Jenna Fizel
Jenna Fizel is a senior director at IDEO, inspired by translating abstract information into tangible experiences. Jenna helps teams explore design questions through building with emerging tools like AI, XR, and digital fabrication. They believe these new tools can provide new perspectives during the design process. In addition, Jenna leads an 80+ person internal group focused on making technical skills more accessible to IDEO's diverse community. Previously, they were a partner at an agency designing mixed physical/digital spaces for museums and companies. Jenna also co-founded a fashion tech startup and served as CTO of an intimate apparel firm. With an academic background in computational geometry from MIT, they see software as a mode of thinking that solves problems through exploration.
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