Cliant: Institut für Architektur - TU Berlin

Role: Project Coordinator - UX design - UI design - Content Management

The pandemic of 2020 presented academic institutions with an option, either diversify or stick one's head in the ground and wait for others to take the lead. The institution chose the latter, while the faculty and students decided to diversify. Headed by Fachgebiet FG Hehl, I lead the UX design and coordination of an alternative Technische Universität Berlin Institut für Architektur website acting as a digital platform dedicated to promoting students' work.

The main task was to create a navigation through the various Fachgebiet that was tectonic and playful as the old site offers a confusing labyrinthian experience. I lead a team of students, collecting content for the backend while producing UI content that enables visitors to digitally wander through the iconic building designed by Bernhard Hermes and Hans Scharoun in 1966, experiencing the student's work and its many architectural features. The process was a way of taking control of our aesthetic values and connecting current, former, and future students to the yearly exhibition that showcases the student's hard work, culminating in a tour of the building weaving through the many rooms.

I coordinated with a developer to build the site's front end, handing off wireframes and specs. The process was my introduction to product design, where I transferred my technical architectural skills of semiotics and spatial sensitivity into UX/UI design. Knowledge of software specific to architecture was adapted to suit the task, new skills were developed using Figma and adobe xd, and interactive wireframes and icon assets were designed to translate the ideas into a successful platform that is maintained and still used to showcase the student's yearly Rundgang.

Cliant: Institut für Architektur - TU Berlin

Role: Project Coordinator - UX design - UI design - Content Management

The pandemic of 2020 presented academic institutions with an option, either diversify or stick one's head in the ground and wait for others to take the lead. The institution chose the latter, while the faculty and students decided to diversify. Headed by Fachgebiet FG Hehl, I lead the UX design and coordination of an alternative Technische Universität Berlin Institut für Architektur website acting as a digital platform dedicated to promoting students' work.

The main task was to create a navigation through the various Fachgebiet that was tectonic and playful as the old site offers a confusing labyrinthian experience. I lead a team of students, collecting content for the backend while producing UI content that enables visitors to digitally wander through the iconic building designed by Bernhard Hermes and Hans Scharoun in 1966, experiencing the student's work and its many architectural features. The process was a way of taking control of our aesthetic values and connecting current, former, and future students to the yearly exhibition that showcases the student's hard work, culminating in a tour of the building weaving through the many rooms.

I coordinated with a developer to build the site's front end, handing off wireframes and specs. The process was my introduction to product design, where I transferred my technical architectural skills of semiotics and spatial sensitivity into UX/UI design. Knowledge of software specific to architecture was adapted to suit the task, new skills were developed using Figma and adobe xd, and interactive wireframes and icon assets were designed to translate the ideas into a successful platform that is maintained and still used to showcase the student's yearly Rundgang.