Live | Work

Design | Transform

ArtVIA is an award-winning design firm, offering workspace strategy + design centered on the Art of Living + Working Well for residential and commercial space. Our design philosophy is centered around the improvement of human experiences, feeding the mind and engaging the senses while enabling productive interactions in a physical environment, either At Home or At Work.

OUR APPROACH

Our Workspace Strategy + Design team works with organizations to create cost-effective workplace solutions that improve organizational effectiveness and foster collaborative engagements consistent with corporate culture and values.

Our approach starts with customized Workspace Strategy, the preferred path of setting successful workplace projects apart from costly ones that don’t produce results. This is a dynamic alignment of the organization’s goals, future business outlooks, then we drill down to the needs of its occupants and visiting customers. In an aim to create a measurable employee satisfaction supported by workspace environment and design, we also offer change management to build consensus, buy-in, and engagement of employees input into space solutions.

Ultimately, elevated work experience is achieved through company-specific alignment of physical space configuration and desired human interactions into a rich physical work environment mix – from buildings, acoustics, lighting to private offices, cubicles, open desking, meeting rooms, quiet rooms, maker’s spaces, and brainstorming hive – finding the right agile mix, has a significant effect on people’s behavior and performance.

RESULTS

artVIA workplace strategy + design solutions create an environment where employees and customers are engaged in value creation for the business as an integrated whole. Through our targeted approach towards creating activity-based and efficient use of office space that was previously static and dedicated, often unoccupied and expensive, predictably leading to a twenty to fifty percent improvement in asset performance.

The flexibility of choice for employees to be at their most productive in a variety of work settings will increase opportunities for face-to-face and virtual collaboration, and facilitate vital business priorities such as knowledge sharing, and innovation. Considerable cost savings associated with the real estate portfolio, due to space-reduction opportunities and altering workspace allocations can be achieved.

Meet Ariana 

Over the last decade, she has a proven track record in leading artVIA to deliver award-winning design solutions and highly-praised consulting services that her clients value.  

Ariana Smetana is a multi-faceted, left and right-brain strategic thinker, with global leadership skills honed over 20 years of international experiences. She has consistently positioned the firm to deliver high levels of customer satisfaction, quality of project management services, and creative solutions in commercial and residential spaces to transform and elevate the users' experiences. Her firm has developed a comprehensive targeted approach towards delivering business results through creating user-centered & activity-based workplaces that lead to an improvement in collaboration, knowledge transfer, team's interactions, along with design being in alignment with culture, and visual brand identity that ‘speak’ the same visual messages to internal and external customers.

She has degrees in B.S. Economics, and Interior Design, and professional skills that span over careers at PWC in London, UK, Continental Airlines, and Shell Oil in Houston TX. 

She is a keen learner, continuously expanding her knowledge through research, conferences and professional developments to keep the pulse on trends that impact businesses. As well, she evolves her design sensibilities and inspirations through extensive travels to places in the U.S.A., Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Australia.  Since 1997, she calls Houston home, after growing up and living in Zagreb, Croatia, and as well in London, UK.