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Professor

Prof. Dr. Katharina Bredies

Professorship for User Experience Design, Design Theory and Design Research

E-Mail: katharina.bredies@mobile-university.de
Phone: +49 7371 9315-0
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About me

About me

Academic Career

Doctorate in Philosophy (Design Sciences): ‘Use as Design. On an Underestimated Form of Design,’ Braunschweig University of Art

Studied integrated design in Bremen at the University of the Arts 

Professional Career

Professor of User Experience Design, Design Theory and Design Research at SRH Distance Learning University, Riedlingen (Germany)

Professor of Interaction Design at IU International University GmbH, Bad Reichenhall (Germany)

Head of the Connected Textiles research group, Design Research Lab, Berlin University of the Arts

Postdoctoral researcher in the project ‘Design, Textiles and Sustainable Development’, University of Borås, Sweden

Research assistant, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Berlin

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I have contributed to these publications



  • Bredies, K. (2026). Öfter mal nichts Neues. In T. Bieling, U. Brandes, M. Christensen, & W. Jonas (Eds.), Nutzen statt Besitzen. Michael Erlhoff revisited (pp. 79–90). Birkhäuser.
  • Bredies, K. (2025). Empfindliche Grenzobjekte—Elektronische Funktionskleidung als produktive Hybride. In T. Rohde & T. Schwer (Eds.), Textilien des Erfolgs. Über Design, Zwecke und Eigenschaften bei Funktionsbekleidung. avedition.
  • Bredies, K. (2025). Wann wird Design zu Forschung? Gestalterisches Forschen, 11, 138–151.
  • Gowrishankar, R., Bredies, K., & Ylirisku, S. (2017). A Strategy for Material-Specific e-Textile Interaction Design. In S. Schneegass & O. Amft (Eds.), Smart Textiles. Fundamentals, Design and Interaction (pp. 233–257). Springer.
  • Joost, G., Bredies, K., Christensen, M., Conradi, F., & Unteidig, A. (Eds.). (2016). Design as Research. Positions, Arguments, Perspectives. Birkhäuser de Gruyter.
  • Bredies, K. (2016). Gegenstand und Gebrauch. In T. H. Schmitz, R. Häußling, C. Mareis, & H. Groninger (Eds.), Manifestationen im Entwurf. Design – Architektur – Ingenieurswesen. Transcript.
  • Bredies, K. (2015). Strange Shapes and Unexpected Forms: New Technologies, Innovative Interfaces and Design-in-Use. Design Issues, 31(1), 48–52. doi.org/doi:10.1162/DESI_a_00308
  • Bredies, K. (2014). Gebrauch als Design. Über eine unterschätzte Form der Gestaltung. Transcript. www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-2880-7/gebrauch-als-design
  • Bredies, K. (2013). The Trademan’s Door to the Ivory Tower: Doing Research as Just Another Kind of Practice. In T. Engels-Schwarzpaul & M. A. Peters (Eds.), Of Other Thoughts: Non-Traditional Ways to the Doctorate. A Guidebook for Candidates and Supervisors (pp. 47–50). Sense. 9789462093164
  • Bredies, K., Chow, R., & Joost, G. (2010). Addressing Use as Design: A Comparison of Constructivist Design Approaches. The Design Journal, 13(2), 156–179.
  • Bredies, K. (2009b). Unready-Making Artefacts for Open Interpretation. Questions, Hypotheses and Conjectures. DRN Conference 2008.

Research and Teaching Profile

  • User experience design, user interface design, service design
  • Design theory, design methodology, creativity techniques
  • Research through design
  • Tactile user interfaces, smart materials, smart textiles, ubiquitous computing

Others

  • Member of the German Society for Design Theory and Research (DGTF)