Nadine Bennett

Biography

Nadine Bennett is an experienced Product designer and educator working in both physical and digital creative fields. Her real passion is guiding the next generation of young designers, building their skills, confidence, and ambition to push boundaries and use their talent professionally to create desirable, useful, and intelligent design solutions. She measures her success on the success of the graduates she has mentored, with past alumni heading departments in some of the UK global leading businesses. Born and educated in the UK she has worked for a variety of companies, predominantly as an inhouse designer working on user centred design challenges for personal safety, retail pop ups and interactive toys. During this time, she built expertise in both 3D and 2D CAD.


Her drive is to ensure that design decisions are made to balance sustainability and commercial needs, this requires a clear understanding of material selection and waste material management. "I strongly believe that imparting this essential design thinking to young designers' working process will drive positive change, build exciting, innovative results and help mitigate further negative impact on our environment". Outside of education Nadine creates interactive digital products and aims to make these engaging and balances activities for young users.