Solo project · 2026

Designing and building a tarot app into the app stores

A tarot app designed, built, and shipped solo, with its own brand identity, live now on the App Store and Google Play.

Rabobank · 2021–present

Design projects at Rabobank

Various projects leading several design teams of the retail banking app, insurances, websites, and platform.

VDAB · 2021

Improving employee experience and workflow for job mediators

From instructions in a PowerPoint deck to robust internal tooling for VDAB mediators to match job seekers with training programs across Flanders.

Atrias · 2020

Rebuilding a decade-old public website with a renewed publishing flow

A public website redesign for Atrias, Belgium's central information provider for the energy sector. It replaced a decade-old publishing flow for regulatory documentation.

Tinybots · 2015–2019

Designing Tessa, a social robot for people with dementia

From a research finding about realism to a social robot in hundreds of homes: designing Tessa's embodiment, app, production, and design system.

Tinybots · 2019

The back-office application to manage a fleet of robots and subscriptions

An internal dashboard that managed customers, hardware, subscriptions, and shipping for a growing fleet of robots in the field.

Tinybots · 2018

Conversational design for a social robot

Branching, speech-recognized conversations robot Tessa could have with people with dementia, fully scripted and controlled by their families.

VU University · 2013–2015

Designing social robots for cognitive impairments

A PhD research project testing how much realism a social robot needs to support people with cognitive impairments, later shaping the design philosophy behind Tessa and Tinybots.

TU Delft · 2012

Bridging the gap between a design idea and working code

An M.Sc. graduation thesis at TU Delft building the Code Companion, a three-part paper toolkit that helped interaction designers translate a design idea into working code, tested in real workshops with design students.

DSM · 2011

Designing a business model from two months of fieldwork in rural India

A six-month service design project mapping farmers' daily lives across rural India to design a viable business model for a new livestock feed supplement.

TU Delft · 2010

Prototyping interactions in hardware without writing code

A five-month TU Delft research project building a modular hardware toolkit that let designers sketch physical interactions without writing code.