Journal
In this section, you will find contributions and news from people or organizations who have worked with ukm4. It shows a list of selected projects from the coaching and consulting work. The entries are based on a voluntary basis and correspond to the guidelines of the data protection regulation. The entries are checked regularly and violations of the DSGVO are communicated, but those who uploaded the content are responsible for the legal security of their own data.

Family Communication
Family Communication Across Borders – Living apart from your family is not easy for everyone. The homesickness experienced by many often manifests as stress, loneliness, and depression in daily life. At times, some even experience anxiety over the possible...

Design Literacy
Design Literacy through Experiential Learning – It has always been a challenge for laymen to understand design. In a culturally saturated region like Kerala, there is always a resistance from the traditional cultural framework. This might be due to the wrong...

Groovr
Ecosystem of a City Car Traffic – A systematic approach to look at a bigger problem. Modern City life is filled with chaotic surprises in its day to day experiences. From the rush to office in the morning to race back to home in the evening. A major part of our daily...

Dialogues in Design
Master Graphic Design Workshop – This video was edited from footage taken by Rochester Institute of Technology's Massimo and Lella Vignelli Distinguished Professor of Design, R. Roger Remington. It highlights an international trip taken by design students. It...

Capitalism
... and the trap of materialism – Consumers in the late centuries face distractions while shopping which creates a detachment from what matters. This drove companies to capitalize over that distraction to make more profit. My thesis aims to observe the distraction...

Design Industry
Future of Design Leadership – The design industry has been changing. Design has become one of the core competencies for companies (Mozota, Borja, and Kim, 2009). As the business value of design is increasingly proved by research and acknowledged by the industry as...

Skills
What's your expertise –The studio class in the summer term of the International Master studies of Integrated Design developed a series of experiments based on the given questions. The students were grouped in 10 smaller groups each on a fit of their personal expertise...

ThaiPark
A park of stakeholders – This master thesis demonstrates how service design and design methodology can be successfully used to solve problems. Here in the case of ThaiPark – a park in a Berlin district whose Thai visitors very successfully offer Thai prepared dishes...

Welby
Emotional Voice Assistants – Welby is a voice user interface through emotional intelligence to support positive wellbeing. This work is an approach to emotionally intelligent language assistants, who still have little sympathy among users today. The work analyses...

Swisens
Digital particle detection – Swisens is another successful example of the university initiative and good cooperation. We were able to support the company by developing a detailed corporate identity as part of a student supported project as well as further meetings...

siworks
Fire safety and roof monitoring – The first official business meeting of siworks took place in 2013. Due to a doubling of the number of employees and the profit of a major project, the sole proprietorship was transformed into a joint stock company (AG).The founder was...

bcome
become yourself – As part of the project support for Smart-up Lucerne, Petra supported me and my enterprise "bcome" over several weeks with mentoring and tools in my rebranding process of bcome. We started by redefining my core values for my business and then...

E-Shirt
It's all on space – The purpose of this project is to provide women with a tool to empower themselves in a work environment with less opportunities for further development. Inspired by Amy Cuddy's research, who explains how High-Power-Postures can strengthen our...

Gender?
Stereotyped – More and more people are recognizing the way gender stereotypes are ruling and limiting our way of living. Considering that gender bias is defining the society, it is important to create a space for the discussion and awareness about the topic with the...

Connect
Non-verbal communication – Connect as a product evolved out of the understanding that monolingual travelers require a means to communicate with people in their host countries. Absence of Wi-Fi and cell phone battery being the catalyst, connect cards are the analog...

Health Care
It's Care Management – Research had shown that there is a high rate of error in dosing medication for inhabitants of elderly homes. The failures can occur during the daily dosing set-up of medication, the distribution and allocation of medication under time...