Mike Kirk Andersen is a Interaction Designer at IDEO's Toylab, his goal in design is to create engaging, meaningful and useful experience across digital and physical products. He loves working in multidisciplinary teams and believes it's an essential ingredient for creating creativity.
Mike holds a Master of Fine Arts in Interaction Design from Umeå Institute of Design in Sweeden and an Engineering degree also in Interaction Design from the University of Southern Denmark. Both educations have a strong focus on Human centred design and the intersection between digital and physical products.
Prior to joining IDEO, Mike has worked in several places and industries ranging from design research to toys to healthcare, latest he worked and wrote his Master thesis at LEGO in Denmark where he designed connected toys and IoT toys in LEGO's Future Lab.