Professional Reflections
TOBIAS SCHREIER Founder of Start-Up mevolute
The Product Design course at Middlesex University has shaped my life more than I could have imagined beforehand. Back at school I already had a desire for innovation and amazing product experiences. At MDX it was taken to a new level, being exposed to tutors and people that always stressed, “We do innovation for people here!”. This sentence is always on my mind when I do things. I had the chance to work as an Industrial Designer for various agencies in London and Germany, and eventually progressed into training and coaching on topics such as Design Thinking, Agile and Organisational Development.
What I’ve been trying to do from the ground is also what I learned at MDX: experimenting, prototyping and iterating. I remember the tutors helping us make our concepts and products tangible, and the value of communicating clearly.
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PRODUCT DESIGN Middlesex University Faculty of Science and Technology
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This is also where I spend most of my time now, building my own tech startup focused on learning. What I’ve been trying to do from the ground is also what I learned at MDX: experimenting, prototyping and iterating. I remember the tutors helping us make our concepts and products tangible, and the value of communicating clearly. This helps me now to not give up if an idea we’ve had at mevolute does not work, because we are just missing our user’s need or do not know the problem well enough. Doing this at MDX sometimes felt painful, but was worth it. At mevolute, trying to build the wrong product for a long time potentially means wasting money and putting the startup’s future at risk.
