Envision AR

For the Digital Divide module we came up with an Augmented Reality-powered game, that would allow children to buy robotic updates for their body and use them in minigames.

They could earn money by winning games, but robotic upgrades would give you an unfair advantage. The point of the game was learning children what is about to happen in the near future: rich people will be able to extend their abilities (with genetic engineering for example), which would make the divide between rich and poor even bigger. We made a demo, which will turn you into a robot by holding the tag in front of your webcam.

Win Een Tuin

For a school assignment, we had to deliver a concept to build the brand of a new gardening store. They just started the business, invested a lot of money and wanted people to hear their message.

We developed a website where people could submit their ugly garden, get other people to vote for them and the winner would receive a 'garden make-over'. Gardina, the store, chose our concept over those of professional agencies, which meant the start of several months of hard work to keep the campaign running. In the end, we were quite amazed how people were committed to the campagne. We learned how rewarding online campagnes can be if you work hard and deliver an experience.

Inventis Internship

After almost 3 years of exams and school assignments, we could check what we learned in a professional environment. I chose an internship as a Project Manager in a company called Inventis.

As a Project Manager, I got to manage various projects, have meetings with clients and deliver documents to them, think of cool concepts for websites, etc. At Inventis, I got to work with an amazing, dedicated team, learned a lot about Project Management, Marketing and Cuommunication and had plain fun. I loved every bit of it and it made me realize where I fit in the webdesigning-picture. You can read a weekly report on the internshipblog (in Dutch).

Soundvision webshop

The Soundvision Webshop is the online store for DJ-equipment.

A friend asked me to do a cheap, easy webshop. I decided to give Magento a try, but it took me almost as long disabling unnessecary features than building a new, simple webshop from the ground up. I did learn a lot about flows in webshops and how hard it is for small businesses to gain online customers. You have to earn their confidence and that is quite hard if they have never heard your name before.

Thesis Proposition

For our master, we had to propose a thesis-subject on which we'll be working next year.

I chose to do my thesis about the fading division between work en private life by e-mail and other means of digital communication. We now have a single device (a smartphone, if you will) that handles all our communication, without any distinction, which gives us Facebook-notifications at work and work-related e-mails during a night at the bar. I want to develop a mobile tool that handles this distinction for us, filtering and batching incoming communication, so we can stay focussed on what we're doing. I can't offer you any visual material yet, but you will get updated on this one.