The Work and Play of Dennis Koks

About me.

I'm a designer who specializes in User Experience Design for the web. I always try to incorporate the WOW-factor in design while staying user-centered. I believe design should be engaging (also on a emotional level) and shift paradigms when the opportunities are there.

I mostly work on a freelance basis, but I'm always open for interesting offers. Furthermore I work on some self-initiated projects and I'm currently occupying myself with the creation of an interactive art installation.

I'm also wrapping up my graduation project for the Communication & Multimedia Design course on the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences. This project is about the potential social character of tangible user interfaces, and takes place at the industrial design faculty of the TU Delft. I'll make my thesis available here when everything is has been finalized.

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Where I speak my mind.

That's on Johnny Holland. Johnny is all about interaction and experience design. It's a collaborative initiative from the Johnnies where we talk, discuss and share our findings, questions and curiosities with the rest of the world.

On Johnny I've mostly been writing about physical (tangible) interactions and psychology. Lately my activity has dropped due to the amount of time that went into my graduation project. Still, if you feel the uncontrollable need to share your knowledge on experience design with Johnny, don't hesitate to drop a line.

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Work & Play.

Web

D-reizen is the biggest travelagency in the Netherlands. Their new website revolutionizes the way people search for holidays and travel on the web. For the first time ever they're able to search for a 'romantic weekend in Linz' or 'child-friendly bungalows in Sevilla' instead of only using a date and destination picker. A team effort which I worked on for two months.

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Web | Mobile | Installation | Research

  • Project: Transparent Spaces
  • Through: Self-initiated
  • Job: Co-founder | Designer | Researcher

A project which explores how we can use online data and data from the physical environment, to improve social cohesian in physical spaces. Important issues are the relationships between, and different interpretations of, data. As well as providing interaction triggers based on this social data. This is an ongoing project.

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Web

Gerritse is a big hardware supplier in the Netherlands which is targeted at the construction industry. Fabrique designed a webshop for them which is focussed on the workflow of the industry. A team effort which I worked on for four months.

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Web

For the Amsterdam Tourist Board Fabrique designed a website which provides all the information you need to plan your trip to Amsterdam. I worked on the Visiting portal during a period of 4 weeks as a Junior interaction designer. In 2009 iamsterdam.com won both an European Design Award and a german IF award.

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Application

Thiememeulenhoff is a large publisher of educational material in the Netherlands. I created the designproposals for the application that's part of their music teachingmethod.

Web

  • Client: NOS
  • Job: Designer | Concept | Positioning

In 2009 the NOS wanted to gather ideas for their new website. They approached a group of designstudents and asked if we could come up with design proposals for their homepage. With 2 others I conducted 32 interviews with their targetgroup which I used as input to design a proposal. The redesign focussed on being a newsportal divided between news & sports (their two big pillars). The architecture of their new homepage is to a large extend identical to my propsal.

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Physical

  • Client: Sophia Childrenshospital
  • Through: HRO
  • Job: Concept | Research

For the Sophia Childrenshospital we came up with a concept for children between the age of 3 and 8 who need to be isolated. We developed a 'buddy' which monitors the child's health 24/7. Next to that it learnes from gestures, sound and touch and comes up with an response. Thereby providing the patient also with a playmate.

Web

Artstart is busy with building the largest digitalist art library in the Netherlands. We came up swith a concept to make this accesible. We've broken the traditional trail of artist-galleryholder-consumer and connected the artist directly to the consumer. Hereby we made the market more transparent and the process of buying art more accesible.

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