Fidel Thomet
Interaction Designer at University of Applied Sciences Potsdam
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolFidel Thomet is an interaction designer based in Berlin with 11 years of experience crafting data-driven visualizations and interactive experiences for media, public institutions, and cultural organizations. His career includes hands-on roles at Statistik Stadt Zürich, a Google News Lab fellowship at Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, a stint at Lucid GmbH, and work for the Aargauer Kunsthaus, reflecting a strong blend of civic data, journalism, and museum projects. He runs his own studio (fidelthomet.com) while contributing as a research assistant at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, combining practice with academic inquiry. Trained at Zurich University of the Arts in product and industrial design with an interaction-design focus, he excels at translating complex datasets into clear, engaging interfaces. Colleagues describe him as someone who fell in love with visualizing data—bringing a designer’s curiosity to problem framing and prototyping beyond typical UI polish.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts ZFH in Produkt- und Industriedesign mit Vertiefung in Interaction Design, Bachelor of Arts ZFH in Produkt- und Industriedesign mit Vertiefung in Interaction Design at ZHdK - Zurich University of the Arts
German, English
Github Skills (118)
rescale9
texture-mapping9
linked-data9
terminusdb9
dithering8
projection8
styles8
climate-change8
cms7
collaboration7
nosql7
graph-database7
database7
scenarios7
java7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
SensesProject/library
Feb 2019 - May 2021
Styles, components, and scripts for all SENSES modules
Contributions:183 commits, 6 PRs, 106 pushes in 2 years 3 months
styles-componentssensesstyle-guidestylescomponent-library
SensesProject/gems
Dec 2019 - Nov 2022
Dashboards to investigate data from learn modules modules in more detail
Contributions:14 PRs, 76 pushes, 18 branches in 2 years 11 months
dashboardsbusiness-analyticsdetaildata-visualizationdashboard
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