Michał Janicki — IDEO
Making sense of complexity, aligning around strategy, and bringing future-facing ideas to life.

Human-Centered Design
IDEO Intro
Project Summary
Role
Communications Design Director
Agency
IDEO
Deliverables
Visual Systems
Prototypes
Storytelling
About the effort

As a communications design director at IDEO, my focus is helping teams and clients turn complex challenges into clear, compelling stories. I craft strategic narratives, visual systems, prototypes, and executive storytelling materials that give ideas shape, build alignment, and help move the work forward.
The Solution
A Focus on the Human

Much of my IDEO work cannot be shared publicly due to the confidential nature of consulting. However, below are a few thought pieces on AI, Prototyping and Health that I developed with the help of my brilliant coworkers.
Budget Pigeon
Rapid Prototyping with AI

In this experiment, I used AI to quickly bring an odd but charming idea to life: a budgeting advice platform filtered through the voice of a horoscope-writing pigeon. The project explored how AI can help designers move from concept to prototype with surprising speed, while still requiring human judgment, editing, and care to make the experience useful, safe, and emotionally resonant.

Read it here
Poetic Algorithms
Poetic Algorithms

This short moving-image experiment reimagines a 19th-century Polish poem through AI-generated video, voice, and music. It explores the emotional possibilities of machine-made media, while asking what still requires a human hand: authorship, memory, nostalgia, restraint, and meaning.

Read it here
More work
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