About me

Even though becoming a baker was my first ambition, only few pies and cakes were baked and instead I filled my schoolbooks with all sorts of drawings and random graphic creations. At the age of 18, a master in Product design seemed to be the final decision, which resulted in all sorts of foam shape cutting, post-it sticking, fast and dirty sketching design activities. While working my way through various projects, my appreciation for beautiful, honest, clean and smart pieces of design only grew stronger but at the same time an increasing amount of attention was paid to the user perspective and the interface of my creations. Finally, it was clear: no pies but Interaction design.
Though the experience gained during my studies and at design agencies was extremely useful, an adventurous decision was made to move to my Dutch friends in the north in order to find out what the post-master “User System Interaction” was truly all about. There I was able to apply my broad pallet of designer skills to a series of highly interesting team-projects, while at the same time learning a lot from colleagues with varying backgrounds and cultures, experimenting with interesting tools and having a lot of fun while doing so.
And now? What’s left is a clear ambition to change the conventional way of designing. An ambition to design practical systems that are useful, intuitive, fun and intriguing. Products that move people instead of annoying them.
Besides GUIs, TUIs and maybe even some NUIs, I also have some hobbies. Those hobbies include, but are not limited to photography, traveling, music, blogging and a fair amount of sports like running, squashing, swimming and biking