Summary
J. Neeley is a London-based Director, Service Designer and Speculative Designer with 10+ years crafting futures-focused experiences across healthcare, consumer brands and social systems. He founded Neeley Worldwide and co-runs experimental studios like the School of Critical Design and Masamichi Souzou, applying speculative methods to climate, AI, synthetic biology and wellbeing challenges. His professional practice blends hands-on service design at Mayo Clinic and Teton Radiology with strategic insight work at Unilever, translating complex research into actionable interventions and provocative prototypes. A seasoned educator and critic, he has shaped curricula and mentored at RCA, Imperial, RISD and others, pairing rigorous RCA training with a communications-and-economics foundation from Northwestern. Notably, he consults on Parlia’s mission to map global opinions, reflecting his interest in designing systems that improve civic discourse rather than just products. Quietly interdisciplinary, he balances analytical rigor with a love of cello, chess and open, blank sheets of paper.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MA, MA at Royal College of Art
Bachelor of Science - BSc, Bachelor of Science - BSc at Northwestern University