• Ruben Rekker
  • Ruben Rekker

Who am I?

An artist? A musician? An engineer? I enjoy doing many things, as long as I can be creative.

I usually want to know everything, experience anything, and make the most out of every single day because life is just too short. Time is a funny thing simply because it is so powerful. In what ever way you think of it, its scarce, and must be used wisely.

Possessing a philosophy of being eager to learn has allowed me to become skilled in many areas, yet I continue to expand my knowledge and progress in different fields. However, these traits all have one overlapping strength in common: creativity. Creativity is a talent that can be enhanced with skill, experience and through collective learning from those around you.

It's incredible how traveling can enrich your mind with knowledge and cultural experience. I have an adventurers' blood running through my veins, attempting to understand the world around me. The most trivial, being that of nature and its complexity and how at the same time, manages to maintain perfect harmony (that is, if mankind doesn't mess it up too much). The simple, yet extremely difficult challenge in life is to find balance, and to find this balance in every day life.

Trying to create this equilibrium in todays' technology and processes are becoming far too complicated. Therefore it is the designers' task, such as myself, to determine what is important and what is not; to bring together the complexities of technology with user-friendliness, and concept. This is the strength of my interaction design. I see it as, The Art of Keeping Things Simple.