I am a designer for about 12 years by now, that’s almost half of my life.
It all began when my dad started a two-year vocational training in Media & Web Design. One day, he came home with a Power Mac G4 and Adobe Photoshop 7.0. And I was haunted.
Already, I had been much into photography and creating videos with my dad’s cameras and that passion increased when I started using the Mac. Back in those, days, it was by far the ultimate machine for creating creative content.
So, in the course of years, I learned the basics of design and web developing. I used to create graphics, play with all sorts of calligraphy and created my own homepage.
As a teenager I started to make flyers and websites, take photos or create videos for money. By the time I graduated from high school, I had gathered a client base of 15-20 people. And the rest, as we know, is history written in my CV.

Ever since I was a little kid I used to fiddle around with TVs, media players and phones and dig deep into their endless settings menus, which eventually made me become the tech nerd for family and friends.
I would help them with their tech-emergencies and teach them how to set up the new gadget they’ve bought.
I suppose that helped me to develop an ability to rapidly understand technical matters – especially surrounding software.
I could be handed a totally unfamiliar device or a system and I somehow would figure out what it would do and how it works within a few minutes.
And as I progressed it was not only the interaction with software which would interest me but rather the information architecture and hardware which was behind it. That’s how I got into developing and creating apps and gadgets.