Hi, I'm Atena

a Service Designer driving business transformation through customer-centric thinking.

Designer

about Me

Turning customer insight into direction

I’m a service designer with a background in technology, passionate about helping organizations become genuinely customer-centric, not just in what they say, but in how they think and make decisions.

My work focuses on customer-centric business transformation in complex, product- and sales-driven environments. I’m interested in how organizations translate customer understanding into strategic and operational choices, and why this often proves difficult in practice. In many contexts, customer insights exist, but fail to meaningfully influence direction, priorities, or ways of working.

I work with complex systems and cross-functional teams, where different functions operate with their own goals, metrics, and incentives. I facilitate collaboration, design customer journeys, and help teams align around shared understanding, bringing clarity to ambiguity and structure to messy problem spaces.

9+

Years of Experience

20+

Projects Completed

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My core Skills

Translating customer insight

Translating customer insight into action

I help organizations:

Make sense of qualitative and quantitative customer insights

Move insights out of decks and into everyday decision-making

  • Customer journey management

    Customer journey management & Experience design

    Designing and managing end-to-end customer journeys

    Identifying gaps, friction, and ownership issues across touchpoints

    Using journeys as a tool for alignment, not just visualization

    Cross-functional alignment

    Cross-functional alignment & facilitation

    Facilitating workshops that lead to shared understanding and decisions

    Bridging product, technology, commercial, and service perspectives

    Helping teams work through tension, ambiguity, and competing priorities

    Service design for complex systems

    Service design for complex systems

    I work with:

    Complex services, ecosystems, and internal structures

    Organizational constraints, incentives, and governance

    Long-term change, not one-off improvements


    Case Study

    My Case studies

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    Latest Blog

    My Latest Blog

    • 2 November, 2024
    • By Atena

    From Internal Pain Point to Customer Value: Rethinking How We Define Value Propositions

    Designing Change: What It Really Takes to Shift Ways of Working

    Making Experience Measurable: How to Evaluate Experience-Focused Journey Maps


    Testimonials

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    Contact me

    • atena.larni@gmail.com