Radical Design
CAMEo Research Institute, University of Leicester
Teaching & talks
Teaching people to build with AI.
Diana has taught design and product for more than a decade, from Senior Lecturer in Product Design at Nottingham Trent University to AI-native product building for MA students at IED Madrid today. Guest lectures, workshops and talks in English or Spanish.
Current
Teaching and mentoring.
- Annual · latest April 2026Lecturer, MA programmesIED Madrid (Istituto Europeo di Design)
AI-native product building for MA students who are not engineers: from a worthy problem to a working product with LLMs and coding agents, inside one course. Runs every year.
- 2026 –Mentor, venture and business coachLondon College of Communication (UAL)
Venture evaluation lectures and one-to-one mentoring for student and graduate founders.
- 2026Judge, LCC Accelerate 2026UAL with the NatWest Accelerator
Early-stage venture panel.
- OngoingIn-house trainingCompanies and teams
Vibecoding workshops that get product, design and operations teams shipping internal tools with AI coding agents.
- OngoingEducation AmbassadorCREATE
Creative, STEM and entrepreneurship education across the UK.
Academic posts
Earlier academic roles.
- 2017 – 2019Senior Lecturer in Product DesignNottingham Trent University
Year 1 BSc lead; portfolio and industry tutor; MA and MSc supervisor.
- 2018 – 2019Guest Lecturer and Curriculum ConsultantUniversity of Worcester
BA Product Design.
Invited talks and lectures
Talks since 2017.
Under Her Eye: Women in Sustainability, Design & Policy
British Library, London
Designers in Industry
Nottingham Trent University
Idea generation workshops (with Magnus Long)
Central Saint Martins, London
Design and entrepreneurship
Tekoa Academy, Orange, Texas
Earlier talks (2014–2016), including the European Commission and Central Saint Martins, are in the archive.