About us

We started Cosmic Velocity because we care about design as a practice, believe in inclusivity as a default state and prefer unpicking wicked problems as a primary time pass.

About us

We started Cosmic Velocity because we care about design as a practice, believe in inclusivity as a default state and prefer unpicking wicked problems as a primary time pass.

About us

We started Cosmic Velocity because we care about design as a practice, believe in inclusivity as a default state and prefer unpicking wicked problems as a primary time pass.

About us

We started Cosmic Velocity because we care about design as a practice, believe in inclusivity as a default state and prefer unpicking wicked problems as a primary time pass.

Founding team

Our founders combine over 40 years of experience leading design at a variety of organisations.

Olena Bulygina

Olena is a serial founder having run her own tech startup and more recently leading design for Zeilen Van Vrijheid, a non-profit that has shipped over 150 ambulances to Ukraine. She successfully combines a love of academia with deep ethnographic research skills to help organisations solve systemic problems.

Aleks Melnikova

Aleks has led various design teams across top UX/product design agencies such as ORM, Foolproof, BIO, Radley Yeldar, Publicis Poke and Inviqa (ex-Webcredible), delivering successful products and services for many clients worldwide. She’s driven by passion for helping people and businesses create truly inclusive experiences.

Stephen Tomlinson

Stephen has led UX, research and strategy projects for London Fashion Week, BSI, Public Health England and Molton Brown among many other well-known UK brands. He loves teaching and skills development, and has created and taught many training courses on topics such service design, user research, and data visualisation.

Our design studio

Drop by our offices in the heart of North Greenwich’s Design District.

Let’s work together

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Let’s work together

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We help companies design inclusive products and services, do better research and create happier teams.

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We help companies design inclusive products and services, do better research and create happier teams.

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