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Paul Sommersguter

Paul Sommersguter • UX • Concept • Music • Joy

The elements of my work.

UX, Concept, Music, Joy.

Hello, my name is Paul Sommersguter, and I create digital experiences. I am a seasoned UX designer from Vienna, Austria.

As a big-picture-centric, concept-driven, and music-enthusiastic problem solver, there are countless ways for fruitful collaboration: Whether you need a sparring partner to develop and refine ideas, desire to discuss your digital strategy, or strive to turn your ideas into actual audiovisual, interactive, participatory, and enjoyable experiences – we'll figure it out together. Just say hi.

Work Experience and Projects

2017 – 2021 • UX Design and Project Management for

Austrian National Library – Crowdsourcing Initiative

Employer

Austrian National Library, Digital Library / Research & Development

Software Development, Concept

Stefan Frühwirth

UX Design, Project Management, Concept

Paul Sommersguter

Project Link

https://crowdsourcing.onb.ac.at/

Considerate and empathetic design is central for participatory initiatives, and as such, these new initiatives are a vast field for engaging UX and product design.

Since 2017, I have been employed as a member of the R&D department's project team that established a custom-made crowdsourcing web application at the Austrian National Library. It features a modern, engaging user interface and invites everybody to contribute their knowledge for future generations in various tasks.

2013 – 2016 • UX Design and Project Management for

ILLUSTREE – Great User Experiences

Employer

ILLUSTREE Great User Experiences GmbH

Studio Website

https://www.illustree.at/

ILLUSTREE is an award-winning Viennese studio known for meticulously designed user experiences. During three years, I had the opportunity to work for national and international clients, small companies, and big corporations alike, and as such, earn my chops.

As part of the core UX design team, I contributed to every step of the UX design process. Examples include project analysis, wireframes, UX concepts, visual designs, interaction designs, development support, test facilitation, quality assurance, and project management.

2020 • Cover Artwork Design

Can I Say – Flood

Artwork

Moritz Resl, Paul Sommersguter

Band Website

https://www.canisay.net/

Can I Say is an alt-rock/grunge band from Vienna, Austria, that I happen to play bass and sing in. For the band's new EP called "Flood", I had the pleasure to work with long-time collaborator and good friend Moritz Resl. We designed the cover artwork for the vinyl, CD, and digital versions.

Red and green-ish, glitchy cover artwork of Can I Say's 2020 EP, called Flood
2016 • Cover Artwork Design

Can I Say – In Your Arms

Artwork

Moritz Resl, Paul Sommersguter

Band Website

https://www.canisay.net/

For Can I Say's 2016 debut-album "In Your Arms", Moritz Resl and I designed the CD and digital cover artwork.

Blue-ish, dark cover artwork of Can I Say's 2016 LP, called In Your Arms
2015 • Visual Installation

Monolith

Commission

Checkpointmedia for Raiffeisenhaus Wien GesBr

Concept, Production, Project Management

Checkpointmedia GmbH

Design, Development, Photography, Video

Moritz Resl, Paul Sommersguter

More Information

https://process.studio/works/monolith/

Monolith is a permanent four meters tall visual installation in the entrance hall of an energy-efficient skyscraper right by Vienna’s Donaukanal river. Sensors measure the building’s consumption and production of energy throughout the year.

Monolith is an animated, generative visual artwork being fed sensor data from its heating, cooling, electricity consumption, and photovoltaic energy. By comparing the data for day and night, winter and summer, as well as warm and cold cycles, potentially endless visual variations are generated.

The installation Monolith's visual chapter cooling shows various colorful blobs of different shapes and sizes, in blue-ish grey.
2013 • Master's Thesis – Interaction Design

Interaction Design for the Blind

Written by

Paul Sommersguter

Supervisor

Peter Purgathofer


The goal of my Master's Thesis, submitted at the Institut für Gestaltungs- und Wirkungsforschung at Vienna University of Technology, was to help blind students to learn map reading by using state-of-the-art multi-touch gestures and also audio and tactile feedback.

As popular map services are almost exclusively intended for the visual sense, the blind and visually impaired are often excluded from the constantly growing sources geolocated information. In this day and age, map reading is of particular significance for blind children.

The main result of the Master's Thesis was a gesture language reflecting that blind people interact distinctly different from sighted users when using touch devices.

A braille-printed sheet of paper shows functions as a tactile representation of a city and aims to enable the blind and visually impaired to read maps.

Key Areas

1

UX-focused

A UX designer needs to speak, listen, and interact in different languages: product design, development, marketing, and the user. With UX being my core discipline, I am optimistic that I can guide you from the first steps of collecting requirements through to the product launch and beyond.

2

Concept-driven

Concept work is hard. In fact, it can be so hard that people tend to give up too early. Yet, it lays the sound foundation for everything else that comes later. So: think things through, keep future developments in mind, look at the big-picture, but don't overlook the details. Let's get it right from the start.

3

Music-loving

To me, music is a constant source of inspiration and a huge part of my life. I love to write songs, perform them live, and I do enjoy band life. Whenever appropriate, I'll try to connect to this space in my design work. Consequently, music-related UX design is my passion. So let's start a fire and get things done.

4

Joy-inducing

It's a joy to design digital artifacts that people enjoy and remember. I attempt to understand the users' needs, surprise them, make them laugh – or even better – smile. This is hard work, and getting it done usually takes a team effort. So let's enjoy the process, and celebrate what we create together.

Contact and Imprint

Paul Sommersguter
UX, Concept, Music, Joy.

Schottenfeldgasse 82/19
1070 – Vienna
Austria