About Ferdinand
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English
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Experience
- Superflink DesignFreelance UX/UI Designer & Design Sprint MasterDIGITAL AND ITMarch 2018 - Today (8 years and 3 months)Karlsruhe, GermanyIndependent work as a UX/UI Designer and Design Sprint Master in various industries, team constellations, company sizes, development phases, and technologies:
- Multinational website for a 3D architectural visualization software | Worldwide 500,000+ MAU (Monthly Active Users) | Lead of the website redesign, conception & UX/UI design, project management, design team lead
- AI-based product text generation and algorithm-based text optimization | Based on GPT-2, Languagetool, and custom algorithms | Lead Design Sprint, development of the product idea, conception & UX/UI design
- AI-based image recognition in logistics | Lead Design Sprint | Commissioned by a medium-sized GmbH for one of Germany's largest retail chains
- AI-based image recognition for driver fatigue detection | Lead Design Sprint | Automotive industry, corporation
- Mentoring & training of 7 startup teams at a multi-day product development hackathon | Automotive industry, corporation
- Various internal company software tools for numerous user groups | Several years of collaboration with a 20-person Agile team, Scrum process, UX/UI design, including supporting employees in their daily work, workshops to gather user needs, conception and UX/UI design of the user interfaces
- Dynamic meal kit with supermarket ingredients & weekly shopping | Support of a startup team from the initial idea to the app launch + product iteration over approx. 2 years
- Matchmaking platform for commercial real estate financing | Conception & UX/UI design (interviews, website & web application designs)
- Learning Management System (LMS) Progressive Web App (Web, iOS, Android) | App redesign, conception & UX/UI design of numerous further features | Medium-sized company
- WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor for creating dynamic contract processes in the finance industry | Conception & UX/UI design
- Optisure GmbHUser Experience Designer & User Interface DesignerBANKING AND INSURANCEJune 2017 - February 2018 (9 months)Karlsruhe, GermanyTogether with my colleagues at the web agency NinjaConcept, I moved to the Insurtech startup Optisure. We shared one of the most beautiful offices in Karlsruhe in the Alten Malzwerk.At Optisure, I was involved in the following areas:
- Conception & design of the web portal
- Prototyping & user testing; Brand development
- Coordination of other external design work
- Conducting workshops, retrospectives & productivity meetings
- Project management
- Process design
- QM
- NinjaConcept GmbHUser Experience Designer & User Interface DesignerDIGITAL AND ITSeptember 2016 - May 2017 (9 months)Karlsruhe, Germany
- Conception and design (User Interface Design) of digital media, especially apps (native for iOS and Android), web applications, and websites. including for SWR2 and Audi
- Conducting Design Sprint workshops, based on the Design Sprint concept by GV (Google Ventures).
- Conception and design of style guides and print media.
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Education
- Bachelor of Arts, BWL / BankDuale Hochschule Karlsruhe2009
- Bachelor of Science, Medien und InformationswesenHS Offenburg2013
Certifications
- Certified Design Sprint 2.0 Master - Moderation & FacilitationAJ&Smart, Berlin2018