Laurens Doesborgh

My nature to learn new things makes me take on new projects with a lot of enthusiasm. In these projects I like to design from the perspective of design opportunities instead of `design problems'.
Analyzing the project's topic and its environment from an abstract level is one of my strengths, enabling me to see and make new and interesting connections.
I believe in the power of social interaction; designing products or services that are created to bring people together, making sure the products and services apply for a large audience.

Profile
I am an industrial designer who is able to combine design with academic research, resulting in a design process in which multiple disciplines are combined, prototyped and tested. With my projects I like to aim for a high level of user-involvement and experience-ability, because I believe in design by doing.

Laurens Doesborgh’s Specialties:

academic, adobe, adobe aftereffects, adobe photoshop, adobe premiere, adobe streamline, aims, assembly language, brand management, cad, com, commission for health improvement, concept development, dreamweaver, dutch, english, flash, german, graphic design, illustrator, indesign, ip, microsoft office, presentation skills, programming, prototyping, research, soldering, summit, vision, web site production, writing, interaction design, product design, consultancy

Laurens Doesborgh’s Experience

Looking for a job as interaction designer/ product & concept developer

laurensdoesborgh.com

(Design industry)

January 2009 — Present (1 year 1 month)
Web / Graphic - designer

Leurs Garden center

(Retail industry)

January 1998 — Present (12 years 1 month)

Throughout the years I did many different jobs here; ranging from salesman to deliveries to the creation
of new product presentations. Since 3 years I also do a lot of work in the graphic design area. In 2006
the new website of the company was put online, which was completely designed and built by me and a
colleague-student.
Student Assistant

Eindhoven University of Technology

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

February 2009 — April 2009 (3 months)

Faculty of Industrial Design -- February
2009 - April 2009
The faculty of Industrial Design focuses on interaction, so a large number of papers was accepted at
the Computer Human Interaction Conference (CHI) in Boston, USA. I was hired by the department to
streamline the communication and practical issues between the faculty's different research groups and
conference teams. Work ranged from finding innovative corporate presents, to creating schedules for
all participants, development of an iPhone Application to showcase our faculty, to shipment of
prototypes to the US, and all internal and external communication between parties.

Microsoft Design Expo 2008, Redmond, US - member of the winning project "Ennea" - July 2008
Each year Microsoft invites several institutions with established programs in interdisciplinary design.
This year they are providing a forum around the theme: "Learning & Education" to showcase
exceptional design thinking about the future of computing and interactions.!Students are asked to
design scenarios, user experiences and interaction prototypes, from!which selected projects will be
featured in a presentation and demonstration at the 2008!Microsoft Faculty Summit July 16-17, 2008 in; The Design Expo creates!a forum for encouraging `out of the box' thinking, by
exploring a student's vision for the future!of computing.
Master of Science, Industrial Design

Eindhoven University of Technology

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

September 2006 — January 2009 (2 years 5 months)
B.Sc

Eindhoven University of Technology

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

2008 — 2008 (less than a year)
Industrial Designer

Philips Design, Design

(Design industry)

April 2008 — August 2008 (5 months)

Philips Design Probes is a dedicated `far-future' research initiative to track trends and developments
that may ultimately evolve into mainstream issues that have a significant impact on business. With the
aim of understanding `lifestyle' post 2020, the program aims to identify probable systemic shifts in the
social and economic domains likely to affect our business and create intellectual property in new
areas. It challenges conventional ways of thinking to come up with concepts to stimulate debate.
Deliverables range from scenarios and narratives to the creation of experience prototypes and IP
fortressing. (www.design.philips.com) During this internship I took part in several parts of the process; idea
generation and brainstorming for new Probes-directions, converging ideas into concepts and
realization/prototyping of these concepts.
Student Assistant

Eindhoven University of Technology

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

November 2007 — December 2007 (2 months)

Faculty of Industrial Design -- November
2007
Creative programming of micro-controllers is part of a first-year bachelor's assignment of the Industrial
Design course. I took part in the SMD-soldering and assembly of the 200 robots that were designed for
this course.
Student Exchange Program

National University of Singapore

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

August 2006 — December 2006 (5 months)
Industrial Designer

POTMSTUDIOS; Venlo

(Design industry)

March 2006 — June 2006 (4 months)

During this internship, which was part of the curriculum of the Bachelor's course Industrial Design, I
took part in several disciplines of the company. The branding and set-up of a new company; concept
creation and development of new product lines; making CAD drawings for manufacturing.
All-round Employee