Selected Works

• Messenger
  Building a universal way for people to connect and be closer together.
  Monetization, AI, Sharing
  » Sign in.

• Pinterest
  Helping you discover and do what you love.
  Growth, Monetization
  » Sign up today.

• Jauntful
  Helping people and businesses share their favorite local recommendations.
  CEO, Product Development, Partnerships, Branding
  » Visit Jauntful.

• Global Lives Project
  Creating a holistic identity able to live and grow in an interactive space. Method, 2012.
  Branding, Web, WordPress
  » Visit Global Lives.

• Google Cultural Institute
  Devising new ways to explore exhibits and collections from museums and archives all around the world. Method, 2012.
  Concepting, Web
  » Visit Google Cultural Institute.

• Heath Ceramics
  Empowering an artisan brand with a robust e-commerce experience. Method, 2011.
  Branding, Web, Magento
  » Visit Heath Ceramics.

• Nokia Homegrown
  Working towards the most sustainable, ethical and desirable communication solutions for Nokia by placing sustainability first. Nokia, 2008.
  Concepting, Strategy, Prototyping, Mobile, Hardware

Talks

• Designing with Velocity at Scale
  Mar 2, 2016 talk at Interaction16 in Helsinki, Finland.

• The Designer as Founder and CEO
  Feb 9, 2015 talk at Interaction15 in San Francisco, USA.

• Design Led Startups
  Nov 6, 2013 talk at The Family in Paris, France.

• Design x Startups
  Jun 20, 2013 Talk at CEDIM Innovation Series in Mexico City, Mexico.

• Social Media / Social Change.
  Mar 25-26, 2011 talk and thinkshop at AIGA Y16:Spark Conference in San Diego, USA.

• Beyond the Desktop.
  October 9, 2009 “Beyond the Desktop” affinity session with Jennifer Bove, Jody Forlizzi and Jake Barton at AIGA “Make/Think” conference in Memphis, USA.

• Small things x Big numbers.
  September 6, 2009 keynote at Kyoorius DesignYatra 2009 in Mumbai, India.

• Sustainable and Ethical Issues When Designing for the Masses.
  June 12, 2009 closing plenary at Usability Professionals’ Association – 2009 International Conference in Portland, USA.

• Utile, Utilisé, Utilisable.
  March 11, 2009 keynote at Le Mobile 2.0 in Paris, France organised by Christophe Romei.

• Homegrown.
  September 6, 2008 presentation to the LIFT Asia conference session “Aiming for a better society” in Jeju-do, South Korea.
  » Watch the talk on Liftconference.com.

Publications & Press

• TBD Catalog The catalog of the near future’s normal ordinary everyday edited and published by The Near Future Laboratory, August 2014.
  » Purchase TBD Catalog.

• Connecting A short film that explores trends in UI, Interaction, & Experience Design by Windows Phone Design Studio, December 2012.
  » Watch Connecting.

• Designing for Billions of People. Asia Design Journal 2010 Design for Social Innovation, 2010. Grignani R.
  » Read article.

• GQ Korea. Very Secret Issue 100. June 2009.

• CBC Radio Spark. Episode 52: Raphael Grignani designs mobile phones for billions of people hosted by Nora Young, November 2008.
  » Listen.

• The Race for Perfect: Inside the Quest to Design the Ultimate Portable Computer by Steve Hamm published in September 2008.
  » Buy on Amazon.

• The New York Times. Hoping to Make Phone Buyers Flip by Laura M. Holson published in February 2008.
  » Read article.

• Where’s the phone? A study of Mobile Phone Location in Public Spaces. Mobility ’05. Ichikawa, F., Chipchase J., & Grignani R.

Academia & Workshops

• Design Sprint. Week long workshop taught jointly at ENSCI – Les Ateliers, 2011-2019 in Paris, France.

• Customer Acquisition. Interaction Design Programme, Aug 2016, at CIID in Copenhagen, Denmark.

• Customer Relevance. Master in Business Innovation Module 2, 2013-2014, at CEDIM in Monterrey, Mexico City, Guadalajara, Mexico.

• To Be Designed Oct 1-5, 2012 design fiction product design workshop with Near Future Laboratory and Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design in Detroit, USA.

• Industrial Design 6 Course. Teaching CCA‘s Undergraduate Program Industrial Design 6 course Spring 2013 with Colin Owen, Robert Murdock, and Parul Vora in San Francisco, USA.

• Designing for Billions. February 4, 2010 workshop at Interaction10 in Savannah, USA.

Granted Patents

• A mobile terminal, and an associated method, with means for modifying a behavior pattern of a multi-medial user interface (Granted, Republic Of Korea, 02 Nov 2009, 0925759)

• System and method for assigning contact information to an external device (Granted, USA, 13 Feb 2007, US Pat. 7177597)

And eight pending patents.