'Meet the Designers' in the Philips Museum during the Dutch Design Week

Sandy Spaan (1971) is a highly motivated, passionate, and experienced industrial designer who focuses on color, materials, finishes, and related technologies and trends. Since graduating with honors from the Design Academy Eindhoven (1997), she has been stimulating, researching, designing, and developing CMF solutions. Since 1999, she has worked at Philips in various sectors, in a wide range of design-related disciplines, including innovation, development, production, and business strategies. She has a track record of pushing boundaries with great patience. She has a pragmatic, hands-on approach, is down-to-earth, and succeeds in realizing new implementations.

Jos Stuyfzand worked for Philips Design for more than 25 years as Senior Experience Director for Philips Lighting (now Signify) and Philips Healthcare. Leading a global research and design advisory team, he has delivered groundbreaking programs for industry leaders in healthcare and lighting in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. He was at the forefront of the development of the Philips Ambient Experience vision and led the global Ambient Experience design innovation and consulting team for Philips Healthcare. He is currently the founder & Creative Director at DesignIntangibles, focusing on design research and innovation.

Peter Skillman is a 25 year veteran of creative product design, innovation and team leadership. He is the Head of Philips Design. A rare combination of user-centered design, engineering and brand acumen, who has experience driving Cartography, Industrial Design, Mechanical Engineering, User Interface Design, and creative problem solving focused on building outstanding consumer experiences and cloud connected software platforms and is a passionate and compelling presenter.

Jens Andersson is a Swedish industrial designer recognized with 25+international design awards, with the rare combination of deep craft expertise and proven leadership at scale. As the designer of iconic products such as the Philips OneBlade, he knows what it takes to design products end-to-end that delight users and succeed in the market. But also how to effectively scale that drive and rigor across organizations - with extensive experience in brand licensing, acting as a guardian of design quality across thousands of products and guiding dozens of teams to balance usability, speed, and business impact. He’s a designer at heart and strategic leader in practice enabling him to inspire, challenge, and equip teams to deliver outstanding design outcomes that elevate both the brand and business.

Dr. Jon Pluyter is a Sr. User Experience & Clinical Workflow designer at Philips Clinical Informatics. Jon designs for the human factor, the user dimension in medical technology development. He focusses on research and development of smart data and AI driven medical imaging applications to improve complex clinical decision making. For example, to support teams of radiographers, radiologists and clinicians in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. He also builds bridges between industry, academic and clinical partners to innovate together, not for doctors but with doctors.

Luc Geurts is a Data & AI Designer passionate about shaping new innovations through co-creations with end-users and stakeholders. Through his background in Technology and Design, he loves moving a vision from initial sketches into realistic working prototypes that can be evaluated with users, while integrating results of different teams. In his work he focuses on exploring novel user interface paradigms, through crafting intuitive new interaction styles that bridge the gap between (Generative) AI applications and human experience.

Mike de Regt is an Experience Director and UX Design lead with more than 20 years of in-depth experience in multiple Consumer and Healthcare solution categories and design competences, with a strong foundation in User Interaction design, Innovation design, and Design for User Experience. I'm thriving when solving complex design challenges by creative power and positive energy!

Don Thackray studied Industrial design at the University of Northumbria in the United Kingdom. He’s worked for Philips Design for 37 years, starting in Eindhoven in 1988. He’s led various design teams in various businesses in the areas of Consumer Electronics, and Domestic Appliances, in the field of product design. currently Don is in the Product and Identity platform of Experience Design Central, providing support in Design Language systems, Sustainability design and Design processes, to all of the Philips design teams around the world.

Florian is a Creative Design leader who passionately envisions and delivers best in class User/Customer Experience driven innovations, which improve people's lives and take care of our planet. He strives to connect the dots between multidisciplinary teams, to strategically prioritise and to build exciting product portfolios. An ecosystem thinker leading the hardware transformation towards "circular economy ready" MRI systems enabled by platforming and modularisation, building new teams capabilities.

Eleni Soerjo is an award-winning Lead Product Designer at Philips Avent Mother and Child Care Women’s Health. Alongside her industry work, she teaches Design Visualization at her alma mater, Delft University of Technology’s Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering. With prior experience at WAACS Design & Consultancy and G-Star RAW, she brings a multidisciplinary approach to product design, driven by user-centered and meaningful innovation.

Laurens Schuurkamp is a creative data designer and a programming nerd who designs for the future and wants to implement that future now, not tomorrow. His canvas is creative coding combined with classic design. Laurens’ interactive visuals are meaningful, questioning, inspiring and a next level of data driven UI/UX.

Jeroen Raijmakers is an expert in healthcare design and innovation with 27 years experience at Philips Design. For the last decade he has been responsible for Front-end Innovation Design in collaboration with Philips Research and presence in Europe (Eindhoven NL), USA (Cambridge MA), China (Shanghai) and India (Bangalore). Application areas are Diagnostic Imaging, Acute Care, Healthcare Informatics, Connected Care and Personal Health. With a global team of 150 designers, responsibilities included public-private partnerships, clinical partnerships and international university relationships. He also 9 years experience as visiting professor at Technical University Delft faculty of Industrial Design Engineering.

Dirk Vananderoye has been involved in Philips' healthcare team since 1999. His focus has always been on translating Philips' brand identity into specific product propositions. He leads an international design team with a portfolio that includes MRI, CT, X-ray, nuclear medicine, ultrasound, patient monitoring, domestic healthcare, and healthcare informatics. He translates his knowledge of these subjects into added value, with a strong focus on the human impact on patients and doctors.

Özgür works as Senior Experience Lead Ambient Experience at Philips MRI, where he combines physical, digital, spatial, and game design to create seamless experiences for patients and healthcare professionals. With nearly 20 years in design, his work spans healthcare, consumer electronics, lighting, and personal care, earning recognition from Red Dot, IDEA, iF Design, IxDA, and Fast Company. His projects have also been featured at Dutch Design Week, National Geographic TV, and leading design publications.

Pei-Yin Chao is a Principal Designer with 15+ years of experience shaping innovative solutions that improve lives and drive business success. A hands-on design practitioner, coach, and innovation partner, he has a strong track record in developing UX strategies, leveraging design to create market differentiation, and building high-performing design teams.

During his 17 years at Philips, Pei-Yin has contributed across Lighting, Television, Personal Health, Front-End Innovation, and Image-Guided Therapy, with highlights including the inception of Philips Hue and the launch of the interventional applications platform IntraSight. His work has been recognized with 17 patents and 3 design awards.