About

Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino is an interaction designer & entrepreneur. She has been focused on the “internet of things” and its implications in the design of everyday products since 2005.

She co-founded and ran Tinker London, a smart product design studio from 2007 to 2010. Focused on creating connected product experiences that linked the digital to the physical, Tinker was the first distributor of the Arduino platform in the UK, ran more than 50 workshops and offered design and consultancy services to clients around the world.

In January 2011, she founded Designswarm as an “internet of things” design studio & consultancy. She works with clients who want to design the next generation of connected products and uses her expertise to help shape early business ideas around smart products. She also works with larger clients who want to know how this area applies to their business.

She is the founder of Good Night Lamp, a family of internet-connected lamps.

She is also a collaborator at the design partnership RIG London

She is co-curator of the London editions of the
Internet of Things meetup and This Happened .

Her work has been exhibited at the Milan Furniture Fair, London Design Festival, The Victoria & Albert Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Find her on twitter or see her linkedin profile.