product reviews.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Industrial And Product Design, 110 With Honors

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