Designer & Researcher
I take work from the first interview to a working system — framing the problem, designing the interaction, building the prototype, and studying how it lands with the people who use it. I run my own studies, prototype in code, and publish what I learn.
Selected work
Designing and testing systems that carry a colleague's presence without demanding attention. Three display concepts, a comparative study with 24 people, and a working deployment with five teams in their own workplaces.
A low-cost pill box and the packaging system around it, designed so that taking medication at the right interval is the easy thing to do. Packaging, information design, product model, app concept, and a working Arduino prototype.
A balance-training game for ankle rehabilitation, controlled by shifting weight on a pressure pad. Built from the clinical exercise protocol, prototyped, and tried at home for a week by two people recovering from a sprain.
Professional design work: an enterprise platform for a car brand's dealer network, operational dashboards, e-commerce and corporate sites, a voice interface, identity and print. Dense data at one end, brand at the other.
About
I am finishing a PhD in Industrial Design at Eindhoven University of Technology, on a single question: how a system can carry information about other people without becoming another thing demanding attention. My work is published at ACM CSCW, DIS, CHI, NordiCHI and IASDR.
I work across the whole arc of a project. I run exploratory and semi-structured interviews, facilitate co-design and speculative workshops, and design the interaction and the interface that come out of them. I plan and run the evaluations too — comparative lab studies, usability sessions, surveys, and deployments in people's own workplaces — and analyse them with thematic analysis and statistics. When an existing instrument gets in the way, I build a better one.
I prototype in code. Every system I have evaluated, I also built: HTML, CSS and JavaScript, Python, Raspberry Pi and sensors. It means I bring engineers something running rather than a screenshot, and I can tell early whether a design idea is cheap or expensive. Before the PhD I designed for SAP, Netease Games, BBH London and Lenovo, and independently for startups, an NGO and an industrial IoT company — brand identity and visual systems at one end, dense operational dashboards at the other. Some of that work is collected here.
Contact
I am open to new work opportunities, including relocation.