It's my passion to design outstanding UX and to guarantee high-quality implementation in order to delight users with the best possible product experience in their individual context!
UX CONSULTING
In consulting, the focus lies on the assessment (Heuristic Evaluation) of the user experience of your digital product and the recommendation based on this to optimize it (UX Design Roadmap/Strategy). With a new product, consulting is about putting the user in the centre of development and aligning the product with the user’s needs and desires in order to be successfully accepted on the market later.
You get an expert's assessment of the user experience of your digital product and a detailed recommendation of what steps are necessary to optimize it.
The assessment covers the three essential aspects of an interactive product: interaction design, visual design and content design. Each of these aspects of the system to be evaluated is examined, for example, for deviations against evaluation criteria, the so-called heuristics (e.g. "10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design" by Jakob Nielsen).
The recommendation contains all necessary steps and actions that are to be taken to improve the user experience. The goal is to put the user with his or her needs for your product in the focus of further development. Actions come from the areas of user research, interaction design, visual design and quality assurance.
UX DESIGN
In UX design, we agree on joint measures to improve the user experience of your digital product. The approach for this is the design thinking methodology. The human-centered design puts the future user at the center of your product development.
In an discover and define phase users will be interviewed and observed to identify the real problem statement. The findings from this phase form the basis for the ideate phase, in which ideas and solutions are designed to develop the best possible user experience. Experience plays a crucial role in deriving the right innovations and optimizations for the product. In a validate phase, solutions will be tested with a target audience using prototypes and then further optimized and adapted. Since the overall process is based on an iterative approach, it is crucial for quality and efficiency at which point in time to move on to the next phase or return to the previous one.
The advantages of this human-centered approach are obvious. If you empathise for your users and identified their real problems, you can develop the right solution and design a product that meets expectations and is used with pleasure. The iterative approach and early validation ensure this and save costly adjustments to the final product.
That’s me, Simon!
My professional journey spans from a front-end developer to a usability engineer, culminating in my role as a lead UX designer. In more than 15 years of professional experience, I have been able to acquire in-depth knowledge in almost all areas of digital product development. Collaboration with various customers - from startups to large international corporations - usually takes place with leadership responsibility for design teams and in collaboration with cross-functional product teams in agile environments.
In addition to the conception and design of responsive web apps and native mobile apps, my skills also include the implementation of cross-product and cross-brand design systems. Always with the aim of optimizing the processes in product development, especially between design and development, and making them more efficient.
The foundation for an outstanding user experience is, above all, a deeper understanding of the user in their individual context, which forms the core of my design thinking approach.
"Design is intelligence made visible."
T-Shaped Skill Set
Identifying user needs and designing the appropriate interaction is my passion and core competence. Due to my engineering background and numerous project experiences, I also have a broad knowledge of related disciplines such as frontend engineering, product management or service design. This gives me a holistic view of the product life cycle and customer journey.
Portfolio
Here you can find a selection of my projects with a true passion for each and every pixel.
