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California, United States

San Francisco Bay Area

Renowned California College of the Arts (CCA) is one of the leading design schools in the United States. I am teaching Systems, Prototyping, Design Strategy, and Experience Design in CCA's pioneering Interaction Design (BFA/MDES) and Design Strategy (MBA) programs at the graduate and undergraduate levels, incl. the Experience Studio, a studio-based class.

San Francisco Bay Area

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

The Royal Danish Academy is the leading academy in Scandinavia in the fields of architecture, design, and conservation. Among the schools' alumni are esteemed designers, such as Arne Jacobsen (who studied at the School of Architecture), Hans Wegner (who studied at the School of Design), and Børge Mogensen (who attended both schools).

San Francisco Bay Area

SYSTEMIC is my design-centric management consulting practice – working with renowned organizations such as Berggruen Institute, General Electric, Goethe Institute, Google, and Visa.

San Francisco Bay Area

Spotify transformed music listening forever when it launched in 2008. Discover, manage and share over 100 million tracks and over 5 million podcasts titles, for free, or upgrade to Spotify Premium to access exclusive features for music including improved sound quality and an on-demand, offline, and ad-free music listening experience. Today, Spotify is the.

Los Angeles, California

The Berggruen Institute was established in 2010 to develop foundational ideas about how to reshape political and social institutions in the face of the great transformations humanity is facing. From capitalism, to democracy, to the global order, our institutions are faltering. The very meaning of the human is fragmenting. The Institute works across.

San Francisco Bay Area

A division of PCH, Highway1 is widely viewed as one of the premier hardware accelerators in the world. I mentor hardware startups on using human-centered Experience Design to build integrated product-service ecosystems.

San Francisco Bay Area

Futuredraft is an experience design consultancy that solves complex problems using co-creation throughout the design process. The company's depth and experience allow it to leap into ambiguous spaces, connect knowledge to action, and quickly generate results. Bringing Silicon Valley design innovation to projects ranging from start-up acceleration to.

San Francisco Bay Area

As a member of the global executive team, I oversaw integrating d.light's brand, product, and service design into a unified brand experience – including human-centered research, design, and marketing practices. I am very proud and humbled by the opportunity d.light gave me to help co-create and launch the world's most affordable high-quality solar light in.

San Francisco Bay Area

I helped the Design & Experience Group leadership (now GE Digital) appropriating design systems, strategy and training programs to drive experience design at scale and enable faster, more adaptive new product conceptions.

Berlin, Germany

I co-founded De:Bug – an independent print- and online- magazine focusing on the cutting edge of everything considered electronic culture – covering music, art, technology and business topics alike. Published monthly the print magazine is available at German, Austrian, Swiss and selected international newsstands. Being on the market since 1997 the magazine.

Berlin, Germany

MetaDesign is Germanys no.1 branding agency (ranging among europes top10 branding agencies). MetaDesign is part of the LBI Group. I was responsible for the strategic and operational leadership of their interactive branding department – a 15+ team comprised of visual- and interaction-designers, technologists, strategists and program managers. Clients.

San Francisco Bay Area

Method is an international renowned experience design firm with offices based in San Francisco, New York and London. Their clients are best described as owners of progressive, era-defining brands, and include Google, Comcast, Nordstrom, Sony, Samsung, Nokia, Microsoft, Time Warner, Intel, and BBC. Collaboratively, Method helps them create brands, products.

Berlin, Germany

At the time MetaDesign was Germany’s leading corporate design firm. I co-built & led their initial digital design and strategy group leading a team of interaction designers, business strategists and creative technologists. During my tenure I helped to grow a 4 people team into a 40 people department, accounting for two thirds of the firm’s annual revenue.