A Munich based automotive & product design studio that merges craft with tech.
Building design systems that set new standards for quality and efficiency.
Automotive and product design is the centre of our attention, with a broad scope around it.
Industrial design for cars, two-wheel products, consumer electronics, furniture and more.
Everything that extends the product beyond its physical form: apps, interfaces and digital platforms.
Design strategy that settles what to build, and why.
Bespoke software, AI models and pipelines, built to sharpen how design gets made.
experiences, made solid.
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We look into who the product is for and where it has to compete before anything gets drawn, and we settle the positioning and the scope while every option is still open.
Who the product is for, and what it is up against, before a line is drawn.
How the category is laid out, and what would make people choose this product in it.
What to build, and why, with the reasoning kept on the record.
Scope and sequence the whole programme can be planned against.
An idea gets explored in sketch and resolved in geometry, then tested in the real world. The pipeline lets us judge it fast, and carry the one that survives all the way into a working model.
An iterative back and forth between AI models and sketches, to explore the concept and then define it.
CAD takes it into real geometry, with the detail resolved on the model.
Design, functional and ergonomic models, physical and digital, before anything is committed.
We write the software that removes the slow step: pipelines, internal tools and AI models we train ourselves.
Our tool · Sofy
Sofy is our own software, and we work in it from the research at the start of a project through to the layout of the presentations and posters. Every project runs on custom models we train for it.
Market and user research, kept with the project.
References and directions laid out to settle a look early.
The design work itself, set up the way each project needs.
Layouts that suit the project, so a deck takes less time.
We bring the whole design together, specify it down to every surface, material and finish, and produce everything it takes to present it and to build it.
Renders and animations that show the product.
Decks and posters that present the results.
Design models or functional prototypes can be built.
The full package gets handed over, and we support the next steps.
YTEM brings together two complementary fields. We each have more than ten years in product, mobility, UX and strategic design, and we point that experience at the same work. The overlap is what lets us go further into a project than a studio that only draws the object or only draws the screen. We build our own tools where the standard ones fall short, and we shape the process around the work rather than the other way round.
Let's make it real! A product that excites people, a compelling strategy, a new system that inspires. Let's create it together.
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