Goeiedag!
My name is Gaël. I am a thirty year old skateboarder from the Netherlands. Apart from flicking a mean kickflip, I'm working as a UX Designer, at Lab Digital in Utrecht.
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Hello!
My name is Gaël. I am a thirty year old skateboarder from the Netherlands. Apart from flicking a mean kickflip, I'm working as a UX Designer, at Lab Digital in Utrecht.
A maker of sorts, since I was a kid.
Stories, paintings or clay.
Crafter of functional animation.
Trying to be as tidy as they come.
Shooting 35mm film using old cameras.
Fumble with words, turns them into poetry.
Studied in Rotterdam and Tampere (Finland).
Rolls around the neighbourhood on a board.
Raised in the south-west but,
moved to the east of the Netherlands.
Work experience
Lab Digital, Utrecht
September 2019 - Present
User Experience Designer
Clients
Agradi. Alliander. Danone. Discogs. Driven. Heineken. Louwman Group. RSR. SAM. Shuttel. Suzuki. Transtrend.
Lots of ongoing stuff, have a look at our projects.
Clockwork, Amsterdam
June 2018 - August 2019
User Experience Designer
Clients
ABN AMRO. Achmea. Bindinc. HZPC. ING. Ingenico. KPMG. MijnDomein. NS. Omoda. Ordina. Praxis. Port of Rotterdam. Rabobank. Ridder. Schiphol Real Estate. Studystore.
Greenberry, Utrecht
June 2016 - May 2018
User Experience Designer
Clients
Achmea. Centraal Beheer. Dierenpark Amersfoort. Gemeente Nijmegen. Grand'Italia. Heineken. Hogeschool Utrecht. Intermediair. KRO NCRV. MijnDomein. Nationale Energiecommissie. Nespresso. Rabobank. SIDN. Tippiq. Travel Essence. Veka Shipyards. Zilveren Kruis.
Demola, Tampere (FIN)
December 2014 - April 2016
UX - & Visual Designer
Clients
Demola Tampere, Finland. National Library Finland. University of Tampere. Technical University of Tampere.
Education
Msc. Human Technology Interaction
August 2014 - June 2016
University of Applied Sciences, Tampere - Finland.
Courses
Human Technology Interaction. Psychology. Academic Writing. Project work. Statistics.
Graduation topic
Transparency in Adaptive Mobile User Interfaces. Graded 8/10.
Bsc. Communication & Multimedia design
September 2010 - May 2014
University of Applied Sciences, Rotterdam.
Courses
User Experience Design. Screen Design. Project work. Creative coding. Concept development. Academic writing.
Graduation topic
Altruism in Interactive Media. Thesis written while intern at Except, Rotterdam. Graded 8/10.
Interests
What makes me tick
Steady collection of interests. Trying to stay in motion.
Steady collection of interests. Trying to stay in motion.
Understanding by writing.
Questioning while reading.
Focusing on photography.
Exploring while skateboarding.
Growing by caring.