TagFinder

During my studies, I learned to always question the status quo. For example, the "End of File" course was about developing a new operating concept for organizing and managing different file formats. The "Tagfinder" prototype was created in collaboration with Jonathan Schmitz and Philipp Daub. Existing structures and paradigms were broken up and the usual hierarchical organization of files was replaced by a flat hierarchy in the form of tags. Our design is based on the assumption that an advanced artificial intelligence is integrated that can recognize content and context and automatically links the files with tags to avoid manual tagging. Projects like the Tagfinder have made it clear to me that innovation is part of design. Design is more than just aesthetics, it is a mindset full of openness. As a designer, I want to try new things and adapt quickly to change.

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Design Fiction: A new Health System

Back as early as my second semester, I attended a course that dealt with artificial intelligence in order to explore possible future scenarios. The result was a poster that describes a scenario in which the network "The Mobile Helpers" exists. Among others, it consists of psychotherapists and psychiatrists who take measures for patients using an AI-based early warning system that predicts illnesses or acute situations. A part of the course was the independent organization of a workshop. This workshop was about making the interaction with an AI more human-like by giving it more personality. I am very grateful that I had a lot of freedom during my studies and was also able to realize several fictional projects that are not focused on the present, but on the future.

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