Dirk van de Mortel interactive

cognitive designer · integration engineer

User experience is a combination of many areas of expertise, that's what makes it interesting (and diffuse). Most importantly, we make (and keep) the user happy, by using a user-centered design approach. I am active in that whole scope, that's why I am a cognitive designer.

Today that scope runs through systems rather than screens. As Integration & LLM Engineer at SPECTR B.V. I build the connective tissue for enterprise AI: document processing and prompt orchestration in Python, LLM and agent functionality joined to the services and data a business already runs on. Underneath it is the integration work I have been doing since 2019, and underneath that the interaction background, which is what makes me treat a system interface as a contract with explicit expectations and failure modes.

The through-line

Twenty-five years, in order: art school, installations, research, software, platforms. Walk the timeline, 1992–now →

Work

What brings you here?

It only changes what this site puts first. You can change it later, and nothing is sent anywhere.

Settings

No account, no server. Stored in this browser only, and gone when you clear your site data.

Appearance

This site is dark by default. Light and matching your device are both choices.

Text size

Scales the whole page, not just the body copy.

Motion

The home page has a field of cells that light under the pointer. By default this follows your system setting, which on most Windows machines means no trail.

What brings you here

Changes which menu items are on, and what comes first. Every page stays reachable by link and by address whichever you pick.