Panni Pais
Head of MA programme, assistant lecturer
Product Design BA
assistant lecturer
Design MA in English
Head of MA programme
Design MA in English
assistant lecturer
Service Design

After graduating as a product designer, she has been working as a Design Thinking and Service Design trainer, passing on this knowledge through teaching. At the MOME Doctoral School, she is in charge of developing a complex education methodology package for supporting the diploma project process.

Biography

She graduated in 2008 from the Department of Sociology at ELTE, and in 2012 from the MOME Product Design programme. She received the Hungarian Product Design Award for her diploma project, the LightMe lamp family. Since 2014, she has been a teacher, and since 2019, the head of the MOME Product Design programme. Since autumn 2020, she has been heading the Product Design MA programme, and since autumn 2023, the Design MA programme in English language.

During her university years, she participated in several international workshops, influencing her work as a designer which is based on Design Thinking and Service Design methodologies. The focus of her interests is the widespread dissemination of design and research methodologies. What she enjoys most about teaching is mentoring and providing professional support to students.

Since 2016, she has been one of the teachers and leaders of the MOME OPEN Design Thinking and Service Design Basic courses, and since 2019, a teacher and leader of the Co-Create Design Thinking Facilitator course. In 2017, she worked as a researcher and trainer in MOME’s Design Thinking in Public Education (EFOP 3.2.6.) project, and in 2021, as a researcher in MOME and DICO consortium’s Digital Career Stories project.

She is founder of Cellux Group, established in 2006, where she does product and service design jobs, and leads professional workshops, trainings, as well as design programmes for young people.

Professional works

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