Frank Jacob (designer)

Frank Jacob (* 1966 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German designer. Since 2005 he has been Professor of Interface Design at the Muthesius Art College in Kiel .

Life

Following on from his training as a carpenter , Jacob studied industrial design from 1992 to 1997 at the Muthesius University of Art and Design in Kiel. During his studies, from 1995 to 1996 Frank Jacob worked as a scholarship holder of the Carl Duisberg Society in Tokyo / Japan at Milai Corporation, one of the leading Japanese design offices for transportation design and consumer products.

In 1999, Frank Jacob founded the design office Human Interface Design in Hamburg , specializing in the user-centered design of the operating quality of technical devices, software systems and interactive media.

In the 2001/2002 winter semester, Frank Jacob took over the professorship in technical design for the industrial design course at Muthesius University from Ulrich Hirsch. In 2005 Frank Jacob was appointed professor for interface design at the Muthesius Kunsthochschule in Kiel, where he has been responsible for the Bachelor and Master programs in Interface Design since then .

Frank Jacob is a member of the German UPA , the German Society for Design Theory and Research (DGTF), the Society for Computer Science (GI) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He is also an advisory board member of iCom - the magazine for interactive and cooperative media.

Frank Jacob has been a member of the "Inflammation at Interfaces" cluster of excellence since 2011.

Honourings and prices

• 2006 Best Session Award of the German UPA at the usability conference " Mensch und Computer " for the lecture and workshop:

"Affordances - product features that motivate use and how to design them"

• 2008 red dot award for highest design quality: "red dot: best of the best", category: graphical user interface
• 2009 nomination for the design award of the Federal Republic of Germany 2010
• 2009 Best Session Award of the German UPA at the usability conference " Man and Computer " for the lecture: "Usable Motion - The usability potential of moving graphics"
• 2010 iF communication design award , category: Product Interfaces
• 2010 red dot award for the highest design quality: "red dot: best of the best" (2 ×), category: Graphical User Interface
• 2011 iF communication design award , category: Product Interfaces (2 ×)
• 2011 Nomination for the Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany 2012 (4 ×)

Publications

• 2005 Article in the specialist magazine etz Elektrotechnik + Automation : - "The focus is on the user - usability in industry"
• 2006 Article in the specialist magazine ATP Automatisierungstechnische Praxis - "Review processes to ensure operating quality in the development of interactive systems"
• 2007 Article in the 2007 Electrical Engineering yearbook:

- "The focus is on the user - usability in industry"

• 2007 article in i-com magazine for interactive and cooperative media

- "Affordances - product features that motivate to use and how to design them"

• 2008 article in i-com magazine for interactive and cooperative media

- "The power of 'and' - about usability AND aesthetics"

• 2009 Article in i-com magazine for interactive and cooperative media - "Usable Motion - the ergonomic potential of moving graphics"

Web links

• Human Interface Design , Hamburg