Freelancer profile translated to English.
Back to original languageAbout Christos
For 17 years, I've been making complicated things simple. With AI & UX.
✺ WHAT I DO AND WHY IT WORKS
2009, my first project as a UX designer. In front of me was an interface with dozens of functions, and everyone in the room was sure: users need all of it. I wasn't. They need what truly helps; the rest is decoration.
For 17 years, that's exactly what I've been doing: simplifying the complicated. For OTTO Group, ERGO, Frank Thelen, and for the largest bald community in the DACH region. Today, with artificial intelligence.
In 2019, I founded wenighair, my bootstrap startup. For the first time, my own money was on the line based on my own methods. Result: the largest bald community in the DACH region, online courses, 500 YouTube videos, over 1000 keywords on page 1 of Google. All grown organically. Unlike my hair.
Since 2022, I've been working with AI daily. I've trained an AI chatbot with 6 years of my own knowledge, automated workflows, and connected APIs to processes that were previously manual.
The AI chatbot incidentally showed me that my community asks completely different questions than I thought. My first online course ignored this and sold accordingly. The second was created from over 300 real questions, was finished in half the time, and met the demand.
✺ WHAT MY CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE MEANS FOR YOUR COMPANY
Most companies have the same problem right now. The AI tools are purchased. But the teams don't know how to work with them productively. No business value is generated from the experiments. And none of it fits into the established processes anyway.
I sit in between. With UX, I talk to people; with AI, I talk to machines. And because I've built a business myself, I know what costs money and what brings money in the end.
UX, AI & Product Development intertwine in my work. I call it: Creative Intelligence.
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German
Native or bilingual
Greek
Native or bilingual
English
Conversational
Remote only
Primarily works remotely
Experience
- Studio Christos ✺ KI Kreative IntelligenzArtificial Intelligence ConsultantDIGITAL AND ITNovember 2022 - Today (3 years and 8 months)Köln, GermanyMany companies talk about AI and still have no productive adoption. The technology is rarely the problem. The problem is workflows into which AI was never integrated.I have been working daily with Large Language Models since 2022. What has measurably worked in my bootstrap startup wenighair, I pass on to clients. Two weeks of research become two days, gut feeling becomes a data-backed decision. I build Custom GPTs and prompt workflows for specific applications. Tools that are still used after three weeks, not a playground. And I guide teams from skepticism to daily use. Those who know their limits experiment more boldly.
- Studio Christos ✺ KI Kreative IntelligenzSenior User Experience ConsultantDIGITAL AND ITJanuary 2009 - Today (17 years and 7 months)Köln, GermanyMost products don't fail because of the technology. They fail because business, development, and users speak three different languages and no one translates. Since 2009, I've been the translator as a UX consultant for OTTO Group, ERGO, Frank Thelen, and tech investor portfolios.My approach: as little as possible, as much as necessary. I understand how algorithms think without forgetting how people feel. Visions become prioritized roadmaps, user research becomes decision papers, weeks become days. Since 2022, Claude and ChatGPT have been part of my toolkit. From startups to DAX-listed companies, I know both worlds and what works in each.
- Frank Thelen / Freigeist Capital GmbHSenior User Experience ConsultantE-COMMERCEDecember 2016 - December 2018 (2 years)Bonn, GermanyA tech investor portfolio serves three realities simultaneously. That of the investor, that of the young startups, and that of the end-users. Anyone who takes only one of them seriously builds products nobody needs.UX strategy for Frank Thelen and his portfolio, from personal brand to startups like Ankerkraut and Luicella's. I translated visionary ideas into tangible digital experiences without diluting the brand, and supported the young teams during their growth phase. Fast, but not at the expense of quality.
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Education
- IT Specialist for Application DevelopmentBerufskolleg Technik des Kreises Siegen-Wittgenstein20082005 hatte ich keine Ahnung, wo mich das hinführen würde. Fachinformatiker für Anwendungsentwicklung klang nach einem sicheren Weg, also bin ich ihn gegangen. 3 Jahre Code, Logik, Systemarchitektur. Aber während andere sich in Backend-Logik vertieften, fesselte mich die Magie, ein Programm durch eine intuitive Benutzeroberfläche lebendig werden zu lassen. Nicht nur erstellen, sondern analysieren: Warum funktioniert diese Oberfläche, und warum nervt jene? Getrieben von diesem Interesse entschied ich mich, noch eine zweite Ausbildung zu machen. Mediendesign. Weil ich wissen wollte, wie man Interfaces nicht nur baut, sondern richtig gestaltet.
- Media Designer Digital and PrintBerufskolleg Technik des Kreises Siegen-Wittgenstein2011Mein Ziel war es, Design nicht nur zu machen, sondern es von Grund auf zu verstehen. Wie wirken Geometrie, Typografie, Farbe auf Betrachter? Nach dieser zweiten Ausbildung konnte ich endlich beides: Logik mit Kreativität verknüpfen. Ein technisches Fundament plus gestalterisches Handwerk. Heute weiß ich: Genau diese Kombination macht mich als UX-Designer aus. Ich verstehe, wie Entwickler denken, und ich weiß, wie Designer arbeiten. Beide Welten sprechen verschiedene Sprachen. Ich spreche beide.
Certifications
- Career Essentials in Generative AI by Microsoft and LinkedinMicrosoft2025