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Anjana R.
Last position:
Senior Product Designer at Casavi GmbH
I served as the Lead Designer for two cross-functional teams at Casavi, a software platform for property managers. Casavi is a central platform for all aspects of digital property management, which streamlines operations and business processes.
SmartTask: The team focuses on ticket management, workflow automation, AI integration, enhancing communication between property managers and their clients.
Customer app/portal: The team is dedicated to fostering community engagement among residents of managed properties. The customer portal in combination with the Casavi app solves the challenges for property and facility managers.
My role spans the full design lifecycle, covering UX/UI design, user research, usability testing, and strategic design planning, across Casavi's web platform, mobile app, and customer portals. Each team comprises around 10 members, including a project manager, designer, developers, and QA testers. I am also responsible for the accessibility assurance of the whole product.
Design unit role: In addition to my core responsibilities, I actively contribute to the development and maintenance of the company's design system and style guide ensuring consistency and scalability across all products. Mentor junior designers is my official and moral responsibility.
Emanuel J.
Last position:
UX Architect (external, embedded) at Erste Digital
Embedded in an agile cross-functional team, I helped shape how complex banking interfaces look, feel and scale, working with a component-based design system and collaborating daily with engineers and product owners to make sure every design decision was both user-centred and buildable.
Banking, Enterprise Software, Figma, Design Systems, Agile/Scrum
Mike B.
Last position:
Freelance UX-Researcher, Designer at Bodensee Schiffsbetriebe; Labhard-Medien
- UX research, UX concept development, and UX design for an AI dialogue system with information on events, locations, public transport timetables, and special trips. Observations, remote user tests, session recordings, analytics evaluations, RapidUserTests, prototyping, etc., using Figma/Figma Make, Claude Design, and OpenAI Codex (Design)
Myrto P.
Last position:
UX Lead, Strategist for Property Management Systems at Destination Solutions
- Leading UX for a Property Management System, an all-in-one solution for vacation rental agencies and tourism regions, covering marketing and rental of holiday apartments and houses
- UX audits, conception, and implementation of UX strategy with a focus on regulatory, security, and user-centered requirements
- Advising C-level stakeholders on UX strategy and design best practices
- Planning and conducting research with agencies and property owners
- Design system strategy and definition of UX architecture
Thomas G.
Last position:
Senior UX Designer, Consultant & Team Lead at UXfocus e.U.
Strategic & UX work at UXfocus
- UX consultant and teamlead with strong experience in UX management, UX strategy, UX methods and processes
- Moderation of customer and user workshops and team mentoring
- Led qualitative and quantitative user research activities and UX design activities
- Developed user and customer journeys, user flows, wireframes up to the development of click prototypes for clients such as Indeed and Varian – Siemens Healthineers, Tecan and Energie AG
- Worked on digital products like responsive and mobile applications and complex industrial products like console applications and dashboards
- Developed design systems and design libraries using Figma, Design Tokens, Storybook, etc.
- Facilitated workshops and usability evaluations (user testing and expert evaluation) providing deep insights for advancing product development
- Experience with UX tools (Figma, Sketch, Invision), Design Systems, Requirements Engineering (Confluence, Jira, IBM Doors, etc)
Rebekka Z.
Last position:
UX Design Lecturer at cimdata Bildungsakademie GmbH
- Teach UX principles and methods
- Guide students in conducting user research and creating user-centered designs
- Provide hands-on exercises and real-world projects to build student portfolios
- Stay up-to-date on industry trends and best practices
- Course length: 4 weeks, class size: 12-20 students
Martina B.
Last position:
UX Designer and Consultant at Self Employed
As UX Manager and UX Team Lead, my focus is on creating the conditions for excellent UX design – not only by improving results, but also by investing in people, culture, and systems. I am convinced that sustainable UX design comes from a combination of autonomous teams, clear rituals, and a shared vision of product and user value.
My job is to enable successful UX design within a company. This includes setting up and growing the UX team, establishing a design system, designing design processes, defining and developing UX maturity and UX culture within the company, and developing strategies that combine business requirements and user experience design.
Consulting and conceptual support in UX and product topics (project-based)
Deepening strategic topics: UX Strategy, Organizational Design, UX Maturity
Market and role orientation with a focus on Head of UX / UX Leadership positions
Volkmar T.
Last position:
Consultant | Business Analyst – Requirements Engineer – Agile Coach - Designer at ÖBB BCC
- Redesign of system error messages for Jira & Confluence
- Evaluation and implementation of new system extensions
- Analysis and design of new business processes with UX expertise
- Support for the implementation of SAFe
Oliver S.
Last position:
Senior UX/UI Designer and Consultant at Local Search Directories AG, Swisscom
- Freelance mandate as senior UX/UI designer and consultant
Oliver K.
Last position:
Founder & Manager at ThinkForm Studio – AI Product Design & Innovation
Designing AI-native digital products by combining product strategy, UX research, interaction design, software engineering, and modern AI workflows. Leading projects from discovery to implementation while integrating AI throughout the entire product development lifecycle.
Key responsibilities
- → Product discovery, stakeholder workshops, Jobs-to-be-Done and user research
- → User journey mapping, information architecture and interaction design
- → Wireframes, high-fidelity UI, prototypes and scalable design systems in Figma and Penpot
- → AI-assisted interface generation and rapid concept exploration using Figma AI, Figma Make and generative design workflows
- → Design-to-code workflows with AI-supported frontend generation and engineering collaboration
- → Building accessible interfaces following WCAG 2.2 and enterprise design standards
- → Usability testing, iterative validation and KPI-driven product optimization
- → Development of AI knowledge systems, MCP-powered design workflows and human-in-the-loop review processes
- → Close collaboration with engineering teams to ensure production-ready implementation
Oliver S.
Last position:
Senior UX/UI Designer at backbone.one GmbH
ux-ui design
- provide dev teams with designs in an agile setup
- minor design ops tasks
- design system governance
- maintain ui-kit and component library
- make use of extended atomic approach
- documentation
- building ready-made responsive components using industry standards (e.g auto layout, design tokens)
- enhance pitch slides
- minor design tasks for CRM and marketing
Lukas N.
Last position:
Senior Product Designer (Process & Workflows) at Streckenheld
- Designed role-based delivery assignment workflows, switchable between own fleet and partner carriers, with traceable status chains from „pending“ to „in delivery.“
- Designed AI-assisted route optimization, where dispatchers review drive-time-optimized route suggestions as drafts and apply them in one click.
- Designed a central planning interface for delivery and route management, bringing table view, map view, and route composition into a single workflow.
- Built interactive prototypes to align new product features early with stakeholders and engineering.
Key methods: AI-assisted Product Design, Workflow Design, Role-Based Workflows, Dashboard Design, Interaction Design, Prototyping, Logistics/Operations UX, Stakeholder Collaboration
Alexander S.
Last position:
Founder & Creative Director at OFFF Vienna Design Festival
- Led the festival’s creative direction, managing event planning, branding, and content in Vienna
Henry V.
Last position:
Full-Stack Developer & Design Lead at FUNKE Mediengruppe
As part of the migration from Shopware 5 to 6, it was decided to rethink the entire e-commerce landscape of the regional FUNKE online shops from scratch. The main goals, besides creating a reliable platform with multiple sales channels for each regional brand, were the "rebranding" and the brand development around it.
The rebranding was also transferred into the advertising materials CI, which in the daily newspaper sector, alongside digital performance ads, still has print as a strong focus in the target group segment.
My responsibilities/tasks in this project:
- Creating the UI design system
- UX research
- Prototyping
- Rebranding & creating the new CI manual across all regional shops
- Shopware 6 front-end & back-end development
- Design & creative lead
- Ad design, landing pages
Leif-Alexander W.
Last position:
Freelance Creative Director, UX Designer, Visual Designer at zooom productions gmbh Fuschl
- Gasteiner Mineralwasser
- UX and visual design for Red Bull xAlps, Red Bull Illume, and Yodobashi Camera Tokyo
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UX Designer statistics
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
16 years
Position duration
2.9 years
Positions per freelancer
9
Top business areas
Product Development, Information Technology, Marketing
Top industries
Information Technology, Media and Entertainment, Professional Services
Certification focus areas
Product Development, Information Technology, Project Management
Bachelor's degree or higher
93%
Master's degree or higher
39%
Doctorate
2%
Certifications per freelancer
1
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
94%
Based on our profile pool as of 10 Sep 2026.
Daily rate distribution
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Average rates for UX Designer
Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.
The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.
The median daily rate is the middle value of all daily rates — half of comparable freelancers charge less, half charge more. Unlike the average, it is barely affected by outliers.
Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 10 Sep 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
UX Designer experts industry focus
See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.
- Information Technology (85%)
- Media and Entertainment (52%)
- Professional Services (48%)
- Advertising (44%)
- Retail (42%)
- Automotive (39%)
- Banking and Finance (38%)
- Education (37%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the role
What they do
A UX Designer shapes how people use a product. The work starts with user goals, business goals, and current friction. It ends with clear journeys, testable concepts, and screens that teams can build with confidence.
Typical deliverables include:
- User flows and journey maps
- Wireframes for key screens and states
- Interactive prototypes for testing and review
- Findings from interviews, usability tests, and audits
- Design recommendations for product and development teams
Core skills
Strong UX designers connect research, structure, and interface logic. They ask the right questions, simplify complex paths, and turn findings into practical design decisions.
- User research, interviews, and usability testing
- Information architecture and navigation design
- Wireframing, prototyping, and interaction design
- Clear communication with product, engineering, and stakeholders
- Tools such as Figma, FigJam, Miro, and Adobe XD
When to hire
Companies bring in a freelance UX Designer when a product needs a fresh perspective, a redesign, or extra hands for a specific phase. This is common for new digital products, onboarding improvements, checkout flows, internal tools, and redesigns of legacy software.
Freelancers are also a strong choice when the team needs short-term support without a long hiring process. They can step in for audits, design sprints, backlog cleanup, or research before a major release.
What good looks like
A strong UX designer does more than make screens look neat. They reduce uncertainty in the product, explain trade-offs clearly, and design for real user behavior.
- They base decisions on evidence, not taste
- They think in flows, edge cases, and empty states
- They work well with product managers and developers
- They can defend a design and adapt it after feedback
- They understand the difference between UX, UI, and product design
Common specializations
Many companies look for a UX designer with a focus. Some need support on mobile app UX, some on B2B SaaS, and others on e-commerce or service portals. In larger teams, the role may overlap with a UI/UX designer or product designer, but the core goal stays the same: make the experience easier to use and easier to ship.
The best freelancers can move between concept work and detailed execution. They know when to explore, when to simplify, and when to hand over precise specs to engineering.
Working with teams
UX design works best when the designer joins early and stays close to decision-makers. That can mean workshops with stakeholders, working sessions with developers, or direct collaboration with research and product teams.
Freelance UX designers are especially useful when a company needs flexible support across multiple products or wants to test a new direction before committing to a permanent hire.
Frequently asked questions
Quick answers to the questions that come up most around UX Designer.
A UX Designer defines how a product should work from the user’s point of view. The work often includes research, journey mapping, wireframes, prototypes, and usability improvements. In practice, they turn product goals into flows that are easier to understand and build.
A strong UX Designer combines research, structure, and clear communication. They should understand user interviews, usability testing, information architecture, and prototyping in tools like Figma. They also need to work well with product managers and developers.
A UX Designer focuses on the flow, logic, and usability of the experience. A UI Designer is more focused on the visual layer, while a Product Designer may cover both UX and UI plus broader product decisions. In many companies, the titles overlap, so scope matters more than the label.
A freelance UX Designer makes sense when the need is project-based, urgent, or highly specific. Companies often hire freelancers for redesigns, audits, onboarding improvements, or research before a larger roadmap decision. It is also a good option when the team needs specialist support without adding headcount.
A typical UX Designer delivers user flows, wireframes, prototypes, audit notes, and recommendations. Depending on the project, they may also run interviews or usability tests and document the results. The output should help your team make design and product decisions faster.
Most UX Designers can work remotely as long as they have access to the right stakeholders, product context, and feedback loops. On-site sessions can help for workshops, discovery, or sensitive internal products. Many projects use a mix of remote collaboration and a few focused in-person meetings.
Look at the reasoning behind the design, not only the final screens. A good UX Designer can explain user problems, show how they tested ideas, and connect design choices to business goals. Strong portfolios include process, not just polished visuals.
A UX designer should expect to work with incomplete information, changing priorities, and different stakeholder opinions. The best freelancers clarify the scope early, define success criteria, and agree on how feedback and approvals will work. That keeps the project moving and avoids design churn.
The average hourly rate for UX Designer is 91 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 727 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers working as UX Designer, 93% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 39% hold at least a Master's degree, and 2% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers working as UX Designer have 16 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.9 years.
The most common languages among freelancers working as UX Designer are German (98%), English (95%), and French (16%).
The most common industries among freelancers working as UX Designer are Information Technology (85%), Media and Entertainment (52%), and Professional Services (48%).
The most common business areas among freelancers working as UX Designer are Product Development (97%), Information Technology (82%), and Marketing (77%).
FRATCH UX Designer main locations
Our freelancers and interim experts are at home all over Germany — available on-site in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and every major business hub, or fully remote. Choose a city to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.
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Dusseldorf In Austria our freelancers and interim experts support companies from Vienna to Graz — on-site where your project needs them, or fully remote. Choose a city to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.
Vienna Graz Across Switzerland our specialists are active in Zurich, Geneva, Basel and Bern — working on-site or fully remote. Choose a city to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.
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