Mileha Soneji

Mileha Soneji, a renowned TED Speaker, believes that having empathy and being able to put yourself in another person's shoes is what makes for great human centered design.

Mileha Soneji is a trained strategic product designer, originally hailing from the city of Pune in India. She currently works in the Netherlands as a strategic designer. Her work entails combining the fuzzy front-end of the design process with emerging technologies to answer the question of what needs to be designed in the future. After graduation, she got 2 of years of work experience in India as a Product Designer, where she quickly realized that apart from the actual tangible design, a successful product needs a backbone of thorough research in user needs and market analysis. This led her to pursuing her career in Strategic Product Design in the Netherlands. Her TED talk is now about 918 thousand views and counting.