Jan-Christoph Zoels

Senior partner in charge of user experience

In his work Jan-Christoph Zoels focuses on people’s experience of mobile services and applications, and on using information technology to support simplicity.

As senior associate professor at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, he led the ‘Applied Dreams’ initiative — collaborative innovation workshops with industry leaders such as Sony, Hitachi, Nokia, Alcatel, Orange, Fiat and Telecom Italia.

Previously he was director of information architecture for Sapient (New York), and senior designer at Sony Design Center USA, responsible for strategic product development.

Zoels received his Master Degrees in Industrial Design from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA, and the Academy for Art and Design in Berlin, Germany. He has taught at Rhode Island School of Design, the Jan Van Eyck Academy (Maastricht, Netherlands), and Samsung’s Innovative Design Laboratory (Seoul, Korea).