Introduction

What it is

Share Square provides you and your team a virtual pinboard. It allows you to easily organize all your project information visually. Furthermore, as it is shared amongst your team members it helps you to achieve awareness of what your team members are working on, helping you understand them better. We think you shouldn't underestimate the collaborative power of a pinboard.

How it came about

Early 2005 some friends and I were talking about how frustrating it was to keep your project information shared and organized. We were studying Industrial Design and were constantly working in teams but never had a decent place to collect and combine the digital stuff we were working on.

Now. Five years later there have sprung up a zillion collaboration, project management and file management tools. However, even though we tried a bunch of them none actually met the criteria for creativity and usability. Therefore I decided, for my masters' thesis, to research Creating Shared Understanding in Virtual Design Teams, and developed the Share Square concept. Share Square is different because it allows you to look at and organize all your project stuff visually. And it works blissfully simple.

- Thatcher

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The team

Thatcher Peskens (founder, integrator)

Thatcher graduated from the Delft University of Technology with a degree in Design for Interaction. He loves doing user research, interaction design and tought himself programming. He develops and guards the vision for ultimate usability.

Jasper Ruoff (back-end programmer, wiz-kid)

Jasper Ruoff currently works on his Computer Science degree. He started programming about the end of primary school and is also part of the TU Delft’s best Benelux Programming Award team and enjoying spending time on technical physics.

Rowan Heijsteeg (interaction designer)

Rowan finished her school of graphics design two years ago, but found it too 'flat'. She understood that it's all about interaction. She is now working on her Interaction Design degree from the Utrecht School of the Arts in Hilversum.

Jotte de Koning (business developer)

Jotte brings in a different perspective. Educated and trained in strategic product design and service design she understands how markets are made out of people. She works on communicating Share Square as a service ánd Share Square as a business.

Antonis Sgouros (web application developer)

Antonis is wrapping up his gradation project on Computer Engineering on the TU Delft. He is a linux lover and prefers python and vim over anything else. —Maybe with the exception of the weather in Greece?

Björn Vermeule (front end developer)

Bjorn studies information technology at the Hogeschool Rotterdam and used to develop things in .NET and MVVM in his spare time. With Share Square he is now has found a way to combine work and leasure, tying and retying the pinboard front-end core.

Robin Franken (front end developer)

Robin also studies intormation technology at the Hogeschool Rotterdam. Already from his youngest age he knew he wanted to do things with computers. He is the kind of guy that picks things up with two hands. With Share Square he works on front-end code.

Marco Cova (back-end developer)

Marco 'the Italian' finished his TU Delft Computer Engineering master. He graduated in mobile communication networks. Besides working on Share Square's conversion services, he is now actually testing the use of Share Square, by moving around Europe (now London), while working in the team..

You?

Partner

Share Square is looking for someone who is smart, accurate and committed to make a difference in the world; someone with a background in business administration, or experience with business development, a leader with a network.

The function requires the person to deal with customers: give presentations, close deals, set up terms and contracts. Talk to investors: understand the people, the contracts and the finance. Communicate: work with internal and external people for marketing and communication. Experience in a start-up environment is a pre, but experience with software development in not required.

Marketing & communication

Share Square is looking someone to plan and manage the market introduction. On a short term this will include organizing a number of BETA projects, including one at the TU Delft. Other responsibilities include communicating to and with (potential) users through the press, our blog, social media etc.

Job size and experience required can both be discussed. The most important requirement is a creative pro-active mentality. Getting things done is natural for you. Experience with software development is not required, but experience with design, marketing or otherwise creative industries is a pre.

This function needs to be filled in short notice!

Graduation project - Design for Interaction

Developing something entirely new for collaboration brings many new design challanges.

This is a position for the analysis of current use of Share Square, and the design of new and improved interactions with the interface.

Graduation project - Innovation Management

We are looking for a student in the field of Strategic Product Design / Innovation Management. We are currently writing a graduation assignment for a research on “The effect of shared collaborative workspaces on design team performance”.

Interns

There are several (graduation)-internship possibilities, depending on your background; ranging from programming to communication

From February onwards we are looking for:

• A talented C# developer intern
• A talented interaction / interface design intern

Our office is located in the YES!Delft incubator in Delft. It includes lots of cool, inspirational, and entrepeneural people.

Interested, want to learn more?
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