Osen Design

21/05/2025

In 2001, I dreamt up a revolutionary class of communication devices by the name of IO.

Whatever you will hear soon – you heard it here first.

19/03/2024

Tesla's UI designers ignoring even the most basic design principles: Not impressed.

Tesla rolling out a software update over-the-air one week after me complaining: Impressed again.

01/12/2023

top secret

16/11/2023

Ride on, baby!

26/07/2023

On this day 10 years ago, I had the privilege to chair a session about design and user experience at the HCII2013 in Las Vegas, invited by the godfather of UI design Aaron Marcus, together with the fab four Roby Attisano, Walter Rafelsberger, Jochen Gasser and Alex Schieder – what an experience!

27/06/2023

Congrats to the team of PLANCISE for being awarded „Smart Warehouse Solution of the Year“ among over 1,400 nominees globally! I was privileged to be part of that journey from day one and support the startup with branding, illustration and UI/UX direction.

Workforce management software winner of 2023 SupplyTech Breakthrough award. PLANCISE chosen among over 1,400 nominations globally.

06/06/2023

The marketing videos of the Apple Vision Pro with the weird cable sticking out from the back remind me of a project we did at SONY 20 years ago called SpotlightNavigation, a mobile projection device. Apart from overseeing the user experience and inventing new interaction paradigms, one of my tasks was to design a compact, slick hardware prototype. However, as computing and power had to be done externally, we ended up with an ugly and annoying cable. As you can see, we tried to hide it as well as possible in our demo videos.

The whole user experience of the Vision Pro reminds me of ideas we explored 20 years ago (a spatial interface with multimodal input combining eye tracking, hand gestures and speech). While 25-year-old me was thrilled to see all of this come to life, now I can't help but see the dystopian side of it. Apple's presentation was a strange mix of cool, cringe and creepy and definite gave me Black Mirror vibes more than once.

14/04/2023

Wir nennen es Arbeit.

04/03/2023

Currently evaluating the technical feasibility of a new wearable concept. Once again, the past is a huge source of inspiration for me.

Some 200 years before the advent of smart phones and smart watches, my four times great-grandfather already used a set of custom-designed wearables to manage his daily tasks (such as communication, identification, payment, timekeeping). Compared to today's solutions, they all share some remarkable characteristics:

Basic, essential functionality.
Timeless design.
Zero charging.
Lifetime durability.

Can similar qualities be achieved in the digital domain?
Stay tuned…

28/02/2023

Logo for Teach2Code

https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/teach2code/

20/02/2023

Will human creativity be rendered obsolete by AI in the near future? Decide for yourself. The task at hand was to write a short text about a very specific topic (the historic craft of scythe forging in Austria).

One of the two texts was written by a human with years of intensive experience in the field (yours truly), the other one was written by ChatGPT. Can you tell the difference?

Hint: Some of the facts written by ChatGPT are just plain wrong.

21/12/2022

Windows frozen? Oh, it's that time of the year again!

(Visual: Fractal Snowflake Tesselation, just snowing off…)