Prof. Boris Müller
Professor for Interaction Design
Committees & Offices
Vice Dean – head of the Interface Design graduate programme
Phone
Location
Room
203
Office hours
Wednesday 10 – 11 a.m. (does not apply during the lecture-free period), registration via the Dean's Office
Main fields of activity (research, teaching)
Research topics
- Data Visualisation
- Interaction Design
- Generative Design
CV
- born 1972 in Berlin
After studying design at the University of the Arts Bremen, Boris Müller went 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 San Francisco, the Institute for Media Communication of the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft and finally the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea (Italy), where he worked as a researcher and visiting professor. Since May 2004, Boris Müller is Professor of Interaction Design at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, where he played a key role in establishing the Interface Design degree programme. Together with Prof. Dr. Marian Dörk, he is the head of the Urban Complexity Lab – a research group focusing on data visualisation and information design. His projects have received a number of international design awards.
Awards
- 2000 »Special Distinction« at the »Lucky Strike Junior Designer Award«
- 2001 1st prize in the student category of the EuroPrix
- 2000 »Excellence Award« of the »4th ACA Media Arts Festival« in Tokyo
- 2002 »Honourable Mention« of the rhizome.org Net Art Commission
- 2003 »Certificate of Typographic Excellence« from the Type Directors Club New York
- 2003 »100 best posters« (»100 Beste Plakate«)
- 2005 iF design award
- 2013 Information is Beautiful Silver Award
- 2014 German Infographics Award, category »Science«
Publications at FHP from 2018 onwards (according to core data set for research)
2025
- Tehilla Shwartz Altshuoler, Rachel Aridor Hershkovitz, Romi Mikulinsky, Boris Müller. Governing phygital spaces: Human rights by design meets speculative design. Internet policy review2025.
- Markus Kreutzer, Aya Bentur, Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler, Romi Mikulinsky, Boris Müller. Phygital Vocabulary: Speculative Terms to Discuss the Implications of Emerging Reality-Forming Interfaces. 22nd International Conference on Culture and Computer Science 20252025.
2024
- Boris Müller. The Disappearing User. 2024.
2023
- Boris Müller. The Death of Three Apps. 2023.
2022
- Boris Müller. Design Critique Culture. 2022.
- Boris Müller. Essays as Design Theory. 2022.
- Boris Müller. Tools Shape Our Products. 2022.
- Boris Müller. Virtual Typography. 2022.
2021
- Jan Distelmeyer, Sophie Ehrmanntraut, Boris Müller. Algorithmen & Zeichen: Beiträge von Frieder Nake zur Gegenwart des Computers. 2021.
- Cornelia Auer, Elmar Kriegler, Henrik Carlsen, Kasper Kok, Simona Pedde, Volker Krey, Boris Müller. Climate change scenario services: From science to facilitating action. One Earth1074-10822021.
- Boris Müller. Design for yourself! (Sometimes). 2021.
- Boris Müller. Forget Form Follows Function. 2021.
- Boris Müller. Ghost in the Machine: Designing Interfaces for Machine Learning Features. 2021.
- Boris Müller. Making SENSES: A Project Report. 2021.
- Boris Müller. My Problem With Figma. 2021.
2020
- Boris Müller, Frank Rausch. Menus, Metaphors and Materials: Milestones of User Interface Design. 2020.
2019
- Boris Müller. Drawing the Data Interface. 2019.
- Boris Müller. Type Casting: or: The Comic Sans of Errors. 2019.
2018
- Boris Müller. Balancing Creativity and Usability. 2018.
- Boris Müller. Strategies for Design-Science Collaborations. 2018.
- Boris Müller. Why Do All Websites Look the Same?. 2018.
2017
- Boris Müller. Bringing Design to Science. 2017.
- Boris Müller. Design in Four Revolutions. 2017.
- Boris Müller. In Defence of Intuition. 2017.
- Boris Müller. Picture, Depiction and Deception: Why Data Visualisations are Cultural Images. 2017.
Additional publications
Online-Publikationen
- Boris Müller veröffentlicht Beiträge zur Visualisierungs- und Designforschung auf seinem Blog.
Konferenzen, Publikationen und Vorträge (Auswahl)
2024
- Datavis-Meetup #07 »Climate Visuals« (Vortrag 9.1.2024); Digital Hub Industry, Bremen
- Datenvisualisierung (Vortrag und Workshop 24.5.2024); Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
- TED-Talk »Speculative Software« (Vortrag 6.11.2024); Hans-Otto-Theater, Potsdam
- Keynote auf der 10-Jahres-Feier des SAP Innovation Centers (Vortrag 27. 11. 2024); Potsdam
2023
- Sprecher bei der Ringvorlesung AG Infografik (Vortrag 30.5.2023)
2022
- Infografik und Datenvisualisierung (Vortrag 11. 11. 2022); Universität der Künste Berlin
2021
- Climate Change Scenario Services: From Science To Facilitating Action; Cornelia Auer Elmar Kriegler Henrik Carlsen Kasper Kok Simona Pedde Volker Krey Boris Müller — One Earth – Volume 4 – Issue 8, 2021
- Algorithmen & Zeichen: Beiträge von Frieder Nake zur Gegenwart des Computers; (Herausgeber Buchveröffentlichung); Jan Distelmeyer, Sophie Ehrmanntraut, Boris Müller: Algorithmen & Zeichen: Beiträge von Frieder Nake zur Gegenwart des Computers. Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos, 2021. - ISBN 978-3-865-99484-4
2020
- Co-Designing Visualizations For Information Seeking And Knowledge Management; Marian Dörk Boris Müller Jan-Erik Stange Johannes Herseni Katja Dittrich — Open Information Science‚ 4(1), pages 217-235, 2020
- Digitalisierung des Design (Vortrag 4. 11. 2020); Symposium »Generating Future«, Hochschule Düsseldorf
- Rules in Design (Vortrag 28. 11. 2020); SHOW Conference, Utrecht, Niederlande
2018
- Shifted Maps: Revealing Spatio-Temporal Topologies In Movement Data; Heike Otten Lennart Hildebrandt Till Nagel Marian Dörk Boris Müller — Proceedings of the IEEE VIS Arts Program, VISAP'18, 2018
- Datenvisualisierung als Software-Interface (Vortrag 23. 11. 2018); Konferenz »Software@Work«, Hamburg
- Bringing Design to Science (Vortrag 4. 5. 2018); Visualizing Knowledge Conference; Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland
2017
- Design zwischen Aufklärung und Verklärung (Vortrag 15. 12. 2017); Digital Design Learning Conference, Köln International School of Design (KISD), Germany
- designscience sciencedesign (Vortrag 03. 12. 2017); Future Unknown Conference, Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), Beijing, China
- Interaction (Vortrag 27. 11. 2017); Introduction to Digital Media, University of the Arts Bremen, Germany
- Design Research at the Urban Complexity Lab (Vortrag 04. 07. 2017); Symposium SYNTHESIZER, Universität der Künste Berlin, Germany
2016
- Culturegraphy; Kim Albrecht Marian Dörk Boris Müller — Leonardo, 2016
- Data Worlds (Vortrag 15. 09. 2016); zusammen mit Moritz Stefaner; ; SAP UX Day SAP, Walldorf
- Interfacedesign: eine unfassbare Gestaltungsdisziplin (Vortrag 10. 06. 2016); Workshop Politiken des Interfaces Brandenburgisches Zentrum für Medienwissenschaften (ZeM) Potsdam
2010
- Nagel, T., Pschetz, L., Stefaner, M., Müller, B.: mæve – Eine interaktive Tabletop-Installation. In: Sieck, J. (Hrsg.), Kultur und Informatik: Interaktive Systeme, 2010.
- »Messe Designers’ Open 2010 – Das Festival für Design Leipzig« Präsentation des mæve-Tisches. Dauer: 29. bis 31.10.2010, Leipzig.
URL: www.designersopen.de - Vortrag »Interactive Tabletops« am 29.10.2010, 17.00 Uhr im Hôtel de Pologne Auditorium, 1. OG, Leipzig.
2009
- »Recording emotions with MyInnerLife« Elisabeth Eichhorn, Reto Wettach, Boris Müller. Conference Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, 10–12 September 2009 in Amsterdam (Nl).
- »User Activity Display: Competition or Conversation?« Tina Deiml-Seibt, Larissa Pschetz, Boris Müller. Tagung »Grenzenlos frei!?« Mensch und Computer 2009, 6–7 September in Berlin. ACM, German Chapter (In Press).
- »A Conversational Model to Display User Activity.« Tina Deiml-Seibt, Larissa Pschetz, Boris Müller. 23rd BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction – HCI2009, 1–5 September 2009 in Cambridge (UK). ACM, New York, NY. (In Press).
- »mæve – An Interactive Tabletop Installation for Exploring Background Information in Exhibitions« Till Nagel, Larissa Pschetz, Moritz Stefaner, Matina Halkia, Boris Müller. 13th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 19–24 Juli 2009 in San Diego (US).