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Bring in UX designers for user research, information architecture, wireframes, prototyping, usability testing, and product redesigns. Ideal for SaaS teams, e-commerce flows, and mobile apps that need clear decisions and clean handoff to UI and development. Fast, precise matching with vetted, available freelancers.
About the role
What they do
UX Designers shape how a product works before visual design and development lock it in. They turn business goals, user needs, and technical limits into clear flows and usable interfaces.
- User research, interviews, and journey mapping
- Information architecture and task flows
- Wireframes, prototypes, and interaction patterns
- Usability tests and design iterations
- Handoff notes for UI design and development
When to hire
Companies bring in a freelance UX Designer when a product feels confusing, conversion drops, or a new feature needs a better flow before release. They also help when an internal team needs extra hands for a redesign, workshop facilitation, or a short product sprint.
In Berlin, this often fits SaaS, fintech, mobility, media, and e-commerce teams that need someone who can work with product managers, developers, and content teams in English or German. Freelancers are a strong choice when speed, focus, and flexible scope matter more than a long hiring process.
Core skills
A strong UX Designer understands user behavior and can turn research into practical decisions. They need to be comfortable moving between discovery and delivery without losing the thread.
- Research synthesis and problem framing
- Wireframing in tools like Figma or similar
- Prototyping for tests and stakeholder reviews
- Clear communication with product and engineering
- Accessibility-aware design decisions
Tools and methods
Most projects combine workshops, interviews, journey maps, low-fidelity wireframes, and clickable prototypes. Depending on the setup, a UX designer may also work with design systems, analytics, and customer feedback to validate changes.
Common work includes redesigning onboarding, improving checkout, simplifying dashboards, or preparing a new feature for a UI Designer to refine. The best freelancers keep the scope tight, document decisions well, and make trade-offs easy to understand.
What good looks like
Strong UX work is not just neat screens. It removes friction, supports business goals, and makes the next step obvious for the user.
- Problems are defined before solutions are drawn
- Decisions are backed by evidence, not opinion
- Deliverables are usable by product, UI, and development teams
- Edge cases and accessibility are considered early
- Feedback is translated into clear next actions
Freelance fit
A freelance UX Designer is useful when the company needs senior thinking for a specific product problem, not a permanent seat. They can join remotely or work on-site in Berlin for workshops, testing sessions, or stakeholder alignment.
The best engagements start with a clear question: improve an existing flow, shape a new feature, or support a full redesign. That clarity helps the freelancer focus on the work that matters and keeps the project moving.
Meet FRATCH UX Designers
Myrto Papagiannakou
UX Lead, Strategist for Property Management Systems
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
Nikos Kotsakis
Senior UX Research & Experience Lead
Last position:
Senior UX Research & Experience Lead at RS Components
- Led end-to-end discovery and exploratory research to assess user needs, market readiness, and product viability for a workflow management and collaboration proposition
- Identified structural misalignment between concept assumptions and real engineering workflows, preventing premature delivery escalation and investment exposure
- Demonstrated through research evidence that the initial proposition was premature, preventing delivery escalation
- Reframed the value proposition based on evidence and initiated a renewed discovery cycle grounded in observed field practices
- Designed research plans and synthesis frameworks to inform roadmap prioritisation and reduce delivery risk
- Contributed to research operations setup, clarifying team roles and collaboration patterns to support continuous discovery
- Supported alignment between product, delivery, and leadership stakeholders through structured insight communication
- Scale: global platform launched as Think Hub (EU, UK, US, Asia)
Geza Lakatos
UX Consultant
Last position:
UX Strategist & AI App Developer (AI-assisted App Strategy) at Own Projects (Nutrycoach.ai, LuxuryBandit)
Conceptualizing and developing AI-powered app MVPs from the first idea to a working product. I combine UX strategy with modern AI and no-code tools — especially Claude and Claude Code, where I work directly in the terminal on real code (React, Vite), complemented by Figma, Bolt.new, and Base44 — to quickly validate and build product ideas. Personal platforms: Nutrycoach.ai (AI nutrition coaching with role-based dashboards for clients, coaches, and admins, AI meal analysis, and a scalable design system) and LuxuryBandit (content/creator app). This led to my own practice 'AI-assisted App Strategy', which combines human creativity, UX logic, and intelligent automation.
Simon Gwinner
UX/UI Designer
Last position:
UX/UI Designer at Freelance Consultant
- Designing digital experiences for a diverse range of companies and startups.
- Helping them with product discovery, user experience research and strategies and transforming concepts into visually compelling and functionally robust digital solutions and systems.
- Ensuring a seamless blend of aesthetics and functionality.
Anna Stylianakis
Content Design & UX Writing
Last position:
UX Writing & Content Strategy (for the agency think moto) at Kidstarter
Context: A financial company is launching Kidstarter, a digital financial guide for parents on child savings and planning. The goal is to present complex financial topics in an accessible way and guide parents through relevant themes.
Focus: Develop a content strategy and voice & tone guidelines as a foundation for consistent UX writing within the platform.
Key activities:
analyzed brand values, communication goals, and user personas
developed a content strategy for core topic areas and content formats
created voice & tone guidelines with concrete text examples for typical usage situations and modules
produced initial UX-writing examples illustrating the language guidelines
Results:
voice & tone guidelines serve as the basis for consistent writing and editorial content in the web app
customized GPT integration enables editors to optimize texts according to guidelines
David Barel
Senior UX Researcher & Strategic Consultant
Last position:
Senior UX Researcher & Strategic Consultant at adidas
- Leading mixed-methods discovery for the adidas Running App, using interviews, surveys (incl. choice-modeling), and AI-powered market/app-review intelligence to surface user needs and engagement opportunities.
- Partnering closely with Product, Content Storytelling, CRM, and Analytics teams to translate insights into product direction, segmentation opportunities, and rapid experimentation.
- Synthesizing extensive internal and external research to map knowns, identify critical knowledge gaps, and build an evidence-based research roadmap that supports continuous discovery and optimization.
- Championing AI-supported research practices by guiding cross-functional teams in leveraging AI for faster user feedback synthesis, market intelligence, and rapid workflows.
Andrej Becker
Lead UX Design Engineer
Last position:
Lead UX Design Engineer at Journexx GmbH
- Leading, designing, and developing the UX and UI strategy and implementing it for the platform
- Creating style guides and design systems in Figma
- Creating a generic end-to-end layout structure for big data cockpits in Figma and Sass (CSS, design tokens)
- Workflows, wireframes, user research, and rapid prototyping
- Preparing and facilitating workshops and discoveries
- Integrating designs and layouts into existing frontend templates
- Prototyping (low-/mid-/high-fidelity) of various apps for journalists and publishers
- Developing showcases for iOS and Android, design thinking, qualitative and quantitative user testing, and A/B testing
- Frontend development in close collaboration with design teams
- Active change management in the publishing and journalism sector and with stakeholders
- Company-wide communication and info hub for teams
- Raising awareness and getting buy-in for digitalization and new products
- Creating concepts and designs for gamification elements on the platform
- Convincing major industry players (e.g., WAN-IFRA) about new concepts and revenue streams
- Developing new cloud-native apps and revenue strategies
- Preparing and creating various materials for change processes
- Creating presentations, mini-apps, and info materials to support change campaigns
- Leading a total of three teams
Sabine Fentker
UX/UI Designer
Last position:
UX Designer at Aivy
- UX conception and design for a recruiting software focusing on lean onboarding and an intuitive dashboard entry.
- Drastically reduced clicks and barriers in the user onboarding.
- Optimized the dashboard by improving visual hierarchy and targeted user guidance.
- Implemented psychological triggers like step indicators to boost interaction.
- Deployed a dynamic assistant that responds to user behavior and communicates added value.
- Designed a complex diagnostics software with various matching options for people, jobs, and teams.
- Achieved a reduction of 24 clicks during user onboarding.
Christian Aquack
UX/UI Designer
Last position:
UX/UI Designer at DramaOnline
Directed a cross-functional team to redesign an online planning platform for theater lessons, prioritizing intuitive user flows and delivering an enhanced user experience.
Designed wireframes and prototypes to optimize user account setup, onboarding, lesson management, and dashboard functionality through iterative refinement and user testing.
Refined the existing brand design to improve accessibility and ensure inclusivity.
Developed responsive, interactive designs in Webflow, producing clean HTML, CSS, and JavaScript using BEM styling, ensuring seamless integration with a full-stack developer.
Marin Metohu
Freelance UX/UI Designer
Last position:
Freelance UX/UI Designer at Celsios
Christoph Ketel
Senior UX/UI Design Consultant
Last position:
Senior UX/UI Design Consultant at Taxdoo
- Collection of user stories across the whole platform, leading the redesign process.
- Dashboard redesign based on user research.
- Establishing a workflow for kickoff sessions as well as planning the way of working & collaboration across several teams and disciplines.
Shraddha Virani
UI/UX Designer
Last position:
UI/UX Designer at MunchTechnoZ
- I played a key role in redesigning the user interfaces of several web applications.
- Developed seamless user flows with a focus on clarity and ease of use.
- Conducted extensive user research, wireframing, prototyping, and iterative testing.
- Ensured consistency across different touchpoints.
- Advocated for user-centered principles in the development process to significantly improve usability.
- Empathy for users combined with consideration of technical constraints.
Lisa Kowalewski
Freelance Service/UX Designer and Educational Instructor
Last position:
Freelance Service/UX Designer and Educational Instructor at Self-employed
- Service and UX design
- Strategic design
- Educational instructor with focus on design
- User research/testing
- Prototyping
- Sustainability and "Design for Good" workshop design and facilitation (adults and children)
- Visualization and illustration
- Education for sustainable development and global learning
Martin Bender
Creator
Last position:
Creator at About Jacky
- Pioneered a service together with my colleague Manuela Risch that utilize visual storytelling and the "Jobs to Be Done" framework for discovery research and strategic alignment
Karoline Mess
Freelance Senior UX Researcher & Designer • Better product decisions through user research & lean UX processes
Last position:
UX Researcher & Designer at GC-GRUPPE
- UX research & design for a new photovoltaic platform
- Tasks:
- UX strategy
- Interviews
- Workshops
- Concept development
- Prototyping
- Testing
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UX Designers statistics
Typical experience
15 years
Average project duration
2.7 years
Certifications per freelancer
1
Top business areas
Product Development, Research and Development, Marketing
Top industries
Information Technology, Media and Entertainment, Education
Most common languages
German, English, French
Bachelor's degree or higher
100%
Master's degree or higher
41%
Doctorate
6%
Salary / Daily Rate Distribution
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Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
Frequently Asked Questions
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A UX Designer usually delivers research outputs, task flows, wireframes, prototypes, and recommendations based on testing. In many projects, the work also includes workshop facilitation and a clear handoff for UI design or development. The exact mix depends on whether the goal is discovery, redesign, or validation.
Freelance support works well when the need is tied to a product phase, a redesign, or a specific usability problem. It is also a good fit when the team needs senior support quickly but does not yet need a full-time hire. Companies often choose this route for focused projects with a clear end point.
A UX Designer focuses on structure, logic, and how the product feels to use. A UI Designer focuses more on the visual layer, layout, and interface styling. In real projects the roles overlap, but the UX side usually comes first because it defines the user journey before the visuals are polished.
Look for research thinking, strong wireframing skills, and the ability to explain design choices in plain language. A good freelancer should be comfortable with user interviews, testing, and collaboration with product and engineering. For Berlin-based teams, it also helps if they can work well in English and, when needed, German.
Most UX Designers use Figma or similar tools for wireframes and prototypes, plus documentation tools for sharing decisions and test results. They may also use analytics, whiteboarding tools, and survey or research platforms. The tool list matters less than the ability to turn insight into a clear product flow.
Look at how they define the problem, not just how polished the screens look. Good work shows evidence from research, clear reasoning, and practical changes that reduce friction. Ask for examples where the designer improved a flow, simplified a journey, or helped a team make a difficult trade-off.
Both can work. Remote collaboration is common for research analysis, wireframes, and iterative reviews, while on-site time helps with workshops, stakeholder alignment, and user sessions. Many Berlin teams use a hybrid setup and combine both depending on the phase of the project.
Not exactly. UX Design focuses on user needs, flows, and interaction logic, while product design can cover UX plus visual design and broader product thinking. Some freelancers do both, but it is worth checking where their strength really is before the project starts.
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