Some words about me.
Hi, I am Sven Szota, a 22 years old User Experience Designer.
Driven by the passion of finding new ways to improve life of others with the help of modern technology I am hugely interested in all kinds of interfaces and ways to interact with media systems. This ranges from traditional applications for desktop and mobile devices to whole interactive installations or smart everyday objects.
At the moment I study Digital Media with focus on Interactive Media Design at the U.o.A.S. Darmstadt and work as a concept and interface design intern at SENSORY-MINDS GmbH.
When not at work I love to watch great TV series, listen to superb indie music or have some conversations about life, technology and future.
RESEARCH
Before anything scribbled or already designed, I do a lot of research when an idea comes up. Are there similiar products on the market? What group of people shall I target? Is there a necessity for the product at all? What should it achieve?
CONCEPT
If the research is done and I feel comfortable with the topic, it can start with the concept. Creating mood boards, user journeys and first drafts of the information architecture are part of this phase.
DESIGN
Once the direction is set, I create several variants of possible interface designs. The exchange with users, wireframes and interaction models provide a basis to find the best possible option for the user.
PROTOTYPING
Prototyping the result not only helps explaining interactions and a product's behaviour to developers but also can be used to test variants with users in order to optimise a design during production.
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Feel free to contact me through the good old contact form or send me a mail directly to this address. If you want to know what I'm up to or just say hello, go ahead and find me on those services listed below.
Kaleidoskop
CAPTURE & RELIVE MOMENTS
Nowadays people are on speed. Our everyday life got enourmously accelerated, meaning that more and more needs to be done in less time. People who want to be successful should not stand still and keep running towards future. However it is of huge importance to take parts of your valuable time in order to become aware of what you really want in life. That‘s where the concept of Kaleidoskop, created in the 3rd semster studying Interactive Media Design, comes into play.
Kaleidoskop is your daily companion. It helps you capturing your important, positive moments in order to relive them again by passive but effective self-reflection.
Kaleidoskop comes as an wearable (Kaleido, standing for beautiful form) and an app (Skop, standing for seeing).
By holding Kaleido you capture the actual moment consisting of many different records of everyday life: your location, friends nearby, the music you are listening to or ambient sounds, photos and videos you or your friends have taken, news of the day and so on.
Skop gathers all that data and packs it into a beautiful, clear and immersive moment to reflect at the end of a day.
Kaleidoskop is intelligent: it remembers you of your happy moments just when it makes sense. If you are near to a location you have had happy moments long time ago, Kaleido acts as your little assistant, reminding you of that great time with soft vibrations, displaying the moment on your smartphone and maybe asks you to commit reliving that moment again.
Sharing is caring: Your best friends are able to share their great moments with you. Skop is therefore full of great stories which have the power to inspire you trying out new things in your life.
Team members: Robin Riess, Dominik Lischka, David Baus
My involvements: Research, Concept, User Experience Design, Skop‘s Interaction Design, Skop‘s Interface Design, Skop‘s Visual Design, Skop‘s Front-End Development, Project-Management
My involvements: Research, Concept, User Experience Design, Skop‘s Interaction Design, Skop‘s Interface Design, Skop‘s Visual Design, Skop‘s Front-End Development, Project-Management
Farbbox
ANOTHER WAY OF INTERACTING WITH LIGHT.
Farbbox, crafted in the 1st semester as part of the Arduino beginner elective, is an experiment of finding an alternative way to interact with a lamp.
By detecting different states of positioning, Farbbox is able to run through various colors. Therefor users can place Farbbox like they want and create their individual mood lighting by really touching and moving the light source. If shaken, Farbbox changes its mode and cycles through the colors on its own.
Technically Farbbox is implemented by an Arduino Uno, a Gyro-sensor for detecting orientation and shakes, RGB LEDs, plexiglas for the chassis and magnets for the closure.
This was a solo project.
This was a solo project.
uSPHERE
AN INTERACTIVE SIMULATION OF GRAVITY & OUR SOLAR SYSTEM.
Discover universe by touching it in spheres, only a few people on earth would experience.
uSPHERE, created in the 2nd semester studying Interactive Media Design, is an interactive multitouch simulation of gravity in the context of our solar system and aims to explain the basic laws of attraction based on our known planets.
By using the shifting of parameters like mass, density and the planet‘s acceleration small changes that may have a major impact on our seemingly stable solar system are illustrated in an immversive way to the user.
On an adventureous journey through our solar system users will become short-term astronauts. As a Mission Specialist steering the Space Shuttle ,Phoenix‘ the user has to solve tasks given by Mission Control to gain important, groundbreaking information about the universe and at the same time learn more about gravity by literally feeling it.
Team: Laura Chiesa, Alexander Oemisch
My involvements: Research, Concept, User Experience Design, Interaction Design, Interface Design, Visual Design
My involvements: Research, Concept, User Experience Design, Interaction Design, Interface Design, Visual Design
Placebucket
STORE & SHARE THE PLACES YOU CARE ABOUT.
Humans travel as much as never before. Even though they visit so many places out of their home town, few of them share their loved found locations to others but their family members or friends. Placebucket, a concept app created in the 3rd semester as part of the Killerapps elective, is made to change that.
With help of Placebucket users are able to store locations they‘ve visited and found great in so called ,Buckets‘ which act exactly like folders. Those Buckets can be made private as well as public in order to share favourite places with other Placebucket users. Once a bucket is shared and followed by others, users are even able to participate and add locations to that certain fitting bucket.
Placebucket is a database for awesome locations. If users want to store a location, they can select from venues out of the foursquare or Google Places API or even add a place by their own.
After fully concepted and designed the app was prototyped in Axure RP.
This was a solo project.
Placebucket is a database for awesome locations. If users want to store a location, they can select from venues out of the foursquare or Google Places API or even add a place by their own.
After fully concepted and designed the app was prototyped in Axure RP.
This was a solo project.