Hi, I'm Tom ✿ thank you for checking out my portfolio ✐ FYI, I am currently looking for a job in the Netherlands ⚡︎

My designerly interests

I have a special interest in designing for creators. I get excited about any form of creativity, and would love to help people reach their full creative potential. I think production of cultural artifacts are a noble cause that should be stimulated and regarded as a one of the highest honours in society. The development of artifacts, the giving of meaning to our world. Making art is expressing love towards humanity. It is what makes us human. Be it professional music production, amateur book writing, or a child doing improv acting, I am interested in working towards supporting them.

I wholeheartedly believe in the idea of co-creation as a way to move towards a more equitable future, that stimulates the aforementioned practices of creativity, and allows all people to express their inherent creativity. I am interested in applying the ideas of participatory design and contextmapping. I would love to cooperate with institutions working on seriously world changing service design and apply the methods and approaches I have learnt, both at UID and TUDelft.

My designer Journey

My journey starts at TUDelft, where I got a bachelor in Industrial Design Engineering. Here I learnt a methodical approach to problem solving and had my first encounters with user centered design and design research. In addition to the regular curriculum, I participated in the Honours programme, and the EyeOculus Project to deepen my understanding of design. As I gained some mostly self-taught skills in digital product design, I took on the job as the sole UX/UI (and sometimes graphic) designer at Docklab, a company that uses Web3 solutions to solve wicked logistics problems. Since then their design focus grew, as did the design team. I left in the summer of 2023, to pursue a master degree in Interaction Design at Umeå Institute of Design, which is what I am still doing to this day.

Read more about my career here: https://read.cv/tomvanwijland