Who I am

I am professional, I take responsibility, for myself, for my actions, or for whatever team I am in. I am a down-to-earth person, I am a critical thinker and I love challenging existing principles (my favourite question is: why?), but this does not get in the way of me being very optimistic.

 

I am ambitious, I love thinking big, setting course and solving problems and hurdles along the way. I am eager to learn, I love throwing myself into something new and unknown, pressuring myself to learn quickly. Furthermore, my communicational skills are well developed, and I am very socially open to everyone.

 

Leadership

I am a natural team leader. In the past few years, I have noticed that taking leadership in a team comes natural to me, and people around me expect me to take leadership. Structuring and giving direction to a team, motivating and coordinating it are things I am, and have become very good at. I’m good at separating essentials and inessentials, and directing all efforts towards the essentials. I’m good at keeping track of the bigger picture and making big decisions accordingly. I am also definitely a team player. I’m more productive in a team, more motivated, more structured, and I don’t like working on my own.

 

Business

Over the course of my bachelor, I have discovered an interest in the business side of design. I have followed multiple courses on business, and have always involved business aspects in my design projects. Among the people who know me, I have gained the reputation of being the business guy and people regularly come to me for advice on the business of their design.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Challenging Existing Principles

I am a critical thinker, and I have a passion for challenging existing principles, rules, and things that have become tradition. I always ask why, and never accept ‘’because this is how it has been for a long time’’ for an answer. I believe that true innovation, groundbreaking design or disruptive business comes from this mentality.

 

Apply business to design 

I believe that knowledge about the phases after conceptualising is as important to a designer as the ideation and conceptualisation phase itself. It is one thing to come up with a great design that solves problems or creates opportunities, but if you don’t think about how to bring it to the market, then your great design will not have any effect or can’t even be realised.

 

In my design approach, I work according to the Lean Startup methods, using minimum viable products, validating as soon as possible, and pivoting when necessary, reducing the amount of time wasted on aspects that are being thrown overboard when a pivot is needed.

 

Apply design to business

I apply design thinking to business contexts. Defining a problem, researching, ideating, conceptualising, validating and iterating. Thinking out-of-the-box to create new ways of delivering value to all parties, this is interlinked with what I said earlier about challenging existing principles.