FLARECAST

A Horizon 2020 EU research project building an automated solar flare forecasting system. Solar flares can knock out satellites, disrupt aviation, damage power grids. Predicting them accurately matters. FHNW was one of five consortium partners, alongside institutions in France and the UK Met Office.

My contribution was the interface layer, producing user flows and design specifications for how forecasters and researchers would actually interact with the prediction data. The scientists handled the machine learning. I handled making the output readable to the people who needed to act on it.

Touch Table

The institute held open days where visitors, students, and external partners could explore ongoing research projects. The touch table was the centrepiece, a large interactive display running multiple themed installations coordinated across the lab.

I worked with Prof. Dr. Doris Agotai to help design and organise how student projects were presented on it. Not the most glamorous work, but it taught me something about designing for context. The same information reads completely differently on a wall-sized interactive surface than it does on a screen.

Hypothekarbank Lenzburg

A tablet application for bank advisors at Hypothekarbank Lenzburg AG. The brief was an interactive information tool for pension fund consultations, so advisors could walk clients through complex product options during a meeting rather than handing them a brochure.

I designed and built it in HTML and CSS. An early exercise in the thing I've kept doing since, closing the gap between the design and the thing that actually runs.

iPOLE / United Nations

A collaboration with Swisscom involving an international team across Switzerland, Mexico, the Netherlands, and Germany. The outcome was a holographic data installation exhibited at the United Nations ITU 150th anniversary in Geneva.

Designing for physical, interactive space rather than a screen changes how you think about information entirely. There's no scroll. No back button. People walk up to it, make a judgment in seconds, and move on or stay. Martin Cooper came to see the installation. The man who invented the mobile phone. He looked at it, said something, and walked on. I heard every word. Ask me in person.