Design will kill marketing, says Ikea’s former design chief
Marcus Engman is leaving Ikea to run a consultancy that convinces companies to spend their marketing budget on what matters: design.

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Ran Zhao (Designer); Samantha Neufeld (User Researcher); Jeanne Parson (Audio designer); Rob Frye (Interaction Designer); Anirudh Koul (Founder and Researcher); Saqib Shaikh (Tech Lead); Eugene Seleznev (Software Engineer); Meher Kasam (Software Engineer); Harrison Wray (Software Engineer)
Ran Zhao (Designer); Samantha Neufeld (User Researcher); Jeanne Parson (Audio designer); Rob Frye (Interaction Designer); Anirudh Koul (Founder and Researcher); Saqib Shaikh (Tech Lead); Eugene Seleznev (Software Engineer); Meher Kasam (Software Engineer); Harrison Wray (Software Engineer)
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Lucas Joppa, Chief Environmental Scientist at Microsoft (Leads AI for Earth); Ranveer Chandra, Principle Researcher at Microsoft (Leads FarmBeats)
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Jonathan Foster – Designer; Deborah Harrison – Designer; Ron Owens – Designer; Tulasi Menon – Product manager; Sai Neppali – Product manager; Somi Reddy Satti - Developer; Radhakrishnan Srikanth – Product manager; Bill Dolan – Microsoft Research AI and Cortana Editorial team AI and R India team Microsoft Research- NLP team