User Experience Design is about designing the bridge between business goals and user needs. Often, for a designer, those business goals life in another dimension.
During my graduation I found many similarities between good UX Design and successful start-ups that this became the overall theme of my graduation and my further specialisation as a designer.
When the company I founded grew I started to help other entrepreneurs as a consultant and coach. We became more involved in the business side of the products we were designing and developing, applying this philosophy with succes.
Once a year I would offer our design & development services to a promising
start-up for free, with the intent to buy-in when the launched product or service seemed to actually make people happy.
Being a partner at several start-ups, the importance of reaching business goals through good design made it a neccesity to have a successfull strategy. Teams were maintained by the product being a succes, so there was an urgency to get it right.
After doing this for years I started offering Digital Strategy services and since then have done a lot of projects in this capacity, laying out product strategies that reach millions of users.
Experience
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(Co-) Founded and directed 3 companies
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Coached over 20 start-ups
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Chairmen at incubator StudentsInc
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Running dedicated Strategy projects
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Translating Strategies to successful Products