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Gian Pangaro

Gian Pangaro co-leads the Consumer Experience Design group for IDEO Boston. He joined IDEO in Palo Alto in 2003, focusing on Interaction Design and Human Factors. Since then, he has led both strategic and tactical projects in a range of industries - software, mobile, automotive, health, financial services, and entertainment, to name a few.

Gian holds a BA in Sociology from Harvard University, where he studied ethnography, electronics, and music. He also earned an MS from the MIT Media Lab, where he studied Human-Computer Interaction and built hardware-software interfaces for Tangible Computing. In a parallel life, Gian is an active musician in the Boston area. He also builds, repairs, and restores musical instruments.