Email: adam@slide.nu
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Adam Danielsson
Interaction Designer working in cross-disciplinary teams creating relevant and engaging user experiences.
Education
Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden – B.Sc. Interaction Design
2007
Fachhochschule Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany – Interface Design
2007
Skills
Personal
- Artistic, curious, open-minded and can quickly understand and implement new techniques and technologies.
Design
- Methods such as participatory design, ethnographic studies, different ideation techniques, usability testing, rapid prototyping.
Technologies
- Physical computing using the Arduino microcontroller platform and other electronics.
- Interactive installations development using Processing, openFrameworks.
- Native mobile app development for iOS and Android (Swift and Java).
- Web development using HTML, CSS, JS, PHP, SQL, React.
Software
- Sketch, Invision, Fritzing, Xcode, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Premiere, Cinema 4D.
Experience
Professional
Valentin Experience AB, UX Architect and Developer, Gothenburg
Through agile ideation, prototyping and development, I productify needs identified in the agency’s Service Design processes.
- UX and tech lead for an acoustics simulation tool for AB Ludvig Svensson (topic research, ideation through prototyping, development).
- Developed physical interactive installations for Volvo Buses, Volvo Penta, and Port of Gothenburg.
- Running an annual course in IoT at YRGO in Gothenburg.
May 2017–
Freelance, Interaction designer and creative technologist, Gothenburg
Designed and developed interactive multi-year installations for museums and science centers, including user research for accessibility. Exhibitions include “Music Scene Gothenburg 1955-2018” and “Precious Pieces” at Museum of Gothenburg.
- Visitor guide apps for iOS and Android, with content available in Swedish Sign Language and plain Swedish.
- Other screen based and physical installations involving sensors, actuators and cameras.
Apr 2014–May 2017
Navet Science Center, Interaction Designer and Creative Technologist, Borås
Ideation, prototyping, testing and development of interactive multi-year installations, involving sensors, actuators, cameras and multitouch. Strong collaboration with educators and external subject matter experts.
- Designed and developed an interactive table visualising food nutrition and CO2 footprint, serving as an effective conversation starter. Fiducial tracking using four cameras and two projectors.
- Designed and developed a multitouch installation showing the city of Borås’ underground heating and sewage pipe systems.
- Organised and ran lectures in physical computing.
Oct 2011–Dec 2014
Freelance, Interaction Designer and Developer, Borås
- Designed and developed custom visualisations and installations for corporate events.
- Web design and development.
- Experiments with bodily data (e.g. “Give Life” – visualising people’s heartbeats).
Aug 2007–Mar 2012
Publications
A Thermal Information Display for Mobile Applications
Collaboration with Christian Behrens, Thomas Kness and prof. Reto Wettach. Accepted to the Mobile HCI Conference 2007 in Singapore. Read more.
2007
Exhibited pieces
Inner Selfie
Opening of Textile Fashion Center, Borås, Sweden.
Generating unique graphics from peoples’ EEG signals.
May 2014
Mexican Waves
Draft Exhibition, Nordic Light Hotel, Stockholm, Sweden.
Interactive light installation.
Feb 2011
Give Live II
Konstrundan i Sjömarken, Sweden.
Visualization of peoples’ heart beats.
May 2007
Red Eyes
Tangible musical interfaces, Native Instruments, Berlin, Germany.
Feb 2007
Give Life
Implement!, Malmö Museer, Malmö, Sweden.
Jun 2006–Sep 2006
XSense
Implement!, part of interactivos?, Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Madrid, Spain. Featured on wmmna and in See Yourself Sensing: Redefining Human Perception, Madeline Schwartzman, 2011. ISBN: 9781907317293.
May 2006