Leander Thomas Email & Phone Number

Leuven & Hasselt

At Cegeka, I bring a user-centered design perspective to a wide range of projects, significantly enhancing their value and usability. My role encompasses the entire design process, from initial research to final usability testing, ensuring a seamless and engaging user experience.Responsibilities: conducting user research, collaborative ideation, prototyping, UI design, usability testing. Throughout my tenure, I had the privilege of working with esteemed clients such as Randstad, Kind & Gezin, KBC, and Recytyre, delivering solutions that met their specific needs. My time at Cegeka honed my skills in balancing aesthetic appeal with functional efficiency, always keeping the user at the heart of the design process.

Warehouse and purchase

Genk, Belgium

Business photography and videography for Wellnesskliniek Genk.

Variety of personal projects involving photography, film and content managment

Hasselt

Internship Digital Communication for the communication and public relations department of Z33.During 4 months I've been working on developing and executing parts of the online communication plan for the exhibitions SuperBodies, Mind the System Find the Gap (Z33's biggest exhibition ever) and Art in Public Space Borgloon. Daily content management, online and offline advertising and experimenting with photography and new technologies to support public activities are some of the activities I've performed.Z33 is a house for contemporary art: a unique laboratory and a meeting place for experimentation and innovation. Since 2002, Z33 has been organising projects and exhibitions that encourage visitors to see everyday things in a new way.

Finland, Tampere

During my Erasmus in Tampere, Finland I participated in a project with Nokia Finland in the context of Demola: an international organization that facilitates co-creation projects between university students and companies, either locally or internationally.As interaction designer and project manager I worked together with 7 other students to research, discover and develop valuable, alternative ways of exploring and browsing through music in the context of Nokia's music department. After an interesting process the outcome we presented was a fabulous, working desktop and mobile prototype with interesting values. This project was also a great opportunity to experience professional pitching and a first meeting with agile devolpment .

Collaboration project with Web-Lab, webdesign agency.Improving corporate identity and designing the user interface for Rimeco, Creative Environmental Solutions.

Academic Bachelor, Audiovisual Arts - Communication & Media Design, Magna Cum Laude

Communication & Media Design offers a crossdisciplinary mediamix. As a C-MD'er we've been trained to find connections between different.

Kmo-Management

Bachelor, Creative Design, Virtual Web Organization

Courses of 7 weeks including examination and live case: - Virtual Web Organization - Creative Design

Bachelor, Media, Arts

Erasmus in Finland Tampere from 10.08.2011 till 21.12.2011. Courses: - Project Management - User Experience Design - Interactive Media.

Aso, Mathematics, Sciences, Magna Cum Laude

Aso, Modern Sciences