Senior Lecturer and Researcher

User Experience Design

 

Researching how interactive technology is increasingly weaving itself into the fabric of daily life and how artificial intelligence can be deployed in a responsible way is the main interest of Arnold Jan Quanjer. He holds an MSc in Media Technology from the University of Leiden and has extensive experience as a UX designer both in a commercial and governmental setting. He works as lecturer and researcher at The Hague University of Applied Sciences.

Broad Experience as User Experience Designer

 

His career as a UX designer started in 1999 at info.nl, a large full-service interactive agency in Amsterdam. He developed interaction and visual design concepts for on-line applications  and mainly worked for large corporate clients on complex websites.

 

Former Consultant Interactive Media at the provincial government of Zuid - Holland

 

Being employed as a consultant interactive media in the communication department of the provincial government of Zuid - Holland he advised how provincial policy can be communicated to the public in a user-friendly way via the Internet. Another important task was to direct external design agencies in the implementation of projects. .

 

Education

 

Media Technology: University of Leiden.

Electives as part of this master study: " Gender in Visual Culture " : Film- en Literature Studies at the University of Leiden. " Tactile Research Lab ": at the Art Science department at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague . "Design for Emotion and Subjective Well-being":  at Industrial Design Engineering at the TU Delft.

Web Design: University of the Arts Utrecht, at the department Art Media and Technology.

Lecturer Fine Art in Education, at University of the Arts Amsterdam.

Atheneum: Hervormd Lyceum Zuid Amsterdam.

 

Work

 

2009 - present Senior Lecturer and Researcher User Experience design

Employer: The Hague University of Applied Sciences

 

2003 - 2009 Consultant Interactive Media

Employer: Provincial government of Zuid-Holland, Communication department

 

1999 - 2003 Senior User Experience Designer

Employer: Info.nl