Fate Of Catan
personalDescription
We like to play the board game "Catan" but it often gets very unbalanced, frustrating, or boring after a while. So Felix came up with the idea to create a digital layer to expand the game with meaningful events that shake up the game. "Fate of Catan" is free-to-play expansion with addtional rules and events to make this game even more versatile.
INT-91 — Am Alien Life Form
schoolDescription
The internet constantly surrounds us. It has become such a given that we do not even appreciate the wonder this technology enables us to anymore. At the same time, the internet is constantly changing. The internet from 20 years ago is vastly different from today and very likely that this will remain true for the following years. Like a life form, the internet is evolving, adapting to its environment.
This is a thought experiment in which the internet is represented as an alien life form. The artifact represents the interaction that the internet has with us, humans. It is purposefully kept vague and does not reveal the underlying inspiration to leave the viewer puzzled, only hinting at its origin. The project aspires that eventually, the true meaning is realized, and this technology gets appreciated a little bit more again.
2022/05
Thesis Studio and Who Comes After the Human?
Parsons, The New School
Prof. Anthony DunneBarbara MorrisClarinda Mac LowProf. Dominic PettmanProf. Fiona RabyJamie KeilesProf. John Sharp
Featureless
schoolDescription
Featureless is an alternative world where abstract, monochromatic figures, explore their environment through movement while being tracked by a camera capturing a distant arbitrary perspective.Through this objective vantage point, the fourth wall diminishes and a theatre-in-the-round experience emerges.
My Role
I have been a model for five of the ten movements. I then was responsible for combining the captures in Unity and setting up the scene.
2021/12 – 6 weeks
Motion Capture
Parsons, The New School
Gretchen SteinbrunnerWesley ChauZainab Aliyu
Quantum Tetris
schoolDescription
This project visualizes quantum computing. Using the relatively simple example of TETRIS, we want to display the beauty of ’noise‘ that currently still remains in quantum computing.
Each tetronimoe is generated using a quantum computer. The circuit is set up to only generate the seven classic shapes, however, due to noise, the quantum computer generates pieces that should not exist.
Due to the nature of quantum computing, the order of the pieces is truly random.
My Role
I was mostly responsible for concepting the logic behind the mental model, as well as developing the quantum circuit generating the tetronimoes. I then built and developed the hardware representation of the project
2021/10 – 2 weeks
- 🏆 Most Creative use of Quantum Computing in Visual Arts
Quantum Design Jam
Parsons, The New School
for IBM
Billy HoEmilio LariSalil ParekhWeijing Xiao
GitHub Repository ↱Plush Potentiometer
schoolDescription
This little plush toy is an approachable way into physical computing. While being a plushy companion to play with, it also functions as a usable physical component that works just like a regular potentiometer.
How is digital data stored on DNA?
schoolDescription
An interactive website article that explains how data is encoded into DNA. It starts with the question "what is code?" and ends up in compiling text into a hypothetical DNA sequence.
Lamello Choreography Generator
personalDescription
A Munich artist needed help to control a slatted curtain. The curtain shows artwork and should open and close automatically. As he, eventually, needs to change the choreographies, depending on the exhibtion or venue, I created this small tool, that generates ready-to-paste Arduino code, so that he can easily adapt the setup.
Six Sides
schoolDescription
An art project that thinks about space. Especially, in times of working at home during the pandemic.
A collection of multiple sketches explores different thought experiments of my room.
2021/05 – 16 weeks
UTransLab Designed Realities
Parsons, The New School
Prof. Anthony DunneProf. Fiona Raby
My Walk To Get Currywurst
schoolDescription
A critical digital forensics article about the data that our phones collect.
2021/05 – 5 weeks
Dark Data
Parsons, The New School
Prof. David CarrollProf. Melanie Crean
Kaboom
personalDescription
My friends and I play this card game very often, yet we never found preexisitng rules to it. The pandemic had it, that we were not able to play this game anymore, so I created an online playable version of the game.
2021/01 – 2 weeks
FlipDot Communicator
schoolDescription
The FlipDotCommunicator is a device for distant socializing. In these times of high paced, direct digital communication, it is a reminder of the physical and the momentariness. It is a tool to embrace non-explicit communication.
Agenda
personalDescription
Nicki and I realized in our shared work at IDEO, how meetings often do not achieve the intended goal, as time frames are not adhered to. With a simple time keeping tool, that does not allow for editing after the timer has started, we tried to tackle this issue.
Hans provided the unique sound design.
My Role
I developed this little tool.
Gestaltung, Problemlösung, Strategie
personalDescription
What does it mean to be a designer at a consultancy? How can we influence the future? What do we have to consider when designing for strategy? In this talk, we summarized our learnings and expierence from working at IDEO and how it shaped our understanding of the design profession.
The Legend of Lamp
schoolDescription
A small autobiographical bitmap game from the perspective of my lamp
The Device
confidentialclientDescription
In this project we designed the interface of a device.
My Role
I was mostly responsible for prototyping the complete user experience. This involved concepting, designing, and building the prototyping setup. It entailed a physical setup, roughly the size of a king bed, and needed to operate three screens and a variety of physical interfaces.
The prototype was then tested with multiple particicpants at two different countries simultaneously. This required to coordinate the setup and testing to work at a different environment and forced me to build everything stable, versatile, and understandable to be replicated easily.
Next to prototyping the experience, I particiapted in conducting research interviews, designing assets and UI screens, and developing interaction patterns.
2020/07 – 16 weeks
for ███ with IDEO
Karen HentschelNicki SchäferReuben DsilvaSven Stumm
LittleBigPrinter
personalDescription
The fax machine for millennials: Reminding us of the personality and uniqueness of a text message. Once sent, the sender cannot access the message anymore, only the printed text remains.
blokdots Website
personalDescription
blokdots needs a representable window to the public, displaying its features and values. The website should also fit in the brand identity. Like with the app, we focus on a high level of development and design craft.
My Role
I am the main developer and designer of the website.
Oracle BnB
confidentialclientDescription
Predicitve maintenance is an important topic in cost prevention. For this project, we focused on one specific aspect of prediciting faulty parts of the product.
My Role
Together with expert engineers from the client side, we worked as a highly agile team. Next to setting up our client team partner with these working methods, I was responsible for designing the application, discovering pain-points in the current information structure, and conducting research and testing interviews with customers.
At the end of our project, we provided an actionable road map for our client.
2020/02 – 12 weeks
for ███ with IDEO
Arunima KapoorJess FreanerJure MartinecRoss Weijer
Beyond The Pixel
confidentialclientDescription
Our client asked from us to design their whole digital experience. This includes their website and applications, but also in-store experiences and system architecture.
In our global research with customers, employees, and the market, we discovered the core pain points, and provided and tested concepts along with a clear actionable roadmap.
My Role
I researched with Sven in New York City and Shanghai. This involved conducting interviews with customers, but also real-time prototyping in the retail stores. In the conceptual phase, I was responsible for designing touchpoints as well as defining the user journey and making it tangible. I also developed the roadmap for the upcoming five years.
Arcade
confidentialclientDescription
This has been a follow up project on the the Mc Fly project, going one level further into understanding the European market structure.
My Role
In this project, I was responsbile for designing and testing the HMI, website, and some interior elements. In this short amount of time, I created a life size protoype, with 16 experiencable touch points that we tested.
I hope, that still today, the client’s C-level is using my analogy of cupcakes to explain their future strategy.
2019/05 – 6 weeks
for ███ with IDEO
Florian KösslerNicki SchäferSimone FahrenhorstTrent Huon
Mc Fly
confidentialclientDescription
We developed the future—upcoming 5 to 10 years—European strategy for personal vehicles for our client. This involved to understand the future customers’ needs and discovering the disreable and viable product offering.
We worked in a mixed team of IDEOers and client partners.
My Role
Together with the team, I developed concepts and tested them with potential customers. In the later project, I was responsible for designing one section of the potential offering.
2019/01 – 6 weeks
for ███ with IDEO
Alen FaljicFlorian KösslerNicki SchäferTrent Huon
Spark
confidentialclientDescription
In this sprint, we discovered potential product offerings for the client’s future customers.
My Role
I was responsible for developing and building prototypes and conducting research.
I ♥ Devs
confidentialclientDescription
We were sent out to discover painpoints for developers of hardware components. We redesigned every touchpoint in the user journey. From the first interaction with the products, over the setup process, up to the detailed documentation and post-purchase customer service.
My Role
I was hired as a contractor for this project, just after the research phase. I was responsible for designing the touchpoints to enable a seamless developer/customer journey.
2018/06 – 2 weeks
for ███ with IDEO
Akshan IshMarcus PaeschkeSamer NakfourTrent Huon
Liebe Daten
personalDescription
Niko and I were both fascinated by the book "Dear Data" by Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec and decided to take the distance between us as an opportunity to collect, draw, and send data to each other as well.
Machine Classification
confidentialclientDescription
We designed a training software to detect faulty objects from a production belt. In the software the user should be able to annotate, classify, train, and test their modell.
My Role
I was responsible for designing the GUI and developing a high fidelity prototpye of the application. I also conducted UX testings with future users to learn in which parts the UI needed improvement.
OpenDataCam
clientDescription
The OpenDataCam is an open-source vehicle counting camera. Using the YOLO library and an NVIDIA Jetson TX2 GPU Board, it is a small and cost effective device to collect traffic data.
The versatile d.i.y. case allows for the camera to be used in diverse locations.
My Role
I designed the case for the d.i.y. camera. The case should be easiy to manufacture with household tools, while being cheap and weather proof.
blokdots
personalDescription
blokdots is a software to enable easy hardware prototpying. With understandable wizards and a user friendly interface, we want to enable everyone to overcome the hurdle of programming hardware.
We hope to take away the fear of phyiscal computing while enabling everyone to create better prototypes, and ultimately, better products.
My Role
I am one of the co-founders of blokdots, which started as my bachelor thesis. I am working on design, development, and genreally pushing the product forward.
blokdots [BA]
schoolDescription
blokdots is a tool—consiting of a hardware toolkit and a software—that allows easy hardware prototyping for everyone. With simple plug-and-play components using a regular phone jack, designers can create their hardware prototypes without soldering or a line of code.
2017/07 – 16 weeks
Bachelor Thesis
HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd
Prof. Benedikt GrossProf. Matthias Held
blokdots documentation
schoolDescription
Next to the thesis project, the HfG requires a documentation book. On 214 pages, the complete research, process, and outcome is displayed.
2017/07 – 16 weeks
Bachelor Thesis
HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd
Prof. Benedikt GrossProf. Matthias Held
London Underground
schoolDescription
A simple data visualization of the entries and exits of each underground station in London. Without text, the info had to be conveid.
2017/02 – 16 weeks
Programmiertes Entwerfen II
HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd
Prof. Hartmut BohnackerProf. Jens Döring
medoo
schoolDescription
medoo is a concept to simplify the communication between patient and doctor. Appointments, vaccination, and health-tracking is included for easy access for both parties.
My Role
We all participated in concepting and designing the project. My focus lied in prototyping the experience.
2017/02 – 16 weeks
Application Design
HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd
Janis Wasler CofalkaMax Mertens
VÄVA
schoolDescription
A bed that travels alongside you—collapsed as small as a suitcase, easily set up without tools, and still, it is a proper bed. Furniture makes our space to a home. Especially when moving a lot, it can be a piece of home, no matter where one is.
2016/05 – 16 weeks
- Nomination: aed Neuland
Bachelor Thesis
Lund University School of Industrial Design
Prof. Claus-Christian Eckhardt
GTS iMapla 3
schoolDescription
The company GTS needed a redesign for their magnet excavator controlling device (rectangular in images). The relatively simple interface had to support the excavator drivers, while needing to be robust and easy to understand. Our approach was a cost effective solution that included a simple signal and error display, while also subtly representing the brand’s logo.
Hamburg Icons
personalDescription
During my time in Hamburg, I cerated this set of icons, that represent to me the most important features of the city. This includes landmarks like the "Bunker," but also personal memories, like the "F*Burger."
2015/10
pex
schoolDescription
In a short one week project, we were set by Fraunhofer to explore the benefits of 3D print. From my expierence of the STROKE Art Fair, I created an exhibiton system from cardboard where 3D printed elements are used to hold the cardboard in place.
My Role
The project was eventually exhibited at the Fraunhofer IPA space. My exhibtion system was used to present the outcomes. This involved me in designing and setting up the exhibition.
2015/03 – 2 weeks
- Nomination: 3dpc
Labor Woche
HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd
for Fraunhofer IPA
HTML & CSS Tutorial
personalDescription
In 2016, I started to give HTML and CSS workshops. This website is my repository of lectures and materials which I still use today in workshops and constantly update.
Syringe and Large Volume Pump
schoolDescription
We re-designed a syringe and large volume pump. The very technical design included thinking about each aspect of the devices. Affordances, cleanability, production, components, and interface were all relevant to design a modern approach of the medical pumps.
My Role
I have been leading the project and have been involved in the technical specifications, and CAD and mechanical development.
2015/02 – 16 weeks
Technische Produktgestaltung
HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd
Christian Zimmermann
Carolin StraubDennis EnkeJanson JeceljKwangjin AnYlva Schmidt
Cube
schoolDescription
A three dimensional exploration of design principles.
Yellow
schoolDescription
"Yellow. Lightweight. Fuzzy." This object is representing these two adjectives of the word that we assoicated with the color ‘yellow.’
cajongo
schoolDescription
The cajongo is a cajon to go. Using the simple strap, it can be worn like a bag while comfortably wrapping around the user’s torso. This way, the player can play the cajon while walking, which normally is only playable in a static position.