Talks & Lectures
I speak at universities, meetups and in-house sessions — about human–AI interaction, interface history and the craft behind digital products. Since 2014 I also teach UX and interaction design at the HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd.
2026/07 · Conference talk
UXCOMM.AI, BMW Group IT
A talk at BMW Group IT’s internal UX conference, in three movements: why chat breaks as AI shifts from answering to acting, the Control-Aware UX framework, and the pattern catalogue live — five lanes from inline controls to agent workflows, demonstrated on Property Panel, Spatial Canvas, Editable Plan, Citation Trail and AI Memory.
2026/06 · Guest lecture
Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt
From command to co-creation: why chat is a bridge technology and how Control-Aware UX makes AI autonomy tangible. Based on my research with 78 interactive prototypes exploring spatial controls, autonomy dials, confidence signals and supervisor dashboards.
2025/12 · Guest lecture
Why chat becomes a command bottleneck once AI starts acting, and what replaces it: a three-layer model that separates the normative question (why), the procedural one (how) and the interface itself (what). The second half turns the framework into a research programme — reliable control in safety-critical contexts, meaningful explanation as a basis for trust, and visual, parametric and canvas-based alternatives to the prompt.
2024/03 · Meetup
Star Connects Meetup, Star Space, Munich
A hands-on session exploring how AI can streamline strategic storytelling for designers. The talk introduced a framework for creating concise, visually engaging narratives with AI tools like ChatGPT, Midjourney and Runway, aimed at improving how product visions are communicated to stakeholders and end users. Co-presented with Thomas Helmer.
2021/06 · Guest lecture
M.A. User Experience Design, Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt
A lecture on the evolution, fundamentals and future of graphical user interfaces — from the history of the discipline to the principles that make interfaces intuitive: visual appeal, consistency, efficiency and responsiveness. It closed with a forward-looking question: whether the best interfaces might ultimately be the ones you cannot see.
2018/04 · Conference talk
Kreativforum Ostwürttemberg, Aalen
Digital tools shape the working day of a whole profession — especially the ones used for communication and creative collaboration. The talk looked at the designer as a communicative medium and at the three trends accelerating the digital product process: real-time collaboration, version control and knowledge transfer.
Since 2014 · Lecturer
User Experience & Interaction Design
Hochschule für Gestaltung / University of Applied Sciences, Schwäbisch Gmünd
Teaching the entire design process from problem definition to high-fidelity prototyping. I guide students through the scientific discourse on the impact of digitalisation on society and supervise interactive information visualisation projects.