About.

Designer who codes. Engineer who thinks about user experience. I bring logic and structure to complex design problems, hold high quality standards by instinct, and lead through empathy rather than authority.

When a framework does not exist, I build one. When a team needs alignment, I create it. Calm under pressure, deeply collaborative, and genuinely curious about technology, I make cross-functional work actually work.

Background

Fifteen years of design work taught me one thing above everything else: the best outcomes happen when you treat engineers as equals, not as a handoff at the end of the process. The last seven of those years I've spent owning end to end design for data intensive B2B SaaS analytics products, and that's where I learned to think in systems. When a framework doesn't exist, I build one, whether that means a design system built in genuine partnership with engineering or the information architecture that turns a complex workflow into something intuitive.

What sets me apart is that I speak both languages, design and code. I'm genuinely curious about technology, and I read engineering conversations with real interest rather than polite patience. That curiosity turned into practice: hands on prototyping, close technical collaboration, and a habit of getting into the code myself rather than handing off a spec and hoping. Design thinking and engineering logic have never felt like separate worlds to me; they're the same problem seen from two angles, and that's exactly where I want to keep working, at the intersection of scalable systems, code, and product strategy.

Right now that intersection is what excites me most. I'm drawn to AI assisted development and code based prototyping as a way to move faster from idea to working interface, and to shaping the agent first experiences and modern workflows that are defining the growing Design Engineer discipline. My commitment throughout has stayed the same: building the right thing, not just building things right, and increasingly, building it myself.

At a glance

Based in Germany
German native, fluent in English
15 years of design practice
Open to Staff & Lead roles

Skills

Design Craft
  • Product & UX/UI Design
  • User-Centered Design
  • Design Thinking
  • Large-scale Design Systems
  • Prototyping
  • Interaction Design
  • Service Design
Process & Strategy
  • Qualitative & Quantitative Research
  • Product Thinking
  • Design Strategy & UX Vision
  • Data-informed Design
  • KBQs & JTBD Framework
Collaboration & Leadership
  • Agile & Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Discovery Workshops
  • Global Stakeholder Management
  • Design Reviews & Critiques
  • Knowledge Sharing & Peer Learning
  • Coaching & Mentoring
Code & Build
  • HTML/CSS
  • JavaScript (AI-assisted)
  • Software Architecture (SOLID, SDD)
  • AI Agent Orchestration
  • Claude Code
  • Visual Studio Code
  • GitHub
  • Code-Based Prototyping
Tools
  • Figma
  • Dovetail
  • Amplitude
  • Hotjar
  • Miro
  • Notion
  • JIRA
  • Confluence
  • Adobe Creative Cloud
Humaneness
  • Leading without direct authority
  • Problem & Solution Focus
  • Adaptability
  • Reliability
  • Curiosity
Interests
  • Illustration
  • Graphic Design
  • Video Games

Experience

  1. Apr 2026 — Jul 2026

    AI Software Engineering Bootcamp

    DL School · remote

    Intensive, project-based bootcamp bridging product engineering and applied AI. Designed, built, and shipped Sproutly, a live AI-native product (sproutly-green.de). Extending my design practice into hands-on coding, software architecture, and agentic AI systems.

  2. 2018 — 2026

    Senior Product UX Designer

    GfK (now NIQ) · Nuremberg (on-site/remote/hybrid)

    End-to-end product design and front-end prototyping for a B2B SaaS analytics platform serving data professionals across complex pricing, market share, and trade data. Leading cross-functional initiatives with engineering, product, data science, and Customer Success, bridging the gap between design intent and technical implementation.

  3. 2015 — 2018

    UI/UX Designer

    .diff communications GmbH · Nuremberg (on-site)

    End-to-end ownership of client projects across web, eCommerce, and digital product design. Designed and coded responsive websites and eCommerce frontends. Independent project management and client consulting alongside cross-functional delivery.

  4. 2011 — 2015

    Art Director

    psbrands GmbH · Fürth (on-site)

    Led client work across web, branding, graphic design, packaging, and print. Managed client relationships, led design pitches, and coordinated cross-functional delivery.

Let's connect

Feel free to say hi.

Whether you want to talk design, code or AI, explore a collaboration or just connect, I'd love to hear from you.