Luis Felipe Moreno Leyva

He is a designer and design educator with more than a decade of professional experience; he got involved in the design industry before starting his undergraduate studies, and then combined studying Industrial Design with part-time design jobs, to eventually join the design industry as full-time designer upon his graduation. Throughout the years, he has worked for several companies both as an in-house designer, as well as consultant-freelance designer, which allowed him to collaborate in design projects for clients located mainly in Latin America, in the fields of furniture, packaging, retail displays fixtures, exhibition, accessories, graphic and interior design.As a design educator, before coming to China in 2019 to teach at a University in Ningbo, he taught Product and Industrial design since 2011 at different Higher Education Institutions in India and Mexico. He is a lifelong learner who values the importance of implementing student-centered learning and user-centered design; that is why as part of his PhD, he explored and gained a better understanding about the multiple factors involved in the processes of educating the future generations of object designers.

Design for sustainable development

Regenerative design

Human factors

Universal design

Creative thinking

Design education as a tool for development

Traditional craftsmanship and the preservation of cultural heritage

Visiting Teaching Fellow - Product Design and Manufacture / The University of Nottingham Ningbo China / 2019-2020.

Assistant Professor - Product Lifestyle Design / Pearl Academy, India / 2018-2019.

Associate Professor - Industrial Design / Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México / 2017.

Program Director - Product Design (Bangalore Campus) / Raffles Education Corporation (RMI), India / 2015-2016.

Product Design Lecturer / Raffles Education Corporation (RMI), India / 2011-2016.

Worked for different manufacturing companies-design studios since 2005, taking on diverse roles and responsibilities in different design projects in which he was part of.

IND213 - Ergonomics (21/22, 22/23, 23/24)

IND405 - Transdisciplinary Design (22/23, 23/24)

IND401 - Framing Design Research (22/23, 23/24)

IND210 - User-Focused Research (22/23, 23/24)

DES003 - Principles of Design (23/24)

IND308 - Design Strategy and Ethics (21/22, 22/23)

IND311 - Professional Practice (21/22)

2022, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. Graduated with honours Cum Laude for the research La labor de diseñar diseñadores de objetos en países con economías en desarrollo. Un estudio bilateral, multifactorial y comparativo de la enseñanza del diseño en países análogos: México e India.