Tobias Schreier.

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.

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.

Personally, I am really happy to have left Italy and Germany to study at MDX. I got exposed to a diverse community in London, which now helps me understand and appreciate cultural differences and its benefits.

In summary, this is exactly the way I want my startup to be and grow into, being experimental, collaborative and diverse. All the different perspectives, an international mindset and openness will help us to be innovative and build learning experiences for people.

Living in Berlin now, there is another thing I miss dearly from my life and the people at MDX: The Claddagh Ring. ;)

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mevolute is a combination of "me" and "evolute". Our natural learning approach is ingrained into our identity. At mevolute we are convinced that all human beings are born with the ability to learn and grow throughout their entire life. We observe that people do not make use of their natural ability to learn and that they experience a drop in learning at an early stage in life. Through our modern-day technology, we guide individuals as well as organisations to become these natural learners (again). So learning is seen as a life-sustaining process like breathing.

Why do we highlight a reason to exist? Not only due to inspiration from Simon Sinek do we know about the importance of a clear purpose. It is for good reason that since the beginning of mankind, philosophers have been asking the "Why?" question. By transparently communicating a reason to exist, we define a common ground as well as shared understandings and values.

Connect with Tobias: linkedin.com/in/tobsch

Check-Out mevolute: https://mevolute.com/

Article from #MDXPD: 5 Years On (Class of 2016), #MDXPD 2021 p.49-50