The term strategic design is getting more and more popular, but only a few know what it really is. In order to create a shared understanding, I designed a model which puts the core aspects of strategic design into perspective, and which presents my view on strategic design: a holistic approach to orchestrate components of […]

MEDS stands for ‘Meeting of Design Students’ and over the last six years it became an international network with participants from more than 35 countries. Once a year, MEDS organizes a workshop for around 250 students and young professionals from design, architecture, offering the opportunity to get hands on experience in different workshops and to meet people […]

Today, we are going to present the first beta of the business method toolkit and an updated version of the design method toolkit in Amsterdam. The new design of the open source tools and a SCRUMable task description helps to better plan and execute ideation and implementation. It’s been more than two months from now […]

During the last months I was involved in the teaching of 60 IT-students in the AGILE development program “connecting startups” at the HvA in Amsterdam. Responsible for the UX and concept development I gave constantly feedback on their projects. The three best projects were presented yesterday at the StudioHvA.  Winners are rent a cube – an mobile app to rent startup-facilities (future project), […]