Working Experience
USETREE
Initiation of a usability competence network for SMBs in the Berlin area
Research project of ‘Hybrid-Platform’ by UdK and TU Berlin
Task: conception and management of projects to optimize usability by redesign of company software and interfacing.
CHANGELING
Graduate semester project about radically adaptable designs to suite diverse use cases.
Embracing change as a design driver.
TOTAL CONTROL
Basic studies project about the redesign of remotely controlled situations.
Controlling the physical with the analog. Meta Method: Natural Mapping.
INTERACTION BEYOND PIXELS
Keynote Presentation on Researching and Teaching holistic Interaction Design
Workshop on generative and algorithmic processual design
Grafill, Oslo 2013
IMOW RELOADED
Cooperation Project with Viking / STIHL AG
Short term project to rethink the robotic mowing experience. User case studies leading to integrated mobile apps prototypes.
since 2013
IXDS
Design Lead
2012
SÜDSTERN PRODUKTE
Founding our new office for digital Interaction- and Productdesign in Berlin
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT for OTTOBOCK.
Healthcare product development for ottobock. mobility.
Complete redesign of a kids wheelchair user experience.
GRADIENT GRID
Devepelopment of computational design workflow to create gradient mesh structures via a custom software.
International Patents pending.
SUPERMODELLING | Ein Hand-Hirn-Hand Training
Finding the right form and functionality to optimize or reinvent a use-process by focussing on prototyping
Semesterprojekt im Hauptstudium zur Konzeption und Gestaltung.
2011
MUSEUM FOR MEDIEVAL CITY DEFENSE for ART+COM AG.
Exhibition Experience Design including digital and analog stations.
Conception and Art Direction.
MONSTER 1x1
Concept Design and UI for interactive math learning App
KNIGGE FOR OBJECTS
Graduate Semester Project on ‘supercharging’ everyday objects with behavior by digital means.
Analysis and conception / usability studies.
HILTON SKY LOUNGE VIENNA for ART+COM AG
Conception for an interactive sightseeing experience with a view.
Spatial Design, Apps, digital Scopes , interactive Tables, virtual classroom and main show. Hilton Hotel Vienna.
PIXELAKROBATIC
Introduction into iterative Design Methods and Interaction Design via digital Prototyping. Semesterprojekt Basic Course.
2010
STATOIL HEADQUATERS for ART+COM AG
Holistic Brand Experience and Interaction Design for new Headquater, Forneby, Oslo.
Art Direction for spatial digital experiences, Apps, HR-Wall and digital CR communication.
BOULEVARD OF STARS for ART+COM AG with Graft Architects
Interactive Architecture and UX, Potsdamer Platz Berlin
Art Direction, Interaction and Object-Design
KING ABDULAZIZ CENTRE FOR KNOWLEDGE AND CULTURE for ART+COM AG
Multimedia Exibition-Centre on sientific, cultural and historic content in Saudi Arabia.
Conception and Concept-Visualization
THE END OF THE BLACK HOLES
Cooperation with VW Konzernforschung, Wolfsburg
Experimental Project on cockpit ‘screen saver’ design with added value.
COCKPIT
Visiting Professorship, Chinese-German Academy , Hangzhou, China
Interdisciplinary study project on radical redesign of car cockpits, involving Interaction Design, Visual Communication and Product Design.
INTERACTION DESIGN
Keynote on interaction design in an academic and commercial context, China Academy of Arts
HEADQUARTER SHOWROOM OTTOBOCK. for ART+COM AG
Interactive and hybrid showroom to experience more then 40.000 Products at the companies’ headquarter.
Holistic Design Conception, Art Direction, User-Experience-Concept and Production Management.
DIALOG DRIVE
Cooperation with VW Konzernforschung, Wolfsburg
Graduate Research and Desgin Project on Visual Feedback for In-Car Voice Control Systems.
PARALYMPICS VANCOUVER 2010 BRAND EXPERIENCE for ART+COM AG
Interactive brand experience, Art Direction and Production Mangament
“TRANS, INTER & CO” SNAPSHOT UDK 2010
Exibition of semesterprojects
Designtransfer Galerie, Berlin
INFORM
Cooperation with the Fraunhofer Institut of Technology
Graduate Project about augmenting everyday things in order to make them easier and more fun to use.
FORM/ING
Introduction into analog and digital experience prototyping. Basic Course
2009
AESTHETICS OF MOVEMENT
A closer look on the behavior of things then try to create an aesthetic movement
of different aspects or the entire object, either digital or analog. Graduate Project.
“ARBEIT, SINN UND SORGE”- EXIBITION for ART+COM AG
Interactive, three-dimensional representation of statistical data, facts and interviews for an exhibition at Hygienemusem Dresden.
KINDERKRAM
Visiting Professorship, Chinese-German Academy , Hangzhou, China
Project on gamified learning for children. Focus on Design Thinking.
PARS PRO TOTO & PRIVATE FACTORY
Exibition at the Kommunikationsmuseum, Berlin 2009 during the “Lange Nacht der Museen”
PARS PRO TOTO
Modular Systems and new spatial structures. Tapping into new production methods, Pars Pro Toto explored bottom-up design strategies to build unconventional spatial structures. Graduate Project.
2008
INITIAL OF ASSISTANT PROFESSORSHIP
at Prof. Burkhard Schmitz, ID5, Project Group for Interactive Systems
Institute for Product- and Process Design and Institute for Time-Based Media
The Berlin University of the Arts
HERMANN HENSELMANN for FORM+ZWECK VERLAG, Berlin
Book celebrating Hermann Henselmann’s 100th Birthday
Concept for Visualization, Layout and Illustration
PRIVATE FACTORY GOES ARS ELECTRONIC
in Kooperation with Hyperwerk/ Acar 2 (Basel)
Exibition and Panel Discussion at Ars Electronica Festival 2008, Linz
FERNWEH
Interactive installation on telepresens and Keynote at the Share-Festival, Turin 2008
PRIVATE FACTORY
Teaching Assingment at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK)
Graduate Project on rethinking urban resources via personalized local production and rapid prototyping strategies.
LILI #6
Gestalterinnen-Preis for “Mitki”, 2008
2007
FORM +ZWECK #22 for FORM+ZWECK Verlag, Berlin
Bi-Lingual Magazin on Tangible User Interfaces.
Concept Visualization, Layout and Illustration.
PARAMETRIC CUTLERY
Interactive Configurator for generative ‘in situ’ Production
Exhibition in various locations.
Studies
Oktober 2007
MITKI, Final Thesis, Conception and Design.
Satchel with patented support system. Designed with a custom developed motion tracking software for ergonomic optimization. Theoretic work on ergonomic working situations for kids.
The Berlin University of the Arts (UdK Berlin)
Prof. Burkhard Schmitz, Dipl.- Des. Robert Laux
(Note: 1,0)
März 2006 - August 2006
Internship at Frank Fietzek,
Studio for New Media /Werkstatt 4
April 2006 - September 2007
Tutoress for integrated CAD and CNC Processes
Institute for Product- and Process Design
The Berlin University of the Arts (UdK Berlin)
April 2005 - September 2007
Instigator Online Service
Conception, production and advancement of a wiki-based platform for external communication.
Institute for Product- and Process Design, Institute for Time-based Media, Institute for Experminental Fashion- and Textile Design
April 2005 - September 2007
ID5, Project Group for Interactive Systems
Prof. Burkhard Schmitz
The Berlin University of the Arts (UdK Berlin)
Oktober 2003 - September 2007
Advanced Study Period at Prof. Burkhard Schmitz
ID5 Project Group for Interactive Systems
Interaction and Product-Design
The Berlin University of the Arts (UdK Berlin)
Oktober 1998 - September 2003
Basic Studies Industrial Design
The Berlin University of the Arts (UdK Berlin)
*1974
Software Knowledge
ADOBE CREATIVE SUITE:Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, Actionscript
PROCESSING
PROENGINEER CREO: Part Design, Assemblies, technical drawings, CNC/CAM
RHINOCEROS 3D
SOLID WORKS
iWORK: Keynote, Numbers, Pages
MICROSOFT OFFICE: Word, Powerpoint, Excel
Languages
German: native
English: fluent
French and Italien: conversant