educational background
Educated as an Industrial Design Engineer at IDE in Delft.
- Focusing on human-product interaction and usability;
- Internship at the usability department of Ericsson Consumer Products in Lund, Sweden (now SonyEricsson);
- Graduated at the Media Interaction Group of Philips Research Eindhoven in the Ambient Intelligent Lighting project, a project that produced the Philips Ambilight television (which was a slightly bigger commercial success than the concept I developed myself: the infolight.