Nina Vöge

‘Mind the gap’ is a design and innovation company. Our aim is to discover new opportunities, and turn these into clever and compelling new solutions. We are thinkers, designers and makers, and we are people who create for people. We believe in learning through experiences and experiments. Through our designs we aim to inspire you in playful ways, by offering new experiences which foster curiosity and encourage learning and growth. Mind the gap is based in Amsterdam, and was founded by Nina Vöge in 2015.

Help clients to create compelling and innovative technology products within the fields of e.g. smart home, enterprise communication, or navigation. Responsibilities are directing and mentoring design teams, consulting clients, conducting design thinking trainings, user research, expert interviews, creation of design concepts, and usability testing. Clients include TomTom, Collecting Colors, frog design, and German trains.

Leading a multidisciplinary design team for new product initiatives. Development a product strategy and design for a multi touchpoint user experience. Designing and supporting the implementation of all features for a first release. Research, interaction and visual design activities, creating mental models, application frameworks, scenarios, flow charts, wire frame flows, rapid prototypes. Working directly with various stakeholders to manage business and technical constraints.

Leading convergent project teams through different project phases: research, interaction design, visual design and implementation. Actively participating in research, interaction and visual design activities, creating mental models, application frameworks, scenarios, flow charts, wire frame flows, rapid prototypes. Working directly with various stakeholders to manage business and technical constraints, in order to produce usable, useful and desirable design solutions to complex problems.

Creation and realization of design concepts for different challenges and media, such as corporate identity, book covers, packaging, web design, motion graphics, and poster design. Clients include the German publisher Suhrkamp Verlag, The Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe (ZKM), and The Karlsruhe University of Art and Design (HFG).

The Creative Leadership program is an 6 month part-time executive program that helps leaders realize their full potential and accelerate the growth of their own enterprise. Participants include corporate innovators, entrepreneurs, and social change agents from all over the world.

communication design, new media, media art, film