Experience

SIGNAL IDUNA Gruppe

• Germany
• Insurance
• 700 & Above Employee

• User Experience Researcher

  • Feb 2021 - May 2021

  Hamburg



Digitas Pixelpark

• Germany
• Marketing Services
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Senior Concept Developer

  • Jul 2019 - Nov 2019

  Hamburg Area, Germany



HID Human Interface Design GmbH

• User Experience Research & Design l Design Anthropology

  • Oct 2010 - Sep 2018

  Hamburg Area, Germany Introduced and established a User Driven Innovation practice in terms of participatory, team-lead organizational change - transparency and knowledge sharing through doing and getting done in a multidisciplinary (digital) product development context. Design work with a focus on concept: - Visionary User Experience concepts - Interaction design concepts for single embedded interfaces and interfaces of product families - Responsive design concepts across a variety of screen… Show more Introduced and established a User Driven Innovation practice in terms of participatory, team-lead organizational change - transparency and knowledge sharing through doing and getting done in a multidisciplinary (digital) product development context. Design work with a focus on concept: - Visionary User Experience concepts - Interaction design concepts for single embedded interfaces and interfaces of product families - Responsive design concepts across a variety of screen sizes Sense-Making, Co-Ideation and Co-Design with industrial partners and users: - Promote, plan and negotiate iterative and user-centric design projects - Prepare and facilitate multidisciplinary workshops - Provide visionary User Experience impulses in innovation projects - Carry out and analyze ethnographic interviews, User Experience research & Usability Tests - Further develop methods for user involvement and Co-Design Customers come from a range of fields, e.g. medical devices, white-ware, laboratory software, home automation. (former title: Usability Engineering and Design Anthropology) Show less



Mads Clausen Institute for Product Innovation, University of Southern Denmark

• PhD Student

  • Sep 2006 - Sep 2010

  Approach and methods in user-centred design projects: - Conduct variations of fieldwork, e.g. ethnographic interviews, development and usage of facilitating material, probes for documentation - Prepare and facilitate multidisciplinary workshops - Sense-Making, Co-Ideation, Co-Design Presentation formats for user insights: - User portraits - Video (logs, clips, cards, games) - Insights maps Academic and industrial partners were five Danish food manufacturers… Show more Approach and methods in user-centred design projects: - Conduct variations of fieldwork, e.g. ethnographic interviews, development and usage of facilitating material, probes for documentation - Prepare and facilitate multidisciplinary workshops - Sense-Making, Co-Ideation, Co-Design Presentation formats for user insights: - User portraits - Video (logs, clips, cards, games) - Insights maps Academic and industrial partners were five Danish food manufacturers, IT partners, a Danish innovation consultancy, the design department of a kitchen white-ware manufacturer and the Centre for Affective Design Research at Massey University in New Zealand.

• Course Coordinator of IT Product Design, MSc.

  • Sep 2004 - Sep 2006

  - Marketing and applicant interviewing - Conception of Master's program, organization of company collaboration - Tutoring and teaching - Research assistance



AFFECT, Centre for Affective Design Research, Massey University

• International guest researcher

  • Sep 2008 - Dec 2008

  Wellington, New Zealand - Field studies in Kiwi kitchens - Sense-Making workshop with multidisciplinary development team from industry to make insights from in-home interview tangible Collaboration was part of AFFECT's major project, Industrial Competitiveness Through Design for Desirability, and was carried out with an internationally successful white-ware manufacturer.



Philips

• Netherlands
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Internship & collaboration for thesis project

  • Oct 2003 - Oct 2003

  Eindhoven Area, Netherlands - Multidisciplinary Sense-Making, Co-Ideation and concept evaluation workshops - Insights to development processes and Philips HomeLab (http://www.research.philips.com/focused/experiencelab.html)



Mads Clausen Institute for Product Innovation, University of Southern Denmark

• Research Assistant

  • Mar 2003 - Aug 2003

  - Organization, execution and documentation of international research Summer School on Tangible Interaction - Illustration of method cards, "Activity Cards", developed in cooperation with Danfoss - Coordination and planning of IT Product Design Masters program, e.g. arranging company collaboration



Mediawërks

• Intern

  • Aug 2001 - Oct 2001

  Winona, Minnesota, U.S.A - Insights to branding, advertising productions and marketing - Design and production of promotional video: conception, scripting, editing, technical assistance