Hi! I am Anika, a user experience designer and researcher, with a bachelor’s degree in ICT & Media Design and a master’s degree in Industrial Design. During my studies, I followed a ‘powertraining’ regarding video making by Megens and Veenstra and I learned more about marketing in the suitably named minor Digital Marketing. The internship I am most proud of was at Valtech, where I had a position related to user experience design. I have combined my studies with a freelancing job so that I could already gain experience as a designer, videographer and marketeer. 

In 2019 I graduated from Fontys University of Applied Sciences in Eindhoven as an ICT & Media designer. During this bachelor’s program, I learned everything related to digital media. Think of concepting, strategy, programming and user experience. The minor Digital Marketing has been a perfect addition when it comes to not only creating but also positioning products and services I created. To broaden and complement my knowledge especially with regards to research and product design, I enrolled in the master Industrial Design. Learning more about product and service design and how to conduct design research has been great to develop myself as a designer and researcher. I graduated with a project focused on the interesting phenomenon of serendipity, which I studied in an outdoors context, by means of a methodology based on photography.