Case Study: University of Wuppertal enables students to build interactive React prototypes in a week with Noodl

Putting the power of code in the hands of Industrial Design students at University of Wuppertal

At the University of Wuppertal, Prof. Dr. Fabian Hemmert needed a way to teach 20 second-semester industrial design students how to build advanced interactive prototypes without prior coding experience. The challenge was to make programming feel creative and accessible for visual thinkers, while still giving students the tools to prototype digital interfaces for physical products.

Using Noodl, the students spent one week learning layout, logic, animations, and data, then applied those skills to build interactive interfaces for kitchen and household appliances. Noodl helped them deploy real React apps to their phones and create sound machines, coffee machine interfaces, and smart oven concepts; by the end of the week, all 20 students had completed working prototypes, with Noodl making the process faster, more motivating, and far less frustrating than traditional coding.

University of Wuppertal

Fabian Hemmert

Professor of Interface and UX Design