Strategic Designer
Designing what industrial systems should become next, not just the screens on top.
Germany · US Citizen · Open to relocate
Experience
2025 – now
Paul Bauder GmbH
Working Student UX + Master's Thesis
Drones + AI for automated roof inspection
2024 – 2025
Mercedes-Benz AG
Working Student UX — HMI & in-car interfaces
2024
Mercedes-Benz AG
Intern — UI Design, safety-critical automotive context
2020 – 2021
Camphill Föhrenbühl
Voluntary Social Year — residential care,
young people with developmental needs
Education
2025 – now
M.A. Strategic Design
HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd
2021 – 2025
B.A. Digital Product Design & Development
HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd · Thesis grade: A
Collaborations
Stiftung Liebenau · Paul Bauder · Festool · Staedtler · Lebenshilfe Österreich
Outside Work
Most of my real thinking happens on a gravel bike, seventy plus kilometres at a time, alone and without a phone. The rest goes into analog photography and into my own side projects. The biggest one is Gravelwerk, a cycling brand I am building from the ground up. It is the place where I get to apply strategy to something I own, instead of advising someone else on theirs.
Contact
hello@lukecaporelli.com