Product Design can mean very many things these days. For me as an Industrial Designer and Product Developer I prefer the term “digital product design” to destinguish between “2D and 3D”. But there is one thing, that is the basis for good Software and Hardware Design: a great User Experience Design. Although every Designer should …
At my 5 months with Truma I had the chance to take part in 2 major future projects. Aventa Comfort – Gen 2 The Aventa Comfort is the benchmark for caravan air conditioning and I could take part in working on the 2nd generation of a true icon. As the in-house Designer at Truma I …
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As a part of my personal development plan and out of pure interest and passion I decided to add another big topic to my learning plan. The question was, how I – as one person, designer and engineer – could have the most impact on working against climate change and for protecting the environment. Of …
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The last years, as a part of a fast changing working and development environment I learned something quite fundamental: “Waterfall” (for Physical Product Development) does not really work anymore. When you have a very long term project, it is most likely that the initial product goal will be obsolete when you try to roll out …
During the installation of a Light Management System, an endless amount of drivers and other electronic devices need to be opened, wired, closed.. maybe reopened. Having a system that works tool-less helps the Installer save time and therefore also money. Still the strain relief needs to be strong and reliable. In our new driver designs …
For our new light management system „VIVARES“ we designed new components like the Gateway or different kinds of LED drivers. The gateway as the heart of the LMS is designed in a very restrained way but it is still showing that it is a real LEDVANCE product. The circular picture mark is engraved in the …
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As a product designer and engineer it is important to be open minded, to learn new things and not stand still. Going through the world with open eyes and being curious has always been a part of my life. But a new digitized world expects even more. Leaving 3D-product development for “only” 2D-digitized products? Probably …
HCL (Human Centric Lighting) is one of the Buzz-words in the lighting industry these days. And I am happy, that I was a part of the development team for our HCL control unit. Not only did we develop a really nice design product with our external partner, but also the installation, app configuration and the …
After several years in the lighting industry I asked myself again: what kind of luminaire would I like for myself. I like light that is „100% non-blinding“ and I like the E27 socket. It is a functional electrical and mechanical interface that everyone knows and if the lightsource fails or you just don‘t like it: it …
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Attending a 2 day Design Thinking workshop does not make me a DT-Guru. I know that. But it gave me loads of ideas of how to use these “new methods” to try to kick-off new innovation projects within the company. All in all we had 3 internal Design Thinking workshops for different topics. They all …
I am proud to announce, that Ledvance Design is a winner of the German Design Award 2019. Together with the Phoenix Design Team Munich, we developed a design language for professional Luminaires called “Scale Design”. Now the job is to implement this language carefully to harmonize the overall appearance of our product portfolio.
Visiting suppliers is always a mind opening experience. Working together on our future products, making them better and progessing faster than ever possible from Germany makes those trips always worth it. After 1500 kilometers by train and many more by plane, my colleagues and I arrived at our LEDVANCE R&D-center in Shenzhen. Not only Typhoon …
What an event. After weeks and months of hard work, the LEDVANCE crew did it! A great booth, great team spirit, better products than 2 years before… very orange though! LEDVANCE @ L+B2018
Yes! We got featured on the Phoenix Design Website. Thank you so much! YOU ROCK! LEDVANCE on the Phoenix Design Website You supported us on the development of the design language, you supported us on the prototypes for the L+B fair and you created a very nice product video in a very short amount of …
What is a product (concept) without a really nice glorifier video? It shows so many features of the scale design language. Especially stretching the circular picture mark into the third dimension shows how serious we are about implementing this brand new design language. Seeing it at the huge screen (and the little ones) during the …
With the purchase of our Ultimaker 3D-Printer for the R&D-Department, a new era of physical development started. From now on, we could iterate very quickly and hands on, could try out different mechanisms and give potential users insight before having super high end prototypes. This gives us the chance to adjust the product to user …
Replacing oldfashioned “basement luminaires” with a fancy, easy-to-install and longlasting alternative. That was the mission. Mission accomplished!
Sometimes dreaming is just not enough. Sometimes you just have to DO it. And we did it. Before we even thought about having Kids, we welcomed the first family member: Klaus. He is orange, very long, not the youngest but perfectly in shape. And we build it up to our personal needs, with enough storage …
Being part of the Occhio Design Team for several years was an exciting experience. Challenging tasks and fulfilling requirements that – at a first glance – seem unfulfillable brought me – personally and professionally – to another level. The technical project management for the Occhio Lei luminaire family felt like bringing my own baby to …
2008 I got the chance to write my Diploma Thesis at Audi in Ingolstadt. The topic was the perfect combination of Design Styling, Design Conception and – even more important for me – feasibility. Being seated in the Design Studio Engineering Team I got deep insights into Exterior and Interior Design as well as the …
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Grundlage für die Bearbeitung dieser Aufgabe war eine neu entwickelte Technologie, mit welcher großformatige Holzfaserwerkstoff- platten nicht mehr wie bisher spanend, sondern durch ein Bruchverfahren getrennt werden. Motivation für die Erschließung neuer Möglichkeiten war in erster Linie, eine weniger gesundheitsschädigende Alternative zu den bisher verwendeten Verfahren zu entwickeln. Ziel war es, eine nutzerfreundliche Maschine zu …
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The task was to design medical devices for wireless Patient surveillance. The result of my internship work were drafts and models for a “wearables- product family” for different measurement methods.
