freiberufler Senior/Lead UX/UI Designer, Product Designer & Strategist / Fractional Design Consultant auf freelance.de

Senior/Lead UX/UI Designer, Product Designer & Strategist / Fractional Design Consultant

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  • 85‐105€/Stunde
  • 10999 Berlin
  • Europa
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  • 05.03.2026
  • Contract ready

Kurzvorstellung

Design Lead with 14 years transforming complex enterprise challenges into elegant digital solutions. I specialize in discovery research, design systems, and rapid prototyping—with the technical depth to build what I design.

Geschäftsdaten

 Freiberuflich
 Steuernummer bekannt

Qualifikationen

  • Design Sprints
  • Design Thinking3 J.
  • Generative KI
  • HCI
  • Interactive design
  • Produktdesign3 J.
  • React (JavaScript library)
  • User Experience (UX)7 J.
  • User Interface (UI)4 J.
  • UX

Projekt‐ & Berufserfahrung

Design Lead
Springer Nature, Remote
9/2024 – 2/2025 (6 Monate)
Medienbranche
Tätigkeitszeitraum

9/2024 – 2/2025

Tätigkeitsbeschreibung

Design Leadership

Eingesetzte Qualifikationen

Generative KI, User Experience (UX), User Research, Designer

UX Design Lead
Telefonica, München
9/2022 – 9/2025 (3 Jahre, 1 Monat)
Telekommunikation
Tätigkeitszeitraum

9/2022 – 9/2025

Tätigkeitsbeschreibung

Hired into Telefonica’s UX Team to work on a global digital transformation project, focussed on building a multi-brand white label mobile phone service platform and integrated design system.
Working with colleagues from Europe and India.
Responsible for designing high-level patterns with the context of an atomic design system.
Lead various initiative to improve design processes and integrate prototyping tools (e.g. Protopie + Figma) into the way or working. Lead the creation of 1:1 to configurable prototype to allow all brands visualise how their product would look and behave while remaining in line with the core white label designs.
Designing various parts of the new customer signup journey for mobile/ Desktop across all of Telefonica’s sub-brands including, O2, Nettokom, Whatsapp SIM,
Including SIM registration, upgrades, self care etc.

Eingesetzte Qualifikationen

Design Thinking, Informationsdesign, Produktdesign, User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI)

UX Designer
Springer Nature, Remote
1/2022 – 3/2023 (1 Jahr, 3 Monate)
Medienbranche
Tätigkeitszeitraum

1/2022 – 3/2023

Tätigkeitsbeschreibung

Hired to lead the Discovery UX Design activities for several projects including
B2C dashboard / metrics product for researchers
Education development platform.
News letter sign up flow
Leading Design Sprints for various teams within the organisation as a shared resource.
As part of this work I was primarily facilitated workshops, developing prototypes, analysing user data and providing UX design consulting to senior program management.
Supporting Product Management to align stakeholders around product vision
Prepare Design roadmap
Facilitating workshops & Design Sprints
Preparing Wireframes, User Flows and UX/UI Concepts

Eingesetzte Qualifikationen

User Experience (UX)

Experience Lead
Publicis Sapient, Remote
12/2021 – 2/2022 (3 Monate)
IT & Entwicklung
Tätigkeitszeitraum

12/2021 – 2/2022

Tätigkeitsbeschreibung

Joined a development team to provide UI support as part of Discovery activities
- Developed User flows, Wireframes
- Created prototype UI concepts for user testing
- Refined UI designs in reaction to research insights
- Prepare Design System assets

Eingesetzte Qualifikationen

User Experience (UX)

Senior UX/UI Specialist
E.On, Remote
11/2020 – 3/2021 (5 Monate)
High-Tech- und Elektroindustrie
Tätigkeitszeitraum

11/2020 – 3/2021

Tätigkeitsbeschreibung

- Hired to lead the design on data monetisation innovation project within E.ON’s Data Science product incubation department.
- Provided to UX/UI design consulting to product managers supporting them to clarify their product vision.
- Prepared Project Design Work outline (project scoping, timeline preparation, cost estimations, deliverables, dependencies, risks, and requirements etc)
- Lead User Research initiatives (Market segmentation, Target user definition, recruitment, interviewing, insights report preparation)
- Supported product management with product pivot
- Prepared Prototype facilitated design feedback meetings among stakeholders
- Prepared and refined UI concepts in collaboration with other design team
members

Eingesetzte Qualifikationen

User Experience (UX)

Product Design Consultant
AJ&Smart, Berlin
11/2019 – 5/2020 (7 Monate)
Medienbranche
Tätigkeitszeitraum

11/2019 – 5/2020

Tätigkeitsbeschreibung

Hired for the B2B Design Sprint Team to deliver product, design and strategy consultation services to global brands
- Delivered Design Sprints, corporate training and other facilitation products
- Developed digital product concepts from concept to high-fidelity prototypes
- Owned the user research role of the Sprint delivery
- Facilitated Sprint workshops
- Advised clients regarding product design, development and strategy
- Initiated various improvements including role definitions, design guidelines,
product documentation, process automation which resulted in increased efficiency, alignment and consistency across the team and product

Eingesetzte Qualifikationen

Produktdesign, User Experience (UX)

UX Designer (Native-Instruments.com) (Festanstellung)
Native Instruments GmbH, Berlin
12/2018 – 12/2019 (1 Jahr, 1 Monat)
Medienbranche
Tätigkeitszeitraum

12/2018 – 12/2019

Tätigkeitsbeschreibung

Joined the web team to lead the redesign of the native-instrument.com online store, toward improving conversion
- Developed new design concepts
- Co-ordinated shared design resources
- Drove user research/testing and A/B testing
- Provided design consultancy to product/engineering for the NativeID feature
improving the sign-in experience across all NI subsidiary websites

Eingesetzte Qualifikationen

User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI)

UX Designer (Komplete Kontrol) (Festanstellung)
Native Instruments GmbH, Berlin
12/2017 – 10/2018 (11 Monate)
Medienbranche
Tätigkeitszeitraum

12/2017 – 10/2018

Tätigkeitsbeschreibung

Joined the Komplete Kontrol team to lead the design on the NKS Effects feature
- Lead the user research, UX/UI design, prototyping and testing of this feature
- Developed and maintained design systems
- Developed closed user-group (user-base from 0 - > 700 in 3 months) and insights
system which contributed to marked improvements in UX success metrics, test
coverage and availability of insights to product managers
- Advised product managers through roadmap creation and development of new
hardware and software product concepts

Eingesetzte Qualifikationen

Forschung & Entwicklung

Product/UX Designer - (Maschine) (Festanstellung)
Native Instruments GmbH, Berlin
6/2015 – 7/2017 (2 Jahre, 2 Monate)
Medienbranche
Tätigkeitszeitraum

6/2015 – 7/2017

Tätigkeitsbeschreibung

- I was hired to lead the design on Maschine's audio track
- Developed UX/UI concepts for Maschine SW and HW controllers
- Drove user research initiatives
- Co-developed the Maschine alpha user group
- Co-developed a Hardware/Software prototyping environment
- Drove the creation of Native Instrument’s first Design System

Eingesetzte Qualifikationen

User Experience (UX)

Zertifikate

Agentic AI
Udacity (by Accenture)
2026
Generative AI
Udacity (by Accenture)
2026
Designing and Building AI Products and Services
MITxPro
2026

Ausbildung

Master of Arts
Music Technology
2011
University Of Limerick

Über mich

Design Lead with 14 years transforming complex enterprise challenges into elegant digital solutions. I specialize in discovery research, design systems, and rapid prototyping—with the technical depth to build what I design.

My work at Telefónica reached 44M+ users across 5 brands, while my Design Sprints for Springer Nature, IKEA, and Sage consistently delivered validated concepts in days, not months.

What sets me apart is the ability to move seamlessly from user interview to working prototype: I've conducted hundreds of user research sessions, created hundreds of prototypes in Figma and Protopie, and built production-ready components in HTML/CSS/JS.

This rare combination of strategic thinking and technical implementation means I deliver solutions that are not just beautiful, but buildable—reducing friction between design and development while accelerating time to market.

Weitere Kenntnisse

Design Excellence
UX/UI/Interaction Design
Design System Architecture
Information Architecture
Responsive & Adaptive Design
Accessibility Best Practices
Research & Discovery
User Research & Interviews
Problem/Solution Fit Validation
Workflow Mapping & Analysis
Qualitative Prototype Testing
Data Analysis & Synthesis
Prototyping & Delivery
Figma (Variables, Auto-Layout)
High-Fidelity Prototypes
Code-based Prototypes
Protopie Interactive Design
Component Libraries
Process & Collaboration
Design Sprint Facilitation
Agile/Scrum Methods
Stakeholder Management
Cross-functional Leadership
Workshop Moderation

Persönliche Daten

Sprache
  • Englisch (Muttersprache)
  • Deutsch (Fließend)
Reisebereitschaft
Europa
Arbeitserlaubnis
  • Europäische Union
Home-Office
unbedingt
Profilaufrufe
1353
Alter
39
Berufserfahrung
14 Jahre und 6 Monate (seit 09/2011)
Projektleitung
9 Jahre

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