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I design where hardware and interface meet, so the seam between them disappears.

The problems I like are the ones that are hard to put into words and obvious the second they’re in your hand.

Industrial design is where I started, so I treat an interface like an object: it should have weight, edges, and a right way to be held. I’ve followed that instinct through an autonomous-vehicle cockpit at Mercedes-Benz, a tugboat’s controls, and the digital products I build now in Graz.

The thesis at Mercedes-Benz Design turned into six more months in the Sindelfingen studio, and most of that time went into a tool rather than a concept: a modular prototyping system where components plug into an ESP32 over I²C and get switched on from a web interface the board serves itself. The point was speed. A new interaction idea should be standing up and testable the same afternoon somebody has it.

Portrait of Lucas Licht Pradillo.
Lucas Licht Pradillo

Industrial designer & design technologist · Graz, Austria

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What I am doing at the moment:

I moved to Graz in July 2025 to design production software at LearningSuite: the learning platform and its sales-side sister product, SalesSuite. After years of concepts and prototypes, this is where I learn how an idea survives contact with production. I design in Figma, hand over to the developers with a brief, and QA what comes back. Real interfaces, real constraints, and a deadline that doesn’t move because the concept got more interesting.

It’s also where I’ve deepened the part of the craft my industrial-design background touched least, UI itself: hierarchy, states, the quiet consistency of a product people use every day.

On top of the UX/UI work, the two company websites are mine end to end. Every new page starts with me: I design it, brief graphic design on the visuals it needs, build it in Webflow (a tool I hadn’t opened until May 2026, the way Figma was new when I arrived), and sign-off comes from the company owners directly. Four feature pages on the SalesSuite side so far, a set of unlisted pages doing quieter work for lead generation, and most recently LearningSuite’s Intelligence page, the most developed thing I’ve made there.

Next to work I’ve got small personal projects going. Alongside Layers, I’m building Latch: a connected “rich-interaction” key holder for me and my partner that turns hanging up your keys into a quiet “I’m home, can’t wait for you to get back.” Curious?

Datasheet

Rev. 2026

Unit

Designation
Industrial Designer & Design Technologist
Discipline
UX · Physical & digital UI · Interaction · Prototyping
Origin
German / Spanish
Deployed
Graz, Austria

Field record

2025–
LearningSuite Flexco, Graz: Product development, UX/UI
2025
Mercedes-Benz Design, Sindelfingen: Werkstudent, Advanced UX Design
2024–25
Mercedes-Benz Design, Sindelfingen: MSc thesis, in studio
2021–23
LLP Renderings: Self-taught 3D, freelance product renders & animation
2021
Smart-Ship B.V.: Azimuth control ergonomics

Certification

MSc ’25
Industrial Design: TU Eindhoven (Research, Design & Development)
BSc ’21
Industrial Design Engineering: The Hague University

Toolchain

Design
Figma · ProtoPie · Adobe Creative Suite · ComfyUI
3D / CAD
Fusion 360 · Blender
Code
Arduino (C++) · Python · Processing · ESP32 / I²C
AI-assisted
Claude Code: I specify, direct and review

Protocols

Languages
German C2 · English C2 · Spanish C2 · Dutch B2

Full record

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