Research & Education
Sharing knowledge – however little it may be – is important as it educates and motivates people, thus supporting them in achieving their goals. In my research I am looking for more efficient ways of giving feedback to mentees – while I am mostly invited to universities to talk about my entrepreneurial and product design experience. I also lead cross-disciplinary workshops.
University Courses & Lectures
Strategic Product Design with Versuni
2026 • MOME • course leader
Full semester course
The Strategic Product Design course, organized in collaboration with Versuni (former Philips consumer products) introduces first year industrial design (MA) students into state-of-the-art user research and conscious consumer product design. The project starts with delving into a specific new market/societal condition and ends with a well communicated product prototype for a specific target audience.
In-Car User Experience with Mercedes-Benz
2024- • MOME • course leader
Full semester course
The course focuses aims on widening the perspective of interaction design (MA) students from screens to complex spatial interactions in an industrial context. It builds on the idea of cars being moving supercomputers that could use the built-in technology to meaningfully improve user experience. We cover basic and relevant human factors, safety and usability questions and physical prototyping for an industry-level concept pitch. This course is organized and developed in collaboration with the Mercedes-Benz design studio in Stuttgart.
Competency Pilot (Compilot)
2022- • MOME • course leader
Full semester course
Competency Pilot is a curricular unit that supplements university design programs by improving self-directed learning and conscious study planning for students who study their main design subject in studio education format. MOME Compilot courses are electives, available for students of any program. The courses were most popular among industrial designers, craft students, design managers and animation artists.
AI course weeks
2022-2024 • MOME • course organiser
Course week course
In this period I organized several course week courses about emerging generative AI tools. My role was rather strategic and organizational, as I invited renowned international professionals (from Nike and Schema Design) and designed the course with them to fit MOME strategy and student interests.
Business 2 Design
2023- • MOME • lecturer
Full semester course
Business to Design is a compulsory core curriculum subject for industrial design BA students, providing basic business knowledge and skills for designers. As a lecturer, I am responsible for holding 1-3 interactive lectures in each semester about business planning, marketing and budgeting.
Micromobility
2023 • MOME • instructor
Full semester course
Compulsory core curriculum subject for industrial design (BA) students. As an instructor, I consulted with student groups of 3, and helped them in developing micromobility solutions for the city. Student projects included pet-friendly scooter, festival crawler and electric city bikes among others.
Innovative materials
2021 • MOME • lecturer and jury member
Course week course
This course introduced participating students with ideas and best practices to deal with cutting-edge new material technologies. Students had the opportunity to delve into the possibilities of innovative materials and develop concepts. In my lecture I focused on introducing main material categories and the most widespread application areas of such and best practices to decide what kinds of materials to use.
Designer Competency Development
2021 • MOME • Course leader
Course week course
Focusing on validating some of my doctoral theses, this one-week-long course offered participating students a quick overview and mentorship on their competency development. Each of the 11 students managed to find an area to improve their skills in. We then set up a personalized mini project in order to boost the aforementioned skills. The participants received a feedback radically different from the project-oriented feedback, and experienced competency-driven projects for study purposes.
Design Solfeggio
2016 • MOME • consultant
General foundation course
Design Solfeggio is the foundation course of MOME Design Institute – I was invited to participate as a mentor throughout this 8-week-long course, helping a group 8 students in solving the design challenges set up by their professors. It was a really interesting experience for me, and the students had good results in the end.
Walk on the Water
2014 • MOME • course leader
Course week course
This one-week-long project was focusing on designing a new public transport ship for Budapest. There were 4 teams, 5 people each, working on the designs. I helped with sharing the basics of ship design and a continuous support to teams throughout the design process. The winning design was realized as a scale model, and proposed to the city government and transportation authority.
University lectures
2014-2021
I was invited as guest lecturer in the topics of innovation management, entrepreneurship and applied innovative materials at NyME, BME and MOME.