Greg Wolos
Senior Design Lead
IDEO
Greg Wolos is a senior design lead at IDEO, where he’s worked in nearly every major industry. Over a career designing everything from 747’s, to mattresses, to wearables, to medical devices, to consumer electronics, he always put humans at the center. At IDEO, Wolos is an industrial designer and mechanical engineer. He believes that both collaboration and expertise across multiple disciplines is key to helping clients launch holistic designs. A strong believer in teams, he also finds great joy in designing alone on a Sunday morning.
The Layered Diamond: A Design Process for the Multi-disciplined
Holistic design requires expertise across a range of disciplines. Often, the best work is created when designers from multiple disciplines respect and influence each other. At IDEO, Greg Wolos uses the human-centered design process to launch holistic designs with a range of disciplines including engineering, industrial design, interaction design, graphic design, architecture, design research and branding.
Developing expertise in multiple disciplines and working in isolation can yield complete control and an aligned vision, but this may come with increased constraints. Wolos describes the pros and cons, and contrasts how his workflow changes for team and individual design scenarios.
