Design Researcher

Hannah Le.Gassick

Hannah draws on her experience as an industrial designer comfortable with ambiguity and a laser focus for identifying creative insights to help navigate complex innovation challenges. She is dedicated to collaborative creativity, and brings a futures-orientated lens to help big brands create inclusive, commercially successful products.

As a design researcher, she brings a toolkit of co-creative methods, a strategic mindset and an ability to interpret signals of change and cultural trends. She has a passion for sustainable development and strives to make an impact both personally and professionally.

Most creative when…

Hannah enjoys getting outdoors—an ocean lover and qualified open water diver always ready for a challenge! She recently completed her first sprint triathlon. As adventurous as she is, she gets her best ideas when she is well rested and relaxed.

What Hannah recommends

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Creativity and Why We Should Sleep On It
Creativity and Why We Should Sleep On It

Within the scientific literature around dream creativity, it’s clear that sleep can help to generate new ideas and help with creative problem solving—but how significant is this? How important is sleep overall when thinking about how creative we are as individuals?

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Zen and the Art of Creativity
Zen and the Art of Creativity

Ever-curious about the Science of Creativity and how we can apply it to our day-to-day creative practices, we’ve been exploring the links between creativity and health. In this article we’ll be exploring the topic of mindfulness and creativity—and how bringing mindfulness to your innovation practice could be deliberately harnessed as a tool to boost the creative power of teams.

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Exercise and Creativity
Exercise and Creativity

At INDUSTRY of Us, we’ve been exploring the topic of ‘Creative Health’ and more specifically, what impact does your health (in its broadest sense) have on your ability to be creative? This article looks at the role physical exercise plays in enhancing creativity and whether it could be deliberately harnessed as a tool to boost the creative power of teams.

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