Senior Product Designer & Team Lead based in Berlin.

Since 2010 I’ve been designing digital experiences for a variety of industries and fields.

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How I Contribute:

Product Thinking & Strategy

End-to-End Product Design

Data-Driven Decision Making

Iterative Improvement

Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Team Leadership & Mentoring

View my portfolio:

Heap Pump

Led the end-to-end product design for a newly regulated heat pump tariff market, boosting Lean UX with AI-driven workflows to deliver new tariff models and shape a new industry standard.

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Electric vehicle charging station

eMobility

A case study on how cross-functional collaboration, user-centered design, and AI-driven workflows created real business value — recognized by leading industry media.

Accessibility

Introduced accessibility as a company focus, led awareness talks, educated teams, and built a comprehensive catalog of accessibility guidelines to ensure long-term consistency across products.

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UX Excellence

UX Excellence in the UX team focuses on consistently embedding Human-Centered Design into processes, strategy, and decision-making. It includes raising UX maturity across the team through standards, collaboration, mentoring, and continuous improvement.

Bundesportal

A case study on applying human-centered design to redesign the Bundesportal — Germany’s central hub for digital government services — while elevating
UX maturity within the team.

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PizzaApp

Pizza App

As part of a training program, I developed an app where I carefully followed the entire Human-Centered Design process to apply the key principles of ISO 9241.

Gasag

I conceptualized and designed the GASAG website relaunch by driving user-centered improvements, conducting research to inform design decisions, and ensuring a seamless experience across devices.

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Other formats

I also have experience designing IoT systems, multi-touch and backend applications, and working as a design consultant.