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I am passionate about designing products and services that meet the needs of users. I help Development Teams and Product Managers to think customer- and user-centered, and I believe that every team needs a deviant who challenges the status quo and asks, “Why are we even doing this at all?”

My design career started as a digital media designer at small and medium-sized digital advertisement agencies. I quickly developed a curiosity for design and human-computer interaction, usability, and programming, which led me to grow in these fields. After working as a User-Interface Designer at SAP AG responsible for the user experience of “sapsailing.com,” I became interested in the industrial industries and moved to evosoft GmbH (a subsidiary of Siemens AG) as a User-Experience Architect. Here, I pushed my colleagues to think more customer- and user-centric.

The core of my work is Design Thinking, which combines usability, feasibility, and marketability. When working on a project, I always analyze the benefits for people, technological feasibility, and economic marketability in collaboration with product managers, customers, and software architects. I found a great resource on YouTube that explains the core of Design Thinking for Non-Designers, and I highly recommend it.

I strongly believe in co-design and co-creation, which bring people together with different mindsets to create highly innovative products and services. Working in cross-functional environments with customers and technical experts is the best way to achieve this.

It’s fun to experiment with design decisions, but shipping untested designs can be risky and cost-intensive. To minimize risks for businesses, it’s necessary to continuously measure user behavior through running experiments and improving the user experience. Designing user experience never stops!

I also have a background in programming, starting with HTML and JavaScript in the 90s. I experimented with many different programming languages, including PHP, Ruby, Java, Python, AppleScript, and Bash. In the end, I found Lisp and Python to be great tools for my daily automation routines.

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