Jane's approach to design was shaped early in her career in Milan, where she learned directly from Andrea Branzi and Alessandro Mendini, and through her subsequent work with Stefano Marzano. There she encountered an understanding of design capable of questioning its own conventions rather than simply producing solutions. This way of thinking has remained fundamental throughout her career.

Jane continues to work as a designer, creating functional objects through an accumulated understanding of proportion, construction, material, process and precision. This continuing practice keeps her directly engaged with the knowledge and processes that enable her to examine design from another position.

Through her sculptural enquiry, Art After Industry, Jane investigates design by deliberately removing function while retaining its intelligence and processes. Without use as its justification, proportion, material, surface and precision take on another role. By taking away function while preserving the intelligence of design, Jane exposes what remains.