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Olivier Brückner is a design engineer, currently based in Berlin.

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About

Me, pixelated.

I am a product designer — digital and physical — with a passion for the intersection between those two worlds.

I want to make complex systems understandable and elevate the experience through simple and playful interactions. For example, I am designing and building a hardware prototyping software tool.1

Through speculative design, I want to explore what the future might hold and how we work with it.

Currently, I am working on bridging the gap between doctors and patients at Nelly.

Before that, I worked as a designer for IDEO. I also worked as a research assistant for Dunne & Raby.

I did my masters in Design & Technology at Parsons in New York City, and my bachelors in industrial design at HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd, where I am also currently teaching.

  1. It is called blokdots and started as my bachelor thesis in 2017.

Short Vita
  • 2024/07today
    Nelly
    Head of Design
    2026/01
    Senior Product Designer
    2024/07
    Berlin, DE
  • 2017/07today
    blokdots
    Co-Founder
  • 2020/082022/05
    Parsons, The New School
    MFA Design & Technology
    New York City, US
  • 2018/092020/08
    IDEO
    Interaction Designer
    Munich, DE
  • 2013/102017/07
    HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd
    BA Industrial Design
    Schwäbisch Gmünd, DE
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Projects

A selection of my projects. Sorted by date. [Total: 50]



Nelly UI

2025/12 → ongoingclient

CH.A.R.M

2025/06personal

Patient Intake

2025/05client

Customer Heartbeat

2024/06client

Flight OS

2024/05client

onaer

2024/04client

Schach

2023/12personal

Performance Dashboard Tools

2023/12client

blokdots 2.0

2023/10 → ongoingpersonal

Fate Of Catan

2023/04personal

New York City Walks

2023/02personal

INT-91 — An Alien Life Form

2022/05university

Featureless

2021/12university

Quantum Tetris

2021/10university

Plush Potentiometer

2021/09university

How is digital data stored on DNA?

2021/08university

Lamello Choreography Generator

2021/07personal

Six Sides

2021/05university

My Walk To Get Currywurst

2021/05university

Kaboom

2021/01personal

FlipDot Communicator

2020/12university

Agenda

2020/12personal

Gestaltung, Problemlösung, Strategie

2020/11personal

The Legend of Lamp

2020/10university

The Device

2020/07client

LittleBigPrinter

2020/04personal

blokdots Website

2020/03 → ongoingpersonal

Oracle BnB

2020/02client

Beyond The Pixel

2019/10client

Arcade

2019/05client

Mc Fly

2019/01client

blokdots

2018/12 → ongoingpersonal

Spark

2018/11client

Liebe Daten

2018/06personal

I ♥ Devs

2018/06client

OpenDataCam

2018/04client

Machine Classification

2018/04client

blokdots (BA Thesis)

2017/07university

blokdots Documentation (BA Thesis)

2017/07university

London Underground

2017/02university

medoo

2017/02university

VÄVA

2016/05university

GTS iMapla 3

2015/10university

Hamburg Icons

2015/10personal

pex

2015/03university

HTML & CSS Tutorial

2015/03personal

Syringe and Large Volume Pump

2015/02university

Cube

2014/07university

Yellow

2014/07university

cajongo

2014/02university

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Vita

achievements
  • 2021/12
    Certified Quantum Practitioner
    IBM
  • 2021/02
    The Legend Of Zelda: Majora's Mask — 100%
awards
  • 2021/10
    IBM: Most Creative use of Quantum Computing in Visual Arts
    Project: Quantum Tetris
  • 2019/06
    Core77 Design Awards: Student Winner Tools/Work
    Project: blokdots
  • 2017/06
    aed neuland: Nomination
    Project: VÄVA
  • 2016/06
    3dpc: Nomination
    Project: pex
education
engagement
exhibitions
professional
  • 2024/07today
    Nelly
    Head of Design
    2026/01
    Senior Product Designer
    2024/07
    Berlin, DE
  • 2017/07today
    blokdots
    Co-Founder
  • 2023/082024/06
    FLUID
    Senior Interaction Designer
    Munich, DE
  • 2022/072023/07
    Freelance
    Clients I've worked for: Alight, Stadt Ravensburg, STIHL, IDEO
  • 2021/102022/05
    Designed Realities Lab
    Graduate Research Assistant
    New York City, US
  • 2018/092020/08
    IDEO
    Interaction Designer
    Munich, DE
  • 2018/062018/07
    Digital Product School
    Interaction Design Coach
    Munich, DE
  • 2018/052018/06
    IDEO
    Interaction Design Contractor
    Munich, DE
  • 2017/082018/04
    Interaktionswerk
    Interaction Design Contractor
    Munich, DE
  • 2015/082015/12
    design for human nature
    Industrial Design Intern
    Hamburg, DE
  • 2013/012013/03
    TULP
    Industrial Design Intern
    Munich, DE
  • 2012/102012/11
    designgruppe
    Industrial Design Intern
    Munich, DE
  • 2012/092012/10
    byte-box
    Interaction Design Intern
    Munich, DE
talks
teaching