Boris Müller

Boris Müller is Professor of Interaction Design in the Interfacedesign program at the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences. He works as a practical designer as well as a researcher and theoretician. He has received numerous international awards for his design work. He regularly publishes articles on design topics that reach a wide audience.

After studying design at the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen, he went on 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 Fraunhofer Institute for Media Communication near Bonn, Germany, and the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Italy, where he worked as a researcher and visiting professor.

Since May 2004, Boris Müller has been a professor at the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences, where he was one of the main initiators of the Interfacedesign program. In collaboration with Prof. Dr. Marian Dörk, he founded the research group »Urban Complexity Lab« in 2015 and leads a number of research projects at the intersection of data visualization and interface design.