Frances Lai
 

hello! 

i'm a Researcher / designer

 
 
 
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nice to meet you

my background

I have spent my career moving across disciplines: architecture, research design, and film production. Each discipline sharpened how I understand people and the systems they inhabit. This cross-disciplinary lens is now the thing I bring most deliberately to my work.

 
 
 
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Focus

WHAT I DO

My work sits at the intersection of research and design. I’m interested in how insights about human behaviour translate into better products, spaces, and systems. And in building the practices that make that translation repeatable.

 
 
 
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going forward

Where i want to be

I’m drawn to organizations where design and research are taken seriously as a way of understanding people, and where that understanding has a real path to influencing what gets built.

 
 
 
 
 
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