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Hi, I am Niels. I am a designer who graduated in Industrial Design at the TU/e. I learned product design during my bachelor, and during my master I specialised in interaction design and digital interfaces. Due to my ability to quickly grasp complex technologies, I bridge the gap between complex technical challenges and user-friendly design. Moreover, I can rapidly develop interactive and functional prototypes, allowing me to effectively test and optimize ideas. I am more of a ‘show’ than ‘tell’ person, so below I would like to present my experience and projects.

Master projects

Final Master Project | Qwiz

In my Final Master Project, I continued developing quizzing tools for primary schools. I designed a fully functional web app where students can answer quiz questions by holding a cardboard cube in front of a camera. The result of this project was graded an 8.5.

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M21 | SCIO

This project served as a preparation for my Final Master Project and was a collaboration with CTOUCH. I explored how new interfaces, using technologies such as QR codes and RFID chips, could make quizzing tools for primary schools more accessible and less dependent on phones and laptops.

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M12 | Social Essence

In this project, I researched how interfaces, such as motion capture, can contribute to social presence.

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M11 | Augmented Adventures

In this group project, my team and I explored the true value of Augmented Reality in board games. Through iterative prototyping of various prototypes in Unity Engine, we developed an interesting design and research outcome, which we published in a paper.

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Portfolio

Since my bachelor’s degree, I have been maintaining and redesigning my portfolio. I designed the entire portfolio myself and did not use any templates.

Bachelor projects

Stage bij BPO

During my internship at BPO, I learned how to design products suitable for manufacturing. I gained experience in using CAD tools and obtained the SolidWorks CSWA–Mechanical Design and Advanced Surfacing certificates.

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Final Bachelor Project | Corpus

In this project, I researched how motion capture can make complex professional 3D pose tools for artists more accessible to non-professional users. This design is currently on display at the Philips Museum as part of the BrAInpower exhibition.

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Technical skills

🌐 Web Development
Vue.js Qwiz and its continuation
Astro This Portfolio
Three.js SCIO and this Portfolio
p5.js and other canvas tools This portfolio and side projects
Local data storage Qwiz
🎮 Interaction/game engines
Unity Engine Corpus, Social Essence
Unity Engine AR Augmented Adventures
Leap Motion Corpus, Social Essence
Kinect V1/V2 SCIO
Creating Shaders Corpus, Social Essence
⚒ 3D modelling
SolidWorks CAD Bachelor Internship, CSWA and CSWPA-SU
Fusion 360 CAD Car Part, and Side Projects
Blender Side Projects, modeling and rendering

Other skills

🗺️ Languages
Dutch native
German almost native
English fluent (sometimes featuring a Dutch accent)
🎧 Music Production/Sound Design
FL Studio DAW 6 years as a hobby
VCV Rack 2 2 years as a hobby
📐 Visual communication
Adobe Suite Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro
Affinity Suite Photo, Designer, Publisher
DaVinci Resolve Especially rapidly creating demonstrativevideos, see portfolio

Find at my old graduation portfolio here. It is somewhat longer and addresses my porfolio from a more eductional/scientific perspective and with more detail.

Niels Winkelman
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