Marco Plewe

Leading a team of 15 very talented cross-disciplinary designers and creative technologists from project ideation and conceptual development to project delivery. Organize and facilitate cross-team collaboration between design, engineering, user research and business strategy as well as between the different design studios around the world. Provide thought leadership with a long term vision for designing a holistic user experience across different platforms and touch points of the Mercedes-Benz brand.

Leading a team of 8 very talented cross-disciplinary designers and creative technologists from project ideation and conceptual development to project delivery. Organize and facilitate cross-team collaboration between design, engineering, user research and business strategy as well as between the different design studios around the world. Provide thought leadership with a long term vision for designing a holistic user experience across different platforms and touch points of the Mercedes-Benz brand.

Guided and mentored a vision team of cross-disciplinary designers and creative technologists. Explored new experiences for Mercedes-Benz with strategic impact for in-car displays, mobile devices, wearables, intelligent light, smart materials, interactive and transformable surfaces. Spearheaded and established tangible digital interfaces as a new design discipline within Mercedes-Benz. Collaborated with cross-functional teams on multi-modal interactions combining voice, gesture and gaze.

Strong contributor as member of the F015 core project team. Developed concepts for autonomous mobility experiences, worked on interaction and visual design, developed prototypes for evaluation and effective communication of the design vision and ensured correct implementation into the final product. Lead a small design team for demonstrating the Mercedes-Benz vision of a predictive user experience. IxDA Award 2015 shortlisted in category “Disruptive”.

As the lead designer for the digital user interfaces of the Concept S-Class Coupé I worked directly with software and embedded hardware engineers – from whiteboard concept stage to final polished visual design. I helped to establish a new collaboration model and best practices of interdisciplinary co-creation and the strategy of using show cars as proof of concept – designing and developing for real life automotive hardware in order to accelerate the transition of innovation from vision into product.

I helped implementing creative coding as a new design tool and design discipline for rapid prototyping and concept evaluation within Mercedes-Benz. With a small team of designers, engineers and UX researchers we established a new collaboration model of interdisciplinary co-creation and a human-centered-design process. Contributed to the Mercedes-Benz digital user experience strategy and design language.

I worked as the design lead together with marketing and engineering on concepts, wireframes and visual designs for the innovative implant software, company website, and marketing material for web and print. I helped establishing a new brand and CI guidelines for this fast growing medical start-up.

I mentored and taught a group of 60+ undergraduate students in Adobe Illustrator. I guided the students through the software from basic to advanced features and demonstrated how the software facilitates procedural design. The learnings were applied in weekly sessions in groups of 15 students using real life design problems which were accompanied by weekly design exercise assignments.

As a designer and creative technologist I worked directly with clients and developers and created concepts, designs and prototypes for innovative websites and digital experiences that pushed the envelope of established web standards. In a cross-disciplinary team I developed digital experiences for highly distinguished brands such as Mercedes-Benz AMG, Audi, Villeroy & Boch, Drykorn, to name a few.

Assisting employees of E.ON all over the world in solving any kind of problems regarding the IT infrastructure, hardware and software, such as CITRIX, MS Office, Outlook, Exchange, Windows, Blackberry, RAS VPN, Active Directory, LDAP, SAP, Remedy ARS, IBM Mainframe, video and telephone conferencing tools, identity Management, network printing, order management, asset management, VoIP, on-call duty, intranet, extranet

I mentored and taught a group of 60+ undergraduate students in Adobe Illustrator. I guided the students through the software from basic to advanced features and demonstrated how the software facilitates procedural design. The learnings were applied in weekly sessions in groups of 15 students using real life design problems which were accompanied by weekly design exercise assignments.

As a designer I worked closely with clients to provide effective visual languages for their brand systems. In an interdisciplinary environment I worked directly with fashion designers, architects and copywriters and developed concepts and designs for cross-platform campaigns, exhibitions, sports wear, and more for highly distinguished brands such as Continental, Red Bull, Jewish Museum Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Liebighaus Frankfurt, to name a few.

In an interdisciplinary environment I worked directly with fashion designers, architects and copywriters and developed concepts and designs for cross-platform campaigns, exhibitions, sports wear, and more for highly distinguished brands such as Continental, Red Bull, Jewish Museum Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Liebighaus Frankfurt, to name a few.

Assisting employees of E.ON all over the world in solving any kind of problems regarding the IT infrastructure, hardware and software, such as CITRIX, MS Office, Outlook, Exchange, Windows, Blackberry, RAS VPN, Active Directory, LDAP, SAP, Remedy ARS, IBM Mainframe, video and telephone conferencing tools, identity Management, network printing, order management, asset management, VoIP, on-call duty, intranet, extranet

communication in media based relationships, internet of things, physically augmented reality, emotion and empathy in interaction design

Interaction Design, Information Design