M.Sc. Design Engineer  ·  Stuttgart, DE

BENJAMIN
GÖTZE

Bridging Technical Precision, Digital Innovation & High-End Design across the full product lifecycle.

10+ Years Red Dot Award iF Design Award MedTech GenAI VR / AR
Benjamin Götze
Currently
Lead Designer & Researcher
Bauhaus Dessau / HS-Anhalt · Apr 2025 – Present
10+
Years Experience
Design Awards
€1M+
Design Project Scale
IDE
M.Sc. Degree
Career

Professional
Experience

Lead Designer & Researcher – Sustainable Design & OSH Process Standardization

Bauhaus Dessau / HS-Anhalt
Apr 2025 – Present

Leading the development of a Circular Sustainable Open Source Hardware (OSH) Baby Stroller — a research project serving as blueprint for defining global standards in modern, sustainable product development. Developing processes bridging agile workflows with strict industrial requirements (QM, ISO certification).

OSH Methodology Circular Economy ISO Compliance Sustainable Luxury

Strategic Consultant – Digital Creation & Design Operations

Independent / Freelance
2014 – Present

Awarded 5+ prestigious international design prizes, including Red Dot and iF Design Awards. Architecting phased roadmaps for integrating GenAI (Stable Diffusion / ComfyUI) and 3D prototyping into corporate development cycles. Solution design for digital creation departments.

GenAI Red Dot Award iF Design Award Stable Diffusion ComfyUI

Head of Office & Lead Designer

WILDDESIGN GmbH (Magdeburg & Stuttgart)
Mar 2021 – Aug 2024

Established Magdeburg branch as first employee, scaling it with full P&L responsibility. Founded the Digital Innovation Lab (DIL) integrating AI-driven tools, VR/AR, and XR into standard industrial workflows. Led the design team on complex MedTech projects generating over €1M in revenue.

P&L Leadership VR / AR / XR MedTech Design Lead >€1M Team Leadership QM Compliance

Masterand – Ergonomics & Comfort

Lautsprecher Teufel
Mar 2020 – Feb 2021

Developed advanced ergonomics and comfort analysis models for premium consumer electronics, utilizing human factors research to drive product-to-market excellence.

Student Assistant – Tutor & Workshop Management

Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
Apr 2018 – Apr 2019

Adobe Creative Cloud instructor for design students. Responsible for the model-making workshop and rapid prototyping facilities.

Adobe Creative Cloud Rapid Prototyping Workshop Management

Junior Industrial Designer

WILDDESIGN (Munich Metropolitan Area)
Jul 2016 – Sep 2017

Supported design development and conceptualization for international clients in the medical and industrial sectors.

Industrial Design MedTech 3D Modelling

Intern – Industrial Design

WILDDESIGN (Gelsenkirchen)
Aug 2013 – Jan 2014

Gained foundational experience in industrial design workflows, sketching, and 3D modeling within a leading design agency.

Expertise

Skills &
Competencies

Leadership & Business
  • Operations
    Design Lead (>€1M Projects), Forecasting
  • Strategy
    Change Mgmt, Roadmap Design
  • Process
    QM Standards, OSH, Agile
Creative Technology
  • AI Stack
    Stable Diffusion, ComfyUI, LLMs
  • Visual Tech
    Unity (VR/AR), Mixed Reality
  • Dev
    React, JS, C#, Arduino / Raspberry Pi
Engineering & Design
  • CAD / 3D
    SolidWorks, Rhino, CATIA, Blender
  • Prototyping
    3D Printing, Digital Fabrication
  • Focus
    Human Factors, UX/UI, MedTech
Academic

Education

M.Sc.

Integrated Design Engineering (IDE)

Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg

Holistic product development from initial concept to end-of-life.

B.A.

Industrial Design

University of Applied Sciences, Magdeburg

Studies

Computer Visualistics

Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg

Portfolio

Key Projects &
Achievements

Protonio logo
VR / AR UX Testing R&D Hardware
Co-Founder & CEO

Protonio

A platform for agile UX/UI testing in VR/AR and custom R&D hardware. Pioneering next-generation product testing methodologies at the intersection of physical and digital design.

Visit protonio.de →
Live OpenPromptLibrary screenshot
ComfyUI Stable Diffusion LLM Agents Open Source
Framework · GenAI Tooling

OpenPromptLibrary · OPL

A version-controlled, open-source library of production-tested prompts and agent workflows for generative design — covering ComfyUI node graphs, LLM chain templates, and Stable Diffusion pipelines. Built to enable scalable AI-driven creative production across industrial and digital domains.

Codeberg MIT License 2024 – Present
View on Codeberg →
Ongoing Projects
Live OSH Circular Stroller preview
Open Source Hardware Circular Design Sustainability
Design Engineering · OSH

Circular Sustainable Stroller

Open Source Hardware baby stroller designed from the ground up for circularity and sustainability — a real-world blueprint for modern product development bridging agile workflows with industrial-grade requirements including QM and ISO certification.

Visit project website →
OSH Directory Standard
MDR ISO CE Circularity Open Source
Standard · Certification

OSH Directory Standard

An open standard for transparent and consistent documentation throughout the entire development process — enabling certification pathways for MDR (medical), Sustainability, Circularity, ISO, and CE with a unified, machine-readable directory structure.

Awards

5× International Design Awards

Red Dot Award and iF Design Award recipient for outstanding product design and innovation across industrial and digital domains — recognised internationally for excellence.

Red Dot
Award
iF Design
Award