With 12 years of design experience in both the corporate and consulting world, Martijn is the Senior Design Director at Artefact. Martijn has extensive experience managing multidisciplinary teams and designing consumer and enterprise software products for mobile, desktop, game systems and the web.

Prior to joining Artefact, Martijn designed the user experience for several products and features for Microsoft Office 2000, Office XP, Office 2003, and Office 2007. He then joined the Microsoft Windows team to lead the design of the Search, Organize and Communications features of Windows Vista as well as the user experience design of an innovative incubation product. Martijn’s designs are experienced everyday by hundreds of millions of people.

Martijn studied architecture and industrial design in the Netherlands and has a Master’s of Science in Industrial Design Engineering from Delft University of Technology. He holds more than 10 design and utility patents for software products, with many more pending. He was recognized with a Gold Industrial Design Excellence Award (IDEA) in 2003 for his design work on future user experiences for Information Workers.