Highlights
Along the Way

UI/UX Design: For the Chores Nobody Sees

App design, Claude Code, built with a front end engineer

Nisse is named after the Scandinavian house spirit that quietly keeps a home in order. That angle is the whole project: a home management app for couples that makes invisible work visible without turning it into a scoreboard. I found the idea, did the research, and set the aesthetic. A front end engineer and I are making it real, and it is still very much in progress. AI is what keeps me close to the thing. I get to stay in the material instead of imagining it. I can build a direction the same evening I think of it and judge it on a real screen.

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Defense Day

PhD, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e)

My PhD is about what goes missing when design moves online: not the deadlines, but the closeness. The shared materials, the shoulder to shoulder rhythm, the quiet ease of exploring an idea side by side. I designed, illustrated and wrote the book myself, standing on work already tested across several academic venues. Defense day was a room of professors, an afternoon of good pressure, and a fitting way to close the chapter.

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Longitudinal Observation

61 participants · 5 months · mixed-method

This was the most complex study I have run, and the longest. Five months, 16 design teams, 61 participants, followed through their whole process from start to finish, with a mixed method design built to hold all of it together. The payoff came twice. Participants told me they enjoyed it and came away having learned something, and the analysis became Beyond Divergence, a paper in She Ji, a Q1 journal, in 2025.

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Two Talks at INTERACT

IFIP INTERACT, Brazil · two papers

I went to Brazil with two papers and two presentations to give. The first offered design knowledge I had tested with experienced practitioners, and the room turned it into a real conversation about how to help designers who work apart. The second turned the lens on me: a reflection on my own methods, and what phenomenology had quietly been teaching me all along. I like doing both, building something and then asking how I built it.

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Teaching Outcome

Multiple courses of design methods · TU/e

I have coached students across several courses now, and I keep coming back to it. Every designer grows a different way, and I trust that. My job is not to hand them my path but to help them find their own, the design mindset and the design skills both, because a designer needs the two together. Here is one time I put a real research question in their hands and watched them run with it.

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Sehr Gut, in German

Master, to where industrial design originally comes from

I completed my master's in Strategic Design at Hochschule für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Gmünd in Germany (2016–2018). The programme spanned strategic and service design, design thinking and visual storytelling, and I graduated with 'sehr gut' — the highest grade. Fun fact: the whole class was taught in German.

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Music on Record

From childhood to adult · Baidi Accordion Orchestra

Outside academia, I've played the accordion since childhood. As vice leader of the Baidi Accordion Orchestra, I helped lead rehearsals and coordinate the ensemble, and took part in the professional recording of two CDs — West Side Story and Emotion and Fantasize.

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