Naomi May

Service Designer and Project Manager

Specialises in: service design, research, human and planet-centred design, and design strategy

Naomi is a service designer at Namahn with a background in both service and industrial design. She joined the team this year and has been working on digital strategy and project management ever since. Prior to this, she taught on the postgraduate Space and Service course at Thomas More.

In recent years, she has begun exploring planet-centric design and is increasingly shifting toward systemic design, though she considers herself a problem solver in the broadest sense. She has gained valuable experience through an internship in circularity and nudging behaviour, served as lead service and industrial designer for Futureproof (a reuse packaging company), and completed an internship focused on the UX of impact investing.

Naomi is passionate about collaborative design processes and regularly facilitates workshops and co-creation sessions, with her work encompassing research and strategic thinking through a lens of circularity. She has exhibited her previous industrial design work at the KNAL! Energiefestival in Mechelen and Gent Design Festival, showcasing her multidisciplinary approach to design challenges.

Outside of work, Naomi is an avid cycle tourist who struggles to keep up with her much more athletic wife. She hunts for speciality coffee, converts campervans, and loves to build and design with natural materials. With a background in permaculture, she enjoys working with nature and hands-on creation, whether that’s cooking elaborate meals or tackling construction projects. She has recently taken up slacklining, and her love for reading provides a perfect counterbalance to her active, hands-on lifestyle.