Summary
Inna Lobel is a multidisciplinary design and innovation leader, weaving together design strategy, physical and digital design, brand, as well as technology and engineering, to create cohesive product and user experiences that people love. Inna helps teams, from pre-seed to Fortune 50, go from zero to one across a broad range of industry verticals and product types, including consumer electronics, healthcare, climate tech, connected products and sustainability.
Experience
Head of Industrial Design & Product Development, North America | Interim Head of Ventures, New York (2022-2023)
frog
2015-present
Lead a cross-disciplinary practice advancing frog’s physical-digital design capability across consumer electronics, healthcare, and physical AI.
Adjunct Professor
NYU Stern School of Business & Tisch ITP
2019-present
- Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship (co-created)
- Designing for People (created)
Senior Product Designer
Apple
2011-2015
Research Assistant
MIT Media Lab
2008-2011
Advisory
Impact Council Member
FastCo
2025-present
A network of leaders shaping the future of business through innovation and thought leadership.
Mentor
Endless Frontier Labs
2025-present
The Endless Frontier Labs (EFL) is a mentorship program that helps founders transform their science and tech based ideas into commercially scalable companies.
Education
MIT Media Lab. MS Media Arts and Sciences
MIT. MS, Mechanical Engineering | BS, Engineering & Product Design
WIN Rising Star Award, Sep 2022
Recognized for leading commercially successful, inventive design initiatives.
CES Innovation Award, DUO Carafe, 2019
IDEA International Design Excellence Award, Tetra Dishwasher, 2019
CES Best of Innovations Award for Home Appliances, Tetra Dishwasher, 2019
CES Editors Choice Award, Tetra Dishwasher, 2018
Speaking Engagements & Publications
Computers were designed for humans, robots should be too, Fast Company, 2025 link
Wizards on Top with frog’s Inna Lobel, Redacted Podcast, 2025 link
Insight into Insights, NYU Stern, 2025
Climate Robotics, Deep Tech Forum, Moderator, 2025 link
Sustainability Panel, Capgemini Global Sustainability Summit, 2025
Design Thinking, Capgemini, 2024
Shaping the World for Good, Design Mind Podcast, 2023 link
Women In Design NYC, Inaugural Lecture, 2023
Episode #106, WIN/WIN: Women in Innovation Podcast, 2023
Design Thinking: Inspiration, NYU Stern, 2023
Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship, NYU Stern, 2022
Designing for a Circular Economy and Sustainability, NYU Tandon, 2020
Designing for People (created), NYU Tisch ITP, 2019, 2020
The Future of Collaborative Making, SF Design Week, 2021
Building Empathy With Your Customer, UrbanX Accelerator, 2017
Awards
Select Industries
Consumer electronics, Technology, Healthcare, Climate tech, Connected products, Mobility, Sustainability, Telecommunications, Retail
Select Clients
Aircapture, Apple, AT&T, Campfire, Chipotle, Google, Harley-Davidson, Identifeye Health, Intel, J.P. Morgan, JPMorgan Chase, Verizon, Kimberly-Clark, Mammoth Biosciences, Tim Hortons, Walmart, XCMR
Patents & Applications
Advanced Haptics
Contracting and elongating materials for providing input and output for an electronic device
Patent number: US11402911
Patent number: US10481691
Electronic device including selectively operable audio output transducers of transducer port/radiator pairs and related methods
Patent number: US9870055
Electronic device including acoustically isolated passive radiator and related methods
Patent number: US9723399
Electronic device including acoustically isolated passive radiator within a baffle space and related methods
Patent number: US9681216
Electronic device including acoustically isolated serpentine port and related methods
Patent number: US9681217