Jens Fischer is a German interaction designer & developer, working at Firstborn in New York City in the role of a Flash Developer. He is one of the mentors for Firstborn’s internship program and the host for the company’s “Group Therapies,” where designers and developers try to understand each other a little better.
Passionately combining technologies like Five3D, Papervision3D, APE, AMFPHP and the ARToolKit in AS3 to create innovative online experiences, Jens is well versed in finding ways to make the impossible happen. Prior to joining Firstborn he graduated from his communications design studies in Wuerzburg Germany with a diploma thesis about interactive video, which has always been one of his main interests and has proven extremely valuable on many projects for Firstborn already.