As a designer, I am curious, hands-on, and interaction-driven. With a background in Industrial Product Design, I enjoy the challenge of integrating technology, form, and user experience into one coherent product. I work best in an iterative process of exploring concepts, prototyping them, and evaluating them with the user to refine interaction quality.

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Therefore, my design approach is user-centred. At the start of a project, I invest in understanding the problem space by researching user needs, routines, and the context of use, and I translate these insights into clear design opportunities. I then iterate quickly through mock-ups and functional prototypes to test assumptions early. Prototypes help users respond to something concrete and allow me to gather meaningful feedback. To evaluate and refine my designs, I combine qualitative methods (e.g., observations, interviews, think-aloud) with quantitative signals where relevant (e.g., short questionnaires, preference comparisons), and I use these results to steer the next iteration.

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The field I want to contribute to is interaction design, with a specific interest in whether interactions are understandable and inviting for a user, for example, through clear affordances, legibility, and feedback. If users cannot interpret what a product is doing or why it responds in a certain way, the experience breaks down. I believe a product's value lies not only in its technology or appearance, but in the quality of the interaction and experience it offers (Lenz et al., 2013). This is why I am particularly interested in embodied and tangible interaction: how movement, proximity, touch, and physical configuration can guide interaction in a more intuitive way.

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Next, I am interested in the way light can serve more than just illuminating. I explore how subtle modalities such as light can become part of communication, guiding or signalling without relying on screens as the primary interface.

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My main expertise development goal is to bridge Technology & Realization and User & Society by creating technical prototypes that respond appropriately to people's routines, expectations, and concerns. These areas constantly inform each other: a technical decision is only meaningful when it is grounded in what users actually experience. Creativity & Aesthetics supports this by shaping how the interaction is perceived.

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I can work independently and take responsibility for planning and progress, but I prefer collaborating in a motivated team because it helps me challenge assumptions and raise the quality of ideas. In teams, I often take a coordinating role: I support others, structure discussions, and keep sight of the overall direction. My strengths are listening carefully, thinking critically, and maintaining a "helicopter view" to identify priorities, risks, and next steps.

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Underlying these interests is a set of values: inclusivity, user autonomy, and designing for people the standard product tends to pass by. These values are what carry me from how I design into what I ultimately want design to achieve.