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Johannes Wigh-Poulsen

Interested in working with and exploring design processes to create meaningful solutions and insights, as well as physical and interactive products. 

Studying a masters degree Digital Design at Aarhus University.

user experience design, interaction design, user insights, and design processes. 

Works and projects

In the following,  a few projects I have worked on will be presented. The projects have been chosen to highlight specific skills, analyses, and synthesis processes, that demonstrates how I usually address a design solution, or what I find interesting working on in my spare time.  

FREELANCE PSYCHOLOGIST

Creating an online presence for a freelance psychologist, working with private and cooperate clients. This project focuses on communication with a client. Working iteratively readjusting the aesthetics of the website for the client’s needs and wants, while still keeping the users experience in mind.

UI, Mock-ups, Adobe Proto XD, WordPress, Testing

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ALM BRAND DESIGN CHALLENGE

We were given a design brief by a danish insurance firm, to create a product addressing the future of insurance firms. By analyzing customer groups, Interviewing, prototyping, and testing, we created a meaningful tool by addressing touchpoints from the customer journey.

Service design, Contextual Inquiry, Design Sprint, Prototyping

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EXPERIENCING RATHER THAN READING

In our bachelor thesis we investigated the use of self-tracking devices, exploring how a user understands written output, as numbers. This was done through analyzing existing self-tracking devices, as Fitbit and Upright. A prototype was created and used for testing to understand and explore the possibilities and limitations of self-tracking tools.

Design Research, Prototyping, Testing

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The Ambience

Ambience is a project working with live 3D environments using a blue screen room, Maya 3D and Unity. In this project we addressed how one could design in a futuristic context, without addressing the focused vision: When living with someone, there is a certain feeling of comfort that you get, when the person is around you. Even though you don't look directly at them. Some address this when being alone, by turning on the television or the radio. We therefore wanted to address this feeling through a futuristic design solution.

3D Modelling, Speculative Design

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Corona Jacket
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The Corona jacket is a university project. This project addresses the technology of e-textiles, by having non-human elements interact with each other. We created this jacket with the context of the Corona Pandemic in mind. The jacket alerts people getting within one meter of the wearer of the jacket, by making LED’s blinking faster and faster according to one’s proximity.

Prototyping, Soft-computation

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REPURPOSING PROJECTS
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Addressing the ever growing abundance of consumer electronics I have several projects, where I'm trying to reuse some of the old speakers, computers, and phones, that are going to waste. By redesigning it to meet the needs of a modern day user, one less product will have to be produced from scratch. This gives a lot of satisfaction knowing, while I'm also learning a lot about how the products work.

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CV

CV

WORK EXPERIENCE

2018 – 2020 IT at Via Trafik A/S, Aarhus. In charge of IT equipment and software on a day-to-day basis.

2016 – 2018 Technician at Phonecare, Østerbro. Copenhagen & Aarhus. Repairing and diagnosing iPhones, Android phones, and tablets. Customer service and IT support. Responsible of running the shop day-to-day.

2015 – 2016 Serviceworker, Gaustablikk Høyfellshotell og skicenter, Norway. Food preparation, cleaning, opening and closing the shop. At times waiter at the restaurant. Strenghened Scandinavian language skills.

2013 – 2015 Errand boy, gardener, and cleaning, Odense Provsti. Serving food, keeping a garden, and helping out wherever it’s needed.

2012 – 2013 Sales Assistant, Føtex, Odense, Vesterbro.

EDUCATION

2020 – Graduate Digital Design, Aarhus Universitet

2020-2020 Exchange, Seoul National University

2017-2020 Bachelor Digital Design, Aarhus Universitet

2012- 2015 Sct. Knuds Gymnasium

2011-2012 Ryslinge Efterskole

Course : Project management

2007-2011 Henriette Hørlück skole

2001-2007 Sct. Michaels Skole

ADDITIONAL WORK AND EXPERIENCE

  • Building and testing prototypes
  • Wireframing and mock-ups
  • Methods for creativity
  • Knowledge & Insights creation
  • Knowledge analysis and implementation
  • Building and testing websites (wordpress)

SOFTWARE AND SKILLS

Adobe XD // WordPress // Lightroom //Javascript P5.JS // Office //  Photoshop // Maya 3D  // Fusion 360 // Lasercut // 3D Printing

LANGUAGES

Danish
English
Norwegian/Swedish
German

ABOUT ME

ABOUT ME

My name is Johannes Wigh-Poulsen, born 11. Septemer 1995 in Kolding and grew up in Odense. Began studying a bachelor’s degree in Digital Design at Aarhus University in 2017.  In 2020 I spent one semester at the best university in Korea, Seoul National University. Currently I am studying my graduate degree in Digital Design.

I enjoy digital design, as it lets me be creative through design processes to create meaningful artefacts, exploring technology and materials. Everything from gathering information, analyzing users, to creating and testing prototypes.

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