Summary
Filippo Gianessi is a Senior Growth Product Designer with a decade of experience crafting monetization-led experiences and stewarding design systems, currently leading growth design and acting as Design System Technical Owner at YAZIO. Based in Faenza, Italy, he blends a strong technical foundation in computer science with academic and workshop training in service design, color theory, and data-driven visual storytelling. Previously Head of Design at Spreaker and a long-time UX/UI practitioner, he has a track record of scaling product design across startups and media projects, including co-creating a visual journalism brand. He also mentors startups at Contamination Lab, bringing practical startup guidance alongside hands-on execution. Not obvious from titles: he pairs motion and editorial design roots with system-level design ops, enabling both polished interfaces and maintainable component ecosystems.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Anatomy of a magazine, with Davide Mottes, Workshop, -, Anatomy of a magazine, with Davide Mottes, Workshop, - at Kerning 2016
University of Bologna
The aesthetics of new data narrative workshop with Nicholas Felton e Francesco Franchi, Workshop, The aesthetics of new data narrative workshop with Nicholas Felton e Francesco Franchi, Workshop at Kerning
reaction, information design's workshop with martin foessleitner and giuseppe attoma, Information design, reaction, information design's workshop with martin foessleitner and giuseppe attoma, Information design at AIAP
Il colore e la colorimetria, with Enrico Versa and Adalberto Monti, Workshop, -, Il colore e la colorimetria, with Enrico Versa and Adalberto Monti, Workshop, - at ISIA Faenza
Workshop, Service design thinking, Workshop, Service design thinking at Isia Faenza
Italian, English