Last week I left Rotterdam with a huge smile on my face: Thingscon was beyond what I expected. The conference on connected technology research and design with themes like empathy, sustainability and tangibility felt like a warm and welcoming bath. Here are some highlights and impressions of the 1.1 day long gathering. To preface: I…
“Running with scissors”, a perfect summary of innovation sometimes. You’re pushing the boundaries so hard it might break, people might get hurt. The fortunate thing is: you use the innovation mindset. The innovation mindset is mindful: You are aware you might break stuff, people might get hurt and you are also aware that you will…
I love industrial design! Specifically when people break conventions, create something unique and do it to perfection. teenage engineering is a company that has done this couple of times. They make synthesizers and other music and sound apparatus. Their break through was the OP1, a tiny aluminium milled synthesizer with DJ sensibilities. A product made to jam…
Yesterday I streamed money to podcasters WHILE I was listening to their podcast using the Breez app and relying on a huge revamp of the podcast infrastructure called Podcasting 2.0. It’s a very interesting way to listen to podcasts and pay for each second you listen to, or if you like, boost (extra money) those valuable moments in…
So for a long time now I try to offer our services via LinkedIn, but apparently their forms have never heard of ‘customer experience’, or ‘service design strategy’, or ‘experience innovation’ and ‘enterprise design’. That’s why I decided to work on a couple of articles 🙂 Because everything related to smart change is exploding, with Europe…
On February 14th 2019 Vera Rademaker started gathering people in our office for what we soon called ‘The Best Is Yet To Come’ (TBIYTC) to share and present what we are proud of in our coffee room/ cantina. Vera started this get-together because she felt some colleagues were missing out on the wonderful things we make:…
In Januari of this year I soft launched my company Dapperder in response of market opportunities I could not fulfil in my current job. ‘Dapperder’ can be translated to ‘more brave’. This is the sentiment I wish for people and organisations. To step into a brave new world, filled with opportunity. In short: Dapperder is…
In opdracht van Fonk en in naam van Astrid Poot heb ik een korte video productie gedaan voor het Zaans Museum. De videos zijn voor kinderen uit de buurt die een spannende opdracht krijgen om zelf iets te maken voor het museum! Het programma is overigens in zijn geheel verzonnen, gemaakt en geïnitieerd in samenwerking…
One of the activities we deploy for all our clients is Google Design Sprints. I have set up a little training program for people that want to get better as a facilitator or creative in such a sprint. This one we did because we liked the topic and the people. Of course I can’t say…
My dad is the greatest. A humble man, a man with a strong moral compass and a man with a history. Today I tried to catch some of his stories into my audio recorder. As you might or might not know, I have a huge history in producing media programs. From my version of the…
In August 2019 I led an expert review of the CX and UX of a customer data management system used by big health insurance operators. Within a couple of days we scanned, interviewed and mapped the information we needed to give a good preliminary advice. The wish of the client was to get quick, result…
In innovation there is one thing that’s a constant: working through all the limitations and missing connections of technology really limits your ability to test with people. Let’s say you want to produce a voice interface for a newspaper and specifically like to use a high end artificial voice that hasn’t been released yet on…
As spin off of our innovation practice I was the creative and strategic lead for a Dutch voice project proof of concept sprint for a big publishing house. In order to create proof for a go-to-market strategy of the application of voice interfaces in the Netherlands we create Proof of Concepts. Goal was to go…
As an almost full time coach for students in our company I always feel proud that another group of interns and graduates made it to their next step in life with a little help of our company. In this case we had quite a group of both working students, graduating students and walk-along-student in our…
To profile Cognizant as an intersting employer and graduating company I helped organise a part of the Digithon. It was a huge success with over 80% followup after the event. My contribution was a 20 minutes bootcamp that I organised with my two colleagues Daniëlle and Marcha (coincidentally also the former graduates that joined my…
For the digital department of Brunel we started in 2017 a huge undertaking: changing the way people apply for a job. Any job. World wide. I helped land the pitch and was the conceptual and creative lead for this time. Please note: this project is still going on, so until going live there are no…
Somewhere in March of 2019 Amer Grgic (CTO at Tevreden.nl and hosts the Bits vs Bytes Podcast) asked on LinkedIn who should be his next guest on the Bits vs Bytes podcast. Of course I suggested some people, and surprisingly I also got invited. Here’s the podcast we recorded about (as Amer phrased it) the…
We believe that presenting yourself on events can be more fun, thought provoking and interactive with the help of conversational interfaces. That’s why we build a voice driven survey that engages and guides your booth or event guests through interesting and always relevant topics. We find ourselves quite often on events organized by our clients,…
We believe that presenting yourself on events can be more fun, thought provoking and interactive with the help of conversational interfaces. That’s why we build a voice driven survey that engages and guides your booth or event guests through interesting and always relevant topics. View the entire article over here:
Some of our work students and colleagues decided to try their luck on the Bunq Hackaton again. I like this initiative very much. It’s informal, inspiring and a little bit tiring 😇😁 Our team had an awesome concept developed, but unfortunately it didn’t make it into the awards. Apparently IoT is a bit more appealing…