Jasper Kense

Profile

My passion lies in the intersection of design and development. I have a strong technical foundation professionally and personally. I tend to spend most of my free time programming, a passion I've had most of my life. I prefer action over words, and enjoy diving in and spending time prototyping and testing.

Education

• MSc. Design for Interaction & MSc. Strategic product design (2020-2022)
  Technical University Delft
  Specialisation in UXR, design methodology and digital design. Courses on prototyping, smart products and machine learning.
• BSc. Industrial design engineering (2015-2019)
  Technical University Delft
  Specialisation in industrial design and software design. Courses on entrepreneurship and software development.

Work experience

• Founder, Leapfrog (2023 - ongoing)
  Founder & developer of my own AI-driven design tool Leapfrog. Leapfrog is an AI-first user research synthesis tool for research teams to reduce time-to-insight.
  GCP, Typescript, NextJS, React, Node
• User experience designer at coeo incasso (2023 - ongoing, part-time Freelance, Rotterdam)
  First hired to implement design proposals from thesis, but later evolved to general designer for communication-related projects. From research to design delivery. Most projects focus on digital communication.
  Blender, Solidworks, Unity3D
• Design researcher at Chemistry team (2023-ongoing, part-time Freelance, EMEA & Singapore, 90% Remote)
  Design researcher at Chemistry team on the Europe team for clients in the EMEA region. Most projects revolved around research & design projects in the healthcare sector.
• Design engineer at Aerlabs (2019, internship, Delft)
  Front-end development and UX design internship at an Aerospace noise startup. The project was to build an interactive Mapbox integration on their sensor suite.

Hard skills

• Development: GCP, Typescript, NextJS, React, Node
• 3D modelling: Blender, Solidworks, Unity3D
• Design & prototyping tools: Figma, Adobe Suite, Arduino, RPi, AxureRP

Soft skills

• Project management, team work, organisational and analytical, loyal, design thinking

Languages

• Dutch (native)
• English (fluently, speaking, reading, writing, C2)
• Italian (intermediate, speaking, reading, A2/B1)
• French, German, Spanish (minimal, A1)

Academic publications

• Chapter on the implications of AI on UXR (Springer publication, expected last quarter 2024)
  This publication was an initiative from SAP. I have been invited to write a chapter for their upcoming publication on AI.
• Thesis (internally developed with coeo incasso) (2022, January - November, Rotterdam)
  Thesis subject: Research and design for an inclusive debt trajectory for vulnerable groups.

Personal interests

• Cultural enthusiast, traveller, amateur cook, amateur writer, history geek and boulderer.