Brent van Herk
Professional Development
Over the years, I have experienced both personal and professional growth. Much of this was during my master’s in industrial design. However, I also extended my knowledge and skills outside of the standard curriculum.
Philips Experience Design
2024 - 2025
At Philips, I learned to systematically address complex challenges by analysing the entire care pathway and workflow. This deepened my design and research process, sharpening how I align user needs, clinical constraints and technological opportunities in healthcare contexts.
Teaching Assistant
2024 - 2025
As a teaching assistant of the Health and Inclusive Design Squad, I supported daily operations and communication. But I also gave feedback to students about their design and research processes. This role deepened my understanding of how to reflect on and articulate design reasoning, improving my own approach to research and design while helping others develop theirs.
Dutch Design Week
2024
At Dutch Design Week 2024, I helped organise and set up the exhibition on the biosimulator project. I coordinated communication between involved parties and took an active role in presenting the research to a broad audience. This experience taught me how to communicate complex design research in an accessible way.
Biomedical Engineering
2023 - 2024
The Medical Device Design courses in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Twente taught me to embed regulatory, usability, and implementation considerations early in the design process. I learned how to align design methods with the MDR, apply systematic risk and human factors analysis, and assess real-world viability through early health technology assessment, enhancing my ability to design responsibly within clinical contexts.
LifeTec Group
2022 - 2024
I started at LifeTec Group as an intern working on organ perfusion systems, but they quickly saw the value I brought with a design background. They offered me a student job, which allowed me to work on marketing strategy, platform development,
physiological experiments and serving clients. This experience taught me how to apply design and research processes in a biomedical R&D context.