Flirting with art and design

Cover is the student association for Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science at the University of Groningen. I was president of the board from 2006-2007. During that year I designed some posters and in-house styling guidelines, among a lot of other things.

KGP (for Kei Groep Programma) is a piece of software that was developed in collaboration with a Wilco Wijbrandi. The system is designed to perform administrative functions (analytics, reporting) for the almost 4000 annual freshmen students that attend the university introductory week (KEI-week). A notable feature was assigning the participants to groups of 10-20 people based on their (and the executive boards) preferences using simulated annealing. The front-end development and UI/UX was my primary responsibility. The program went through several iterations during its 4 years of use (including usage by the Universtiy of Maastricht), after which we went on to do other things.

During the summer of 2009 I was part of IBM’s top-talent Extreme Blue internship. Together with 5 international business and technical students we were engaged in “clear sky” thinking for a customer. Our client was the Rotterdam Climate Initiative, which wanted a novel way to promote their activities. We conceptualized and prototyped a massive multi-player casual game (think FarmVille–meets Sim City–meets serious gaming) to raise awareness to climate change. Check out The whole game design flyer (PDF).

In 2011 I was part of a start-up called Factlink, which provides annotations to the World Wide Web. During my time there I did UI/UX studies and front-end development. Some of my very initial design proposals (PDF). Presentation about UX principles. You can also check-out Jan Paul's excellent write-up for other work when I was there!