Adam's portfolio

My projects

Mission Control

Interaction design, UX design, Game design

Mission control is a co-op game experience where a team of three space explorers collaboratively manoeuvre a rover on a stormy planet. Doing so requires coordination and teamwork since no one has complete information about the game-state, and the controls for the rover is split between two of the three players.
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The project focused on using the affordances of selected interaction technologies (VR, a projection table with marker tracking and two walkie-talkies) as well as the concepts of constrained communication, key information being divided between different players and real time collaborative input, to create a challenging and rewarding team-play experience.

HjemmeBedst

Strategic design, Service design, Research

As a part of my course on strategic design, my team and i developed a service strategy for the hypothetical case "Sustainable grocery shopping for Salling Group". Our proposal was a grocery delivery subscription service that could reduce inner city emissions and congestion by batching grocery deliveries through an innovative service model and an expansion of Salling Groups existing infrastructure. This opens up a new revenue stream for Salling Group, offers a convenient alternative to grocery shopping in a store and delivers a win-win-win for the customer, the company and the environment.

Modul

UX design, Interaction design, UI Design, Research

As one of the largest design projects in my bachelors program, my team designed a wearable device for people with epilepsy. Through desk research and interviews with our target users we discovered that the few existing wearables for people with epilepsy failed to address the wide range of needs that the condition can induce. To address this we took a modular approach an designed a highly customisable device, that allows the user to set up the functionalities of the device in a way that best helps them with their needs.

My Education

I have a bachelors and a masters degree in Digital Design from Aarhus University, but what exactly does that mean?
The Digital Design program focuses on a mix of practical design skills geared towards digital artefacts (devices, websites etc.), relevant analytic research skills and some technical skills (like programming). These three pillars are developed together to produce designers who have strong domain knowledge, experience with a wide arsenal of design methods and processes, an ability to thoroughly understand complicated issues and the capacity to explain why one solution is better than another. Both my bachelors and masters has had a strong focus on working in teams and i thoroughly believe that design is better when we do it together.

Masters

Advanced UX and interaction design + research.

My Master programme expanded on my bachelors with more advanced analytical and research skills, and expanded upon my skills in interaction design with a focus on designing with new and emerging technologies. It also introduced new design approaches and disciplines like Strategic Design and Service Design.

Additionally my Masters degree also included a four month internship which i spent as a design intern at Hello Monday. There, I worked on prototyping in-video shopping interactions for a leading video platform. Helped develop cross platform brand identity and presentation for a project bringing one of the largest mobile game libraries in the world to PC. And contributed UX explorations to a redesign of a popular wearable fitness tracker's interface

Highlighted courses

Thesis project

For my master's thesis i studied how a team of healthcare IT-designers worked with design ethics, and created a reflection- and process tool to enhance their ethical engagement.

Strategic Design

Using design competency to drive strategic innovation and working with design as a part of a larger organisational context.

Experimental interaction design

Designing, prototyping and programming with experimental/emerging technologies and coupeling technical potential to design problems.

Research methods and practices in digital design

Expanding practical research skills, and ability to structure and conduct studies and research in the field of digital design.

Bachelors

A broad base of design knowledge and skills.

My bachelors degree focused on courses in UI- and interaction design, UX design, and design methods. In particular there was a focus on integrating user perspectives in the design process and developing the habit of always making sure your decisions were grounded and well reasoned.
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I focused my bachelors on Critical Data Studies which applies critical thinking to the study of how we produce, store and use data in digital technologies, acknowledging that even decisions about a technology that seem purely technical have real-world human impacts.

Highlighted courses

Interaction- and interface design

How to analyse and construct interfaces and interactions with a focus on user udnerstanding.

Co-design

Practicing methods for user research and user testing, as well as how to design with users rather than just for users.

Interaction technologies

Understanding various interaciton paradigmes and building/programming physical prototypes (including programming with sensors and IoT)

Datafication of society

Aplying a sociological lense to the ways digital technologies shape, not just individual lives but society as a whole.

Things i nerd about

Physical prototyping / creative making

Protoyping, crafting, programming

I love to make things that solve a problem or just pose an interesting challenge to my design skills. I have spent a lot of time with various projects working from Fusion 360 to some sort of fabrication technology (mostly 3-axis CNC milling and 3D printing). Sometimes i make simple things like a cable managment attachment for my laptop charging brick (RIP. to the old cable management ears on macbook chargers), but a lot of the time i have some project that overlaps with my other interests, such as making a mechanical counting coin to track life points in DnD or Magic: the gathering.

I also like to combine the 3D modeling and fabrication with some arduino based electronics and programming, like this little robot model with poseable limbs and a screen that can change expression. It's controlled via bluetooth, and i had to figure out how to make the screen — which was meant for Raspbery-pi — work with the bluetooth arduino controler.

Gamedesign and mechanics for play

Analytic skills, systematic design, (User) Experience design

A common theme in my interests is a love for games, play and in particular game design and mechanics. How do you make a set of rules and presentation that fosters a fun, challanging or interesting play experience? How do some games (like the classic abstract game Go) get so much interesting complexity out of such simple mechanics. And how do others (Like Magic: the gathering) juggle a robust and complex ruleset to continuously make hundreds of new cards each year, without making older play pieces obsolete or ruining the experience of play?

I'm similarily fascinated by the way table-top roleplaying games merge rules and social interaction to create collaborative fictions and play. I love playing with new rules systems and figuring out how they are designed to do what they do well (or how they fail to do so), and this is also the area where i have spent most hours on actual game design, modyfing systems and adding new mechanics to existing games.

Cooking, food, coffee and beer

Creative skills, working with constraints

I also love cooking. Mixing technical skills, knowledge and using my senses to be able to make great food on the fly with the ingredients i have on hand has always been a fun challenge to me, and exploring new cuisines and discovering fun ingredients techniques and flavors will always be a joy, especially when it tastes good in the end!
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The ways that something as mundane as coffee or beer reveals a whole world of interesting varieties and processes of fermentation and production when you look closer is fascinating to me. I especially love knowing how different variables in the brewing process contribute to the final flavor and, in the case of coffee, putting that knowledge to tasty, tasty use ☕.

I'm a designer and UX-nerd that thrives with complex challenges and loves making stuff for real-world people.

My projects

My Education

Things i nerd about