💎 Design work

Here you can find some of my recent design work. Most of these designs have been part of a research project. My research projects can be found on a separate page.

Analytics dashboard redesign
The analytics of CM.com’s Customer Data Platform were outdated and considered lacking after competitor analysis. I was leading the UX for the project from need-finding to evaluation. Opportunity The goal was to make the Customer Data Platform product more competitive. Read more.
Mobile campaign creator
CM.com's web app to send bulk mobile messages on any messaging platform was updated to allow for rich media messages. Read more.
Loomlight
An interactive light artwork by Tita Ex, realized by Interactive Matter and commissioned by the municipality of Eindhoven. Read more.
Onhandig (Inconvenient)
Art installations to reduce the increasingly common social loneliness caused by COVID-19 through small (un)planned encounters in public spaces. Read more.
OpenAIS: Lighting control applications
Two control applications for an interactive office lighting system: a smartphone app for local lighting control anywhere in the office, and tablets with lighting control dedicated to the meeting rooms. Read more.
Lighting Interfaces for Open-plan Offices
Three user interfaces for lighting control in a shared office: The Floorplan (a smartphone application), Pointer (a tangible-gestural interface on every table), and Canvas (a tangible interface central in the space). Read more.
OpenAIS @ GLOW 2017
For the GLOW light festival in 2017, I designed and realised a light show with the OpenAIS pilot installation in the Witte Dame. The goal for the project was to showcase the speed, accuracy and synchronicity of the IoT lighting Read more.
Living lab: Interactive office lighting system
During my PhD I needed a test-bed office to conduct my research about user-interfaces for lighting control. I repurposed the Enlight system to an interactive smart office lighting system. Opportunity Refitting an existing student workspace with an interactive lighting system Read more.
Songtickets: Music as a Gift
This project explored how the gift-giving experience of digital media can be enhanced with physical objects. The project resulted in Songtickets, a new way of sharing music as a gift by passing on a physical object, creating a music community Read more.
Prospera: an energy awareness game
We all know the reasons why we should save energy: it’s better for the environment, it’s better for our energy bills… but in our daily lives it appears to be very difficult to stay conscious of our energy usage. Prospera Read more.
PIM: a modular picnic set
PIM is a modular picnic set. Each module is designed to contribute one specific element of a picnic (cloth, table, food, music). Everyone can bring that one element of a picnic that they value most. Together this creates a picnic Read more.
3D Bass
The 3D bass is a fretless active bass guitar that is built using only Fablab methods. Read more.
WiGi: a wireless gestural instrument
During my internship at STEIM, Amsterdam in 2011, I worked on a new wireless gesture instrument for the artist and composer Richard Scott. The WiGi, or Wireless Gestural Instrument, is a hybrid of the classic Buchla Lightning and custom electronics Read more.
Con.tact: music improvisation through touch
The tactile modality is key for mastering and playing music instruments. But physical contact is one of the biggest taboos in western society. Con.tact is a reaction to this. It is a playful improvisation tool that can be played through Read more.
Tessella: a Kinetic Electric Heater
Tessella is an electric, kinetic heater which communicates its heating activity unobtrusively through dynamic form. Using shape memory alloys, which change form when heat is applied, it folds and defolds. Next to adaptive behaviour, Tessella allows you to control the Read more.

Webdesign

Here are some of my webdesign projects.

nfba.nl
A web design project for the dutch family archives: a database containing over 30.000 records of genealogical information. Read more.
Hellemondkapje.nl
Webdesign project for stofgenoeg.nl: a one-page website to feature custom made face masks. Read more.
Stofgenoeg.nl
Corry crafts unique, hand-made presents. She mainly uses Vlisco fabric, setting her apart from many other crafts stores. She wanted a professional web store that is easy to manage. The project included developing a new graphic style and HTML/CSS, JS, Read more.
Eindjeverder.nl
Me and my girlfriend set out to travel the world in September 2019. I developed a website to keep our family and friends up to date with our travel adventures. The project included developing a new graphic style and HTML/CSS Read more.
Hausamade.nl
The client for this project owns a recreational holiday house in Austria. They wanted a simple website to promote their property and to increase visibility online. Read more.
Bagonwheels.nl
The website of my band Bag on Wheels needed an update. The allround-cover band wanted a website to showcase the ability to make a party out of any event with the best music. Read more.