Boris Müller
Interaction Design
Boris Müller is professor for Interface Design at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam and co-director of the UCLAB.
After studying design at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen (College of Art and Design Bremen), Boris Müller went to the Royal College of Art in London, where he graduated with a Master of Arts in Computer Related Design. His professional career has taken him to MetaDesign in San Francisco, the Institute for Media Communication of the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft near Bonn and the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea (Italy), where he worked as a researcher and visiting professor. Boris Müller has been a professor at the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences since 2004, where he played a key role in establishing the Interface Design programme.
His design work has received several awards like the German Infographics Prize in the “Science” category, the Excellence Award from the Media Arts Festival in Tokyo, or a Certificate of Typographic Excellence from the Type Directors Club New York. As part of his ongoing research, he is currently publishing a series of essays on interaction design and visualization.