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About Me

Design is a form of edu­ca­tion that has the poten­tial to shape a soci­ety. To max­i­mize its influ­ence, it should be easy to prop­a­gate. For me, this can involve not only con­ven­tion­al mass pro­duc­tion but also pro­duc­tions in which the user is involved. Grow­ing up in a low-​income house­hold, I strive to design effi­cient­ly, yet I also have a fas­ci­na­tion for high-​end prod­ucts and see their neces­si­ty for human­i­ty as equal­ly impor­tant, as long as it is not about luxury.

How­ev­er, when I look around my envi­ron­ment, I see many prod­ucts that car­ry a poten­tial rarely real­ized. With many things I own, I can hard­ly enjoy them beyond their func­tion­al­i­ty. While using them, the thought lingers in my mind that I want to replace the prod­uct one day with one whose design endures — even if the func­tion has been sur­passed many times in the future.

In doing so, I want to devel­op new per­spec­tives, even for objects that have a tra­di­tion­al and there­fore rarely ques­tioned form.

I see the soci­etal need for con­tem­po­rary design more than ever today, as a fun­da­men­tal­ly dif­fer­ent approach to resources is nec­es­sary. This should not be accom­pa­nied by a sac­ri­fice of func­tion­al­i­ty but can ide­al­ly even enhance the over­all qual­i­ty of the prod­uct. Change is only pos­si­ble here if objects are fun­da­men­tal­ly rethought.

I am inher­ent­ly curi­ous about how the world works, which is why I began a physics degree. How­ev­er, I dis­con­tin­ued it because, con­trary to my expec­ta­tions, it was pure­ly repro­duc­tive. Inno­va­tion and cre­ativ­i­ty are essen­tial to me. That's why I have an admi­ra­tion for pio­neers, regard­less of their field of work.

In my for­ma­tive years I used to pro­gram a lot for fun and engaged in game design. Before con­sid­er­ing physics, I had con­tem­plat­ed study­ing com­put­er sci­ence. How­ev­er, dur­ing my reori­en­ta­tion, I chose to do prod­uct design out of my fas­ci­na­tion for tech­nol­o­gy and its real world impact. Nonethe­less my knowl­edge in game design has proven to be ben­e­fi­cial in craft­ing User Experiences.

Gen­er­al­ly, I have a very struc­tured dai­ly rou­tine because it helps me focus on impor­tant deci­sions. But I am spon­ta­neous enough to have a speed in my process­es to ele­vate dynam­ic teams.

In my free time, I enjoy train­ing. Health and fit­ness are impor­tant to me. Addi­tion­al­ly, I prac­tice inline freestyle slalom, a sport based on chal­leng­ing tricks and styl­ish exe­cu­tion. Depend­ing on the fig­ure, bal­ance, flex­i­bil­i­ty, agili­ty, and strength are essen­tial. Over the course of more than 12 years, I have won many com­pe­ti­tions at the nation­al level.

I also enjoy play­ing chess but more on a casu­al lev­el. Oth­er­wise, I have the aspi­ra­tion to excel in every­thing I do.