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Fee Schmidt-Soltau Service & User Experience Designer I like to design fun and meaningful new services and digital tools, which allow people to learn and create. My work is user centred with a focus on co-creation in social and environmental projects in international contexts. “The world’s a playground, let’s test and prototype ideas.” EMPLOYMENT Jan 2012 - Present Freelance Designer Design Lead for the ‘CarbonCulture at DECC Report’. Curation and built of http://baobab.staticloud.com for Southbank Centre. UX Design for http://mazepuzzlebox. co.uk and blogging for London Design Festival. Sep 2011 - Dec 2011 Sustainable Tourism Development Collaborating with local council and businesses to develop new services and maps promoting Monchique as a sustainable tourism destination. Sep 2012 - Sep 2011 UX Designer for CarbonCulture Researching and designing web applications to save en- ergy and carbon in workplaces. Design and implementa- tion of pilot at Department of Energy and Climate Change. Jun 2008 - Sep 2008 Design Researcher Brand strategy research for an Indian energy conglomerate with Onio Nxt based in Pune. Feb 2007- Sep 2007 Craft Development Volunteering Program Learning an Indian indiginous wood craft with locals. At- tracting media attention and collaborating with the Craft Council of Karnataka to create employment - keeping the craft alive. DESIGN EDUCATION June 2010 Master of European Design (M.A.) 5 year international Master with integrated Bachelor Sep 2009 - Jun 2010 The Glasgow School of Art Product Design (Home University) Codesign, design research, business planning Aug 2008 - Jun 2009 University of Art and Design Helsinki Industrial and Strategic Design (Exchange) Branding, creative teamwork, product design Oct 2007 - Jul 2008 International School of Design Cologne Multi Disciplinary Design Projects (Exchange) Service design, design research, creative teamwork Sep 2005 - Jun 2007 The Glasgow School of Art Product Design (Home University) Ethnographic research, product design PUBLICATIONS Oct 2012 CarbonCulture at DECC Report UX Design for web layout and imagery http://bit.ly/CC_report Jun 2007 Levenskracht Yearbook Content contribution and English editing ISBN 3-9808573-1-X Key Skills Wire frames + User flows Service Design Methods Design Research & UCD Documentation of Process Prototyping & Testing Blogging & Community Management Follow me & get in touch! feeschmidts fee.schmidtsoltau [email protected] +44 ( 0 ) 7857262002 Portfolio & CV http://feeschmidts.github.com
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Fee Schmidt-SoltauService & User Experience Designer
I like to design fun and meaningful new services and digital tools, which allow people to learn and create. My work is user centred with a focus on co-creation in social and environmental projects in international contexts.
“The world’s a playground, let’s test and prototype ideas.”
EMPLOYMENT
Jan 2012 - PresentFreelance DesignerDesign Lead for the ‘CarbonCulture at DECC Report’. Curation and built of http://baobab.staticloud.com for Southbank Centre. UX Design for http://mazepuzzlebox.co.uk and blogging for London Design Festival.
Sep 2011 - Dec 2011Sustainable Tourism DevelopmentCollaborating with local council and businesses to develop new services and maps promoting Monchique as a sustainable tourism destination.
Sep 2012 - Sep 2011UX Designer for CarbonCultureResearching and designing web applications to save en-ergy and carbon in workplaces. Design and implementa-tion of pilot at Department of Energy and Climate Change.
Jun 2008 - Sep 2008Design ResearcherBrand strategy research for an Indian energy conglomerate with Onio Nxt based in Pune.
Feb 2007- Sep 2007Craft Development Volunteering ProgramLearning an Indian indiginous wood craft with locals. At-tracting media attention and collaborating with the Craft Council of Karnataka to create employment - keeping the craft alive.
DESIGN EDUCATION
June 2010Master of European Design (M.A.) 5 year international Master with integrated Bachelor
Sep 2009 - Jun 2010The Glasgow School of ArtProduct Design (Home University)Codesign, design research, business planning
Aug 2008 - Jun 2009University of Art and Design Helsinki Industrial and Strategic Design (Exchange)Branding, creative teamwork, product design
Oct 2007 - Jul 2008International School of Design CologneMulti Disciplinary Design Projects (Exchange)Service design, design research, creative teamwork
Sep 2005 - Jun 2007The Glasgow School of ArtProduct Design (Home University)Ethnographic research, product design
PUBLICATIONS
Oct 2012 CarbonCulture at DECC ReportUX Design for web layout and imageryhttp://bit.ly/CC_report
Jun 2007 Levenskracht YearbookContent contribution and English editingISBN 3-9808573-1-X
Key SkillsWire frames + User flows Service Design Methods Design Research & UCDDocumentation of ProcessPrototyping & TestingBlogging & Community Management
Follow me & get in [email protected] +44 (0) 7857262002
Portfolio & CVhttp://feeschmidts.github.com
Mini PortfolioFee Schmidt-Soltau
UNDER THE BAOBABCommunicating a participatory art processhttp://baobab.staticloud.com
This website allowed visitors of the Festival of the World at Southbank Centre to explore the inspiration of fabric patterns and the construction of the Baobab tree, a par-ticipatory art structure exibited throughout summer 2012. I produced the majority of the assets, and designed and built a responsive website from a mashup of soundcloud, youtube, flickr, staticloud and github. more...
INTERVIEWS, WEBSITE DESIGN, AUDIO EDITING, PHOTOGRAPHY
CARBONCULTURE / SCRUNCHSaving energy and carbon in workplaceshttp://bit.ly/CC_report
CarbonCulture encourages employees to save carbon and energy through fun and rewarding web applications using gamification and behaviour change theory. Scrunch is one of three activities developed with and tested at DECC. It offers a comfortable evening work space and helps employees to leave work on time resulting in health benefits and saving energy. more...
CONCEPT, WIREFRAMES, USER TESTING, PROCESS
SNACKSTOPPER APPNative Win8 app encouraging better health and donationsSoon on Windows Marketplace
The SnackStopper app helps people to snack less by raking up ‘Feel Good’ points and showing off to their colleagues. Points can tripled by donating to charity to feel even better. The app is an outcome of The Giving Lab Win8 Hackathon at Seren at the beginning of Sep 2012 and will soon be available in Windows Marketplace. more...
BEHAVIOURAL CHANGE, UX, WIREFRAMES, UI, TESTING
Design Software & LanguagesPhotoshop, Indesign, lllustrator, Omnigraffle, Axure, Premiere Pro, Html5, Css3, Bootstrap
Making skillsIllustration (line drawing), Book Making (glue binding and layout), Sculpture (Ceramics & Stone), Wood (structures, joints, hand tools, CNC), Metal & Blacksmithing (basic)
Hobbies & InterestsArt oil painting, photography, book making Craft sewing, creating patterns, illustrationExperiences travel, cycling, climbing Cooking Indian cuisine and savoury baking
Meetups & HackathonsInternet of Things LondonLondon HackerNewsEMF Camp & London Hackspace
Good for NothingGlobal Service JamGobal Sustainability Jam (coordinator)The Giving Lab Design Jam
Human LanguagesGerman NativeEnglish Fluent Spanish Basic
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PROJECTS
Welcome
Welcome to your evening
a desk, re-dock andand get on with your
Marilyn explaining
Baobab tree as a meeting point
