Kay Van Den Aker
Creative Technologist
Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolKay Van Den Aker is a creative technologist with 8 years of experience designing and prototyping multimodal interactions that fuse digital and physical systems. Currently at Google Research’s Envisioning Studio, Kay explores state-of-the-art generative AI and how humans can express intent beyond text, while also consulting on projects for brands like Chanel and On. Their background spans automotive and luxury concept work (BMW, Rolls‑Royce), haptics and hardware integrations, and teaching engagements at Stanford d.school and CIID, reflecting a practice that bridges research, craft, and storytelling. Trained in interaction and industrial design (MFA Umeå, BSc Eindhoven), Kay translates ambiguous ideas into tangible experiences by connecting diverse hardware and software. Notably, they run short courses and workshops to democratize multimodal prototyping, signaling a talent for both hands-on build and clear pedagogy. Based in the Netherlands, Kay combines studio curiosity with production-ready prototyping for industry and research alike.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Industrial Design, BSc (Hons) Industrial Design at Eindhoven University of TechnologyMFA Interaction Design, MFA Interaction Design at Umeå Institute of Design
English, Dutch
Github Skills (3)
camera10
openmv9
arduino9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kayvandenaker/portfolio
Dec 2021 - Aug 2023
Contributions:3 PRs, 72 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 8 months
kayvandenaker/portfolio-new
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:120 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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