Jan-Henning Raff (Dipl.-Designer)

I am the head of the department media design at the Medienzentrum (MZ) which is a central academic unit at the Technische Universität Dresden. The MZ is both e-learning service provider and research center for new technologies in learning.

The media design group supports e-learning authors in producing easy-to-use and easy-to-learn multimedia learning content. We also design frameworks that support collaborative and cooperative learning. Finally we do some classic design work, e. g. user manuals and documentations.

stations and methods in the designprocess

My research focus is on the «wild» (Levi-Straussian) practices of learners to organize learning materials in their «augmented reality» which spans from the written paper to advanced web based learning management systems. A short introduction is on www.dresden-forscht.de (in german).

In the Research Information System of the Technische Universität Dresden you will find my (in german)

• Research projects
• Publications

Further projects are on my portfolio site

• www.graffik.de

Is there a blog too?

• Skizzenblog.net is a visual blog for interaction design. We communicate by sketching!
• The TU Design Blog is giving advice on the Corporate Design of TU Dresden.

Experience

• 2007 to present: head of the department media design at Medienzentrum, Technische Universität Dresden
• 2004 research assistant at Media Design Center, Technische Universität Dresden
• 2003 collaboration in e-learning projects at Freie Universität Berlin; collaboration in multimedia projects at q-bus Mediatektur/Berlin for T-Com
• 2002 collaboration at bfz Bildungsforschung/Nürnberg in the joint project »GreTel« (EU support programme Leonardo da Vinci II)

Education

• 2001 master class with professor Alex Jordan at Hochschule für Gestaltung Berlin-Weißensee
• 1995-2000 studies in communication design at Hochschule für Gestaltung Berlin-Weißensee