Another Boring Portfolio

Schlagwort: 2025

  • Primary school Ebersbach Weiler

    Primary school Ebersbach Weiler

    Commissioned work

    Weiler Primary School is set in an idyllic landscape of woods and meadows. Children here learn and play in a harmonious community. The school’s motto: learning with and from each other.

    Design for the Kids

    In 2024, Mrs. Teufel took over as the new principal of Ebersbach-Weiler Primary School. She commissioned me to fundamentally renew the corporate identity and website. Throughout the design process, both the teaching staff and the students were closely involved. The result is a brand identity that everyone supports – child-friendly and inviting.

    The focus on the students led to a special idea: the website is now created and maintained by a student editorial team. I laid the foundation for the WordPress site and shared the Figma design guide with Mrs. Teufel. This sparked a new school project where children can explore their creativity.

  • echo

    echo

    Lean Design

    Hate. Agitation. Fascist rhetoric. Fake news. Echo chambers. Bubbles. Pink washing.

    It’s terrifying.
    But defiantly not hopeless.

    echo is our design response to the shift to the right in society and the increasingly toxic use of social media. The media consumption assistant encourages critical thinking and makes news tangible in relation to the user’s own reality.

    Test the prototype

    The concept is simple: guided news reading. With echo, you can ask context-based questions and receive answers relevant to your own life. Whether on your smartphone, through audio, or video – the three modes help you capture content quickly. Understanding comes through the follow-up core questions, which actively build media literacy.

    A simple quiz captures the user’s personal context to tailor answers precisely to them, while remaining general enough to avoid collecting overly personal data.

    This makes echo a valuable contribution to a healthy democracy and strengthens political education across the wider population.

    At the NEULAND Award, echo was recognised for its clear focus on political opinion formation and its accessibility for a young audience. The jury highlighted the app’s consistent design approach tailored to this target group and its striking visualisation of the diversity of individual opinion-forming processes. They also praised the neutral concept, which helps young people find their own position in politically uncertain times.

    aed neuland award 2025

    Team

    Tina Puseljic
    Vivien Bertz
    Maceo Pohl
    Documentation (DE)
  • told

    told

    Bachelor

    Design shapes political realities. It influences who has access to information, rights, and support.

    The bachelor’s thesis Fluchtroute Design offers an in-depth analysis of the challenges refugees face within the German asylum process.

    Focusing on the interview at the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees – a key moment that determines the further course.

    An app designed to prepare refugees for this appointment. It helps them present their personal stories of flight in a structured way and in their own words – clearly, safely, and with self-determination.

    Test the Prototyp

    By combining individual storytelling with standardised data collection, a tool is created that serves both sides: it gives those affected orientation and a means of expression, while at the same time easing the burden on the system. In this way, the project demonstrates how design can contribute to a fairer and more humane asylum process.

    At the start, refugees can personalise the app. This ensures that everyone, regardless of cultural background, feels comfortable in the digital space we have created.

    We divided the interview questions into clear, logical chapters, so preparation for the main BAMF hearing can happen step by step. Each chapter begins with a short explainer that informs refugees about the topic, creating transparency and reducing power imbalances. This is followed by a personal knowledge management section that lets users record their experiences. From this point onward, all input is voluntary. Our aim is to support refugees through the asylum process, not to create another obstacle.

    Team

    Laura Meloni
    Dokumentation (DE)