The Life-centered Design Collective is a dedicated assembly of designers and educators from diverse backgrounds, united by a shared commitment to Life-centered Design. Our mission is to pioneer and promote a design approach that considers the broader ecological and social systems, ensuring that our work benefits all forms of life – both in the short term and for generations to come.

I specialize in new digital products and assist my clients holistically. Ranging from doing user research to creating strategic concepts, facilitating workshops, and designing the user interface. My clients are startups as well as large corporations. Together with them, I want to create lasting positive experiences. For that reason, it became more and more important to me to bring a life-centered mindset to my work. I keep on exploring what this means and how I can help my clients adopt this thinking as well in their company.

My husband and I founded LifeCenteredDesign.Net with the vision to provide anyone who is interested with the tools and resources they need to design products, services and systems with all life in mind. We first focused on creating a resource hub, because I believe that information is the most powerful tool to create action! We will keep on improving that first value proposition and will then see if there are other interesting and helpful directions we could take with it.

I have been teaching UX Design at the Stuttgart Media University since early 2014. In the course, the students learn how to build digital products that create lasting positive experiences. A human-centered approach has always been the underlying foundation. They get acquainted with important UX terms, methods and frameworks and get to apply their learnings practically by creating a concept and design for an app themselves. They conduct interviews, build out personas, create storyboards, build and usability test interactive prototypes and create a visual Screendesign of their app. This semester (and maybe the next to come), I chose to base the course on a recent report by the German Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt – UBA) around increasing sustainable consumption through digital product information. The students get to envision solutions, that help consumers make more environmentally-friendly decisions.

I have been teaching UX Design at the University of Applied Sciences Esslingen since early 2020. In the course, the students learn how to build digital products that create lasting positive experiences. A human-centered approach has always been the underlying foundation. They get acquainted with important UX terms, methods and frameworks and get to apply their learnings practically by creating a concept and design for an app themselves. They conduct interviews, build out personas, create storyboards, build and usability test interactive prototypes and create a visual Screendesign of their app. This semester (and maybe the next to come), I chose to base the course on a recent report by the German Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt – UBA) around increasing sustainable consumption through digital product information. The students get to envision solutions, that help consumers make more environmentally-friendly decisions.

• Developing the new strategic positioning as an IoT agency, that makes use of technology to create a positive future• Leading the UX and Marketing team with the aim to be a servant to the team, making sure they are happy, can do their best work and grow• Define and sharpen the overall brand, marketing, processes and services as well as the values according to the strategic positioning• Leading UX projects for clients such as Hornbach, Warema, Hörmann and others• Analyzing and optimizing Codeatelier’s target audience and the customer journey through conversations, desk research and questionnaires• Creating a content marketing strategy that was both trust building and would help Codeatelier be positioned as an expert in their niche• Improving the company wide professional development by internal events and by building out platforms, where colleagues were able to inspire and inform each other• Developing a new project kick-off sprint format that helped us build a common understanding of the project vision with our clients, build grounds for further conversations, developments and estimations, quickly test out and evaluate the desirability and feasibility of an idea and find out if we are a good fit with our client• Creating the new website, that for the first time, informed the visitors about the services and process, the team, the history and values, that built trust through projects and customer quotes and that optimized recruitment through employee quotes, a clearly communicated hiring process and direct contact persons from the team• Creating and establishing an internal event format to share knowledge cross-functionally across the team, inspire others to keep growing and learning, keep in touch with colleagues while in homeoffice and create a constant stream of high quality content for marketing• Planning the office renovation and interior

Gründerin und Organisatorin der Community "Sketch & Design Stuttgart".Als Sketch Ambassador und großer Fan des Interfacedesign Tools "Sketch" (begeisterte Nutzerin seit 2012) habe ich für den Raum Stuttgart eine Sketch Community gegründet. Für diese Community organisiere und hoste ich Meetups und Workshops. Die Community besteht aus vielen tollen Mitgliedern, die mindestens genauso für Sketch brennen wie ich und die Gruppe erst zu dem machen, was sie ist. Neue Mitglieder sind immer herzlich willkommen. Die Mitgliedschaft ist vollkommen kostenlos. Also: vorbeischauen lohnt sich!

Während meiner Zeit bei Codeatelier war ich für Konzept und Design aller Anwendungen und Websites zuständig. Ein wichtiger Fokus lag dabei auf dem eigenen Smart Home Produkt "homee". Ich hatte bei Codeatelier die Möglichkeit sehr eigenverantwortlich zu arbeiten und meine Tätigkeiten selbst zu steuern. Zu meinen Tätigkeiten zählten unter anderem:• Konzept & Design für alle Smart Home Apps (homee, AFRISOhome, Hager coviva...)• Durchführung von Usability Tests• Planung & Moderation von Ideation Workshops• Generieren von User Insights aus Support & Social Media• Analyse und Überarbeitung der Support Strategie• Aufbau der homee Community (als Teil der Support Strategie)• Konzept & Design für die Codeatelier Website• Konzept, Design & Webentwicklung für die homee Website• Planung & Umsetzung des homee Webshops• Konzept & Design für Newsletter & Social Media

Während meines Praktikums bei Zettwerk lagen meine Tätigkeitsschwerpuntke im Interfacedesign, Usability Engineering und E-Learning. Zu meinen Aufgaben zählten:• Redesign der Zettwerk Website• Redesign einer Partner Website• Überarbeitung der Usability von Webshops• Konzeption und Design einer neuen Version der CRM-Software "zett" unter Berücksichtigung von Usability Aspekten• Konzeption und Design einer mobilen Version von "zett"• Erstellen der Einreichung für den d-elina Award (Paper, Grafiken für den Prototyp und Video)• Gestaltung des Messeauftritts für die LEARNTEC

Neben meinem Informationsdesign Studium war ich als Werkstudentin im Bereich "Graphic Design" bei ELO Digital Office tätig. Hier konnte ich vor allem meine Fähigkeiten im Umgang mit verschiedenen UI-Design Tools verbessern.