The School of Design

Apologies for the late post, but the vibes from “The Future of Product Design and AI” had us floating! 🚀

From industry expert sharing their latest discoveries, the room was ablaze with creativity. By night’s end, we hope that everyone walked away with a fresh perspective.

Swipe through to relive the highlights! 📸

We are beyond excited and grateful for the upcoming event on the 31st of July!

🙏 A special thank you to our host, Catalina Banuleasa, for bringing her charisma and energy to lead the evening.

✨ A huge shoutout to our incredible speakers:

Dragos Manescu, SVP Tech Product & AI Me
Alex Grigorescu, CEO Crypto & Product Manager
Andrei Baican, Head of Customer Experience Transilvania
Andrei Ganci, Sr. Product Manager Systems
We can’t wait to hear your insights on AI and product design.

📍 And a heartfelt thank you to Seneca Anticafe for providing the perfect venue for our event. Your welcoming atmosphere sets the stage for an unforgettable evening.

Looking forward to an inspiring night with all of you!

Get ready for an epic evening! With the design community buzzing after some transformative years, now’s the perfect time to connect again and get inspired.

​We’ve lined up five rockstar who are shaping the future of products:

​⚡️Catalina Banuleasa - CEO & Founder , Ex FIFA (also our charismatic host)

​⚡️Dragos Manescu - SVP Tech Product & AI Me

​⚡️Alex Grigorescu - CEO Crypto & Product Manager

​⚡️Andrei Baican - Head of Customer Experience Transilvania

​⚡️Andrei Ganci - Sr. Product Manager Systems

​They’ll be diving deep into how AI is revolutionizing product design and what it means for us as designers.

​Spread the hype and rally all your designer friends—both seasoned pros and newbies. This is your chance to hang out, exchange ideas, and network with some of the coolest folks in the Romanian design scene.

​Don’t miss out! See you there for a night of inspiration, and good vibes.

Meet Adi!

I really felt the need to do a huge step this year. I changed my profession four years ago, from financial audit to web design and lately I felt the need to add this type of education to my experience. I’m also excited to meet new people, learn new perspectives and overall get uncomfortable. I need that sometimes and lately my life became a bit too comfy.

Meet Oli!

For me, design is the representation of a solution to a certain problem.

It means detaching yourself from your own person and your biases and trying to look from other points of view.

This design school is a way to experience what design means in the context of real problems and how I can become a more understanding and creative person.

Meet Alina!

I didn't find "The School". "The School" found me. Better say that because I was in a moment when I knew I need a change in my next step career after other many changes and trials along the way.

Too comfortable in my shoes but curious about the opportunity to finally know what's and how's the process "behind the scene" of a digital product or service built eventually by me.

I challenge myself to be more creative than technical.

I want to learn to be comfortable with the unknown, embrace it until the unknown becomes known.

I am Daniela, an emotional person but at the same time realistic, taking the final decisions sometimes with the heart but sometimes with the head.

I am an expert in Supply Management, and I enjoyed my job a lot in the last 16 year, as every day was coming with a new challenge and no day was like the other day.

I am the person who enjoys the journey more than the destination. I love to learn, to develop myself in any area, to be today smarter or wiser than yesterday. I believe the world is an Ocean of knowledge and I would like to access a new piece of it every day.

I have a positive mind set which brings me a huge energy, I am passionate about mathematics, and I believed that I could not deal with the creative part of this World. I always want to challenge myself and maybe that's why I decided today to join The School of Design.

Meet Silvia!

I’ve always been very close to design, especially during the past few years, with graphics, branding and communication.
I’m now in a sabbatical, where I realized where I need to be heading my career towards and that is design.
Even though I’ve done many projects involving design, I felt the need to gain a solid base in product design, here.

I’ve always been very much into art, painting and pottery, especially.
Lately I decided to be more open to new opportunities and to perhaps face a fear of failure by jumping into something that truly excites me.

At work, I help my clients get to insights and hypotheses, as a Data Analyst. That’s how I discovered UX,
as we were noticing how usually poor performance indicated poor UX.
Now I want to learn more so I can provide them with well informed action plans and I also want to contribute to inclusivity in design.

World, meet Iulia!

“I’ve always been passionate about putting people first and I feel I can also do this on my new journey in the UX design world.

Love the idea of being creative daily and the thought that I could contribute to create products with better design, that will provide better experiences, totally thrills me.

I’m a positive person, always with a large smile on my face, looking forward to solve real world problems!”

Designers, meet Laura.

“I like the colour red, stand-up comedy and burgers 😁I know. 3 random facts about me, but wanting to learn more about UX design is not that random.

Actually, it is something that I have wanted to do for a while now. For me, it all started with wanting to learn a thing or two about graphic design, that would help me in my work as a marketing professional. And then I stumbled upon some really interesting concepts like UX design and design thinking and I found out that design is not about making things look cool.

But learning on your own can sometimes be tricky and challenging and that is why I turn to you, the School of Design, to help me in my journey.
Having mentors to guide me and be there for me when the road gets bumpy and a team with people who share the same interest in UX design as I do is just the cherry on top.

The School of Design will be a great challenge to learn new things and new skills that will help me both in my career and in my life. And what I am most excited about is learning a new approach to solving problems and coming up with creative solutions and applying everything in real life.”

Meet Anca, ENFP, from Bucharest!

“This year I made the decision to make the full transition from architect to UX/Ui designer.

Undoubtedly, architecture will forever live in my heart and help me along the way, but in UX I feel that I truly belong as a designer.

At this moment I have a great need for structured and guided learning but also, as important, I seek teamwork practice. For a few years now I’ve had different side projects where I was the solo designer and I can’t wait for this to change. Working together with other people motivates me greatly.

I look forward to this new experience. I can already say that I am really impressed and very curious about what’s to come.”

We are glad to have you this year, Anca!