Diego Snayers

Diego Snayers

Service designer · Masters sprinter

Insightful Design · Inspired Performance

Rotterdam · NLScroll to run ↓

01 Insight → Action

Taking you from insights to action

I'm a digital service designer with 10+ years' experience. I use systems thinking and human-centred design to create digital services that actually make a difference.

  • Systems thinking
  • Human-centred design
  • Enterprise & finance
  • Global health

02 Action → Performance

From action to performance

I'm a designer who loves my sport from the inside out, and this gives me a rare profile. I combine the performance mindset with the intuitive design process.

Race 1

Biokinetics

Studied at the University of Pretoria, focused on how the body thinks, moves, performs and recovers within an individual or organisational setting, as well as sport management and corporate wellness.

Race 2

Service design

A decade designing digital services across banking, enterprise systems and global health.

Race 3

Athlete

Masters sprinter over 60 m and 100 m, representing the Netherlands.

03 Selected work

Work that helps people perform

  • ING Wholesale Banking

    Expert service designer working with delivery & product teams to execute operational and digitalisation strategy.

    2025 – 2026
  • Rabobank

    Transformation strategist and service designer.

    2024
  • Futurice

    Lead service designer in Stockholm, Sweden.

    2023
  • ING Innovation Lab

    Senior service designer leading research and development of new service and product concepts with a strong business case.

    2019 – 2022
  • Aviro Health

    Service designer for a mobile education and clinic app, serving 100K+ patients in Sub-Saharan Africa.

    2018 – 2019
  • Nedbank

    Service and UX designer for digital learning and chatbot design.

    2017 – 2018

04 Results board

Performance metrics

Experience07

  1. 0111 yrsExperience in service and UX design
  2. 028,000 hrsOf user research
  3. 03≈800Workshops facilitated
  4. 0425+Corporate innovation projects
  5. 053Specialised design courses completed
  6. 062×Global design conferences as a speaker
  7. 072Master's thesis candidates mentored

Impact05

  1. 0130–100kUsers reached by digital products and services I helped design
  2. 02≈€300kCost saved by mitigating investment risk, in an internal innovation team
  3. 03≈30%Time saved in discovery and validation through creative research, in a product team
  4. 04−3 monthsDevelopment time and cost saved at a digital product startup
  5. 052 → 12FTE growth of a multidisciplinary design team, as co-lead

05 FinishLane 4

Insightful Design
· Inspired Performance

I'm here to design human digital solutions which empower and liberate people and communities to grow and perform.

Email
diego.snayers@gmail.com
Find me
Based in
Rotterdam, NL