Designer, engineer and sports enthusiast. Design Director at IDEO
Resume
Mike Kirk Andersen is a Design Director at IDEO, his goal in design is to create engaging, meaningful and useful experiences across digital and physical products. He loves working in multidisciplinary teams and believes it's an essential ingredient for creativity.
Mike holds a Master of Fine Arts in Interaction Design from Umeå Institute of Design in Sweden and an Engineering degree also in Interaction Design from the University of Southern Denmark. Both educations have a strong focus on Human-centred design and the intersection between digital and physical products.
Prior to joining IDEO, Mike has worked in several countries and industries ranging from design research to toys to healthcare, latest he worked for LEGO in Denmark where he designed connected toys and IoT toys in LEGO's Future Lab.
Experience
Design Director
IDEO
Jun 2017 to present
Design Director at IDEO, leading design and product development teams, human-centred designer, agile development, design mentor, design reviews.
Concept Designer
LEGO
Sep 2015 to Jan 2016
Creating play experiences, interaction design, physical play meets digital play, concept design around play, prototyping, video editing, workshop facilitation
Interaction Design Engineer
Danfoss
Jan 2013 to Jan 2014
Interaction design of mobile applications, Design Research, concept development, UX-design and UI-design
Interaction Designer
Swipbox
Sep 2012 to Jan 2013
Interaction design of mobile application & web application, Design Research, concept development, UX-design and UI-design
Experience Designer
BCG Digital Ventures
Jan 2016 to Jun 2016
Working with start-ups, workshops with large corporations, human-centred interaction design, prototyping, wire-framing, concept videos and post-production
Design Researcher
Crown Equipment
Jun 2015 to Sep 2015
Research in wearables, prototypes of ideas and concepts, physical prototypes connecting to Crown trucks using Arduino, screen-based prototypes for user interactions
Research assistant
University of Southern Denmark
Jan 2013 to Sep 2014
Workshop facilitator, project management, user experience design, human-centred design, interviews, video recordings, video editing
Education
M.F.A Interaction Design
University of Umeå
Sep 2014 to Jun 2017
B.A. Engineering
University of Southern Denmark
Sep 2009 to Jan 2013
Skills & Languages
Empathetic
Agile development
Video & sound editing
Physical and digital prototyping
Human-centred design thinking
English
Danish
Featured Projects
LEGO Connected Play
M.A. Thesis
Connected toys are changing what a toy is and what a toy can do. Through interviews, workshops, experiments, mockups, and prototypes, this thesis explores what a connected LEGO play experience could look like.
SwipBox
Diploma Thesis
The final project of my engineering studies was completed with the local company aCon A/S. The project emerged through the development of a parcel delivery system called SwipBox.
Supersizing a Game Controller
Personal Project
For a open house event at Umeå Institute of Design me and some classmates build a interactive installation. we supersize the old NES controller to play the legendary Mario game.