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Brunel designers at MEX, March 2015
MEX works with Brunel University to partner promising final year design students with professional facilitators during the MEX creative sessions. The Brunel designers work alongside the facilitators by assisting with preparation, contributing ideas to the running of the workshops and helping their teams visualise results for presentation.

"I am consistently impressed by the abilities and efforts of the Brunel design teams at MEX. They add an extra dimension to the creative sessions by introducing fresh ideas and helping teams distill results into meaningful presentations. It is a demanding role, with pressure to deliver complex ideas in a short amount of time. As a result, the achievements of the Brunel designers are frequently cited in the feedback we receive from our professional facilitators and participants, leading to long-standing partnerships as mentors and future employers."
-- Marek Pawlowski, Founder, MEX
James Atkins
James Atkins
Interested in: An understanding of users' motivation when using products and trends around how an experience can be enhanced by attending to these desires.

Hoping to learn: How users' perceptions and experience of a product are defined largely by the way they interact with it, not just the functions it provides..

Dream job: To work within a design consultancy or company to develop products which use technology to connect with people in unique ways.

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Andrew Carson
Andrew Carson
Interested in: Understanding how digital technology can shape the future of design.

Hoping to learn: Improving user interaction through user experience, emerging technologies and understanding the psychology of the user..

Dream job: Working alongside a team which pushes design to aid the user, potentially focusing on intuitiveness and performance.

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Arina Fjodorova
Arina Fjodorova
Interested in: How we can diversify the experience through various interaction design techniques.

Hoping to learn: Future interfaces, personalisation of user experience, visual communication..

Dream job: Creative Designer in a design or branding agency.

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Rachel Green
Rachel Green
Interested in: How to create exceptional user experiences through interaction.

Hoping to learn: Technology trends and how they can be applied to human-centred design, namely within the medical sector..

Dream job: To work for a company producing commercially viable medical products.

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Joanne Hinsley
Joanne Hinsley
Interested in: Bridging the digital to the physical world and also what are the up-coming trends in the user experience sector.

Hoping to learn: How brands are adapting and creating strategic plans to shape their businesses to design user experiences on every platform, giving them the tools to engage with the increasing amount of 'connected' consumers..

Dream job: To project manage large scale design projects which create seamless and memorable user experiences for influential brands.

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Lauren Mayor
Lauren Mayor
Interested in: New ways to emotionally connect people to products and technologies.

Hoping to learn: Human-centred design, semiotics, furniture and toy design..

Dream job: To be a designer at Disney or Mattel.

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Richard Oetiker
Richard Oetiker
Interested in: Techniques for becoming a faster and more creative conceptual designer through learning the core fundamentals.

Hoping to learn: Conceptual art and design, graphic communication of ideas and integration with technology..

Dream job: Working in the entertainment industry as a concept designer.

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Dominic Smith
Dominic Smith
Interested in: How to make meaningful and valuable product experiences.

Hoping to learn: The motivations and past experiences that influence an individual's interaction with a product and how design can play a role in improving the whole experience..

Dream job: Product designer for a design consultancy.

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Michael Steel
Michael Steel
Interested in: Diversifying technology applications and creating new user experiences.

Hoping to learn: Structural design, integrated technology, user perceptions and physical innovation..

Dream job: Something technically challenging to stretch my abilities and skills as a creative design thinker.

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Yuko Tsuda
Yuko Tsuda
Interested in: Creating seamless intuitive experiences that flow across different media.

Hoping to learn: UI design, personalised user experiences, packaging and graphic design..

Dream job: Not completely sure yet. Something I'm happy and passionate about!

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Emily Tulloh
Emily Tulloh
Interested in: How technology can be integrated to give satisfying experiences to the layperson.

Hoping to learn: Enhancing user experience, changing user behaviour and inclusivity of technology..

Dream job: Working at the intersection of design and people: co-creating and driving social change.

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Charles Walter
Charles Walter
Interested in: New gaps in the market which technology can fill and how can we design for these markets?

Hoping to learn: Product design analysis (taking things apart!) and interaction design - how users relate to products and environments..

Dream job: Designing and developing products for specific users, which enable them to have a better and simpler way of life.

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