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Alexander Lau

Alexander Lau

  • Principal Design Lead at Innovation Lab of Public Service Division, Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore
A veteran design professional with almost 30 years’ experience, Alexander owned and led award-winning multi-disciplinary design consultancies, working with international clients in the transportation, military, healthcare, security, hospitality, wellness, food and beverage, and retail industries. The projects range from strategy and conceptualization for value creation, all the way through to production, optimization, and project management. Today, it is unlikely for anyone, who is out and about in Singapore, not to encounter something designed by Alexander.

In 2011, he made a career switch to head the Design Excellence Centre at the Institute of Technical Education College Central, where he designed the Design Thinking curriculum and developed Continuing Education Training Workshops for adult learners. More than 3,000 adult and student learners have been trained/coached by Alexander.

Since 2014 – and in his current role as Principal Design Lead at Innovation Lab of Public Service Division, Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore – Alexander advocates for human-centric, collaborative, and experimental mindsets in the design of government policies and services. He is applying his skills and experience to build capabilities and capacity in design-led public-sector innovation. Innovation Lab’s work supports Public Sector Transformation in bringing multiple agencies together to collaborate and design healthcare, social, municipal, and economic policies and services that prioritize citizens’ experience and outcomes over an individual agency’s interests.

Design Thinking

Design thinking is at least an iterative process for problem solving, centred around human needs. It is an approach to creative problem solving, often addressing ‘wicked problems’ that involve multiple interconnected stakeholders and systems, with no distinct solution pathways

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