Design System Experts in Berlin
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Anjana Rakesh
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.
Myrto Papagiannakou
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
Martina Büttner-Leibovici
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
Dave Mooney
Last position:
Founder & Lead Designer at Dave Mooney Software
- Leading end-to-end UX for two AI SaaS products in closed beta, including LLM-interaction design, prompt-UX, and human-in-the-loop patterns with commercial distribution signed for launch in Q3 2026
- Built a self-built LLM reframing and RAG-correction pipeline powering multi-profile CV and case-study generation in production use
- Shipping real code alongside research, including Three.js/GLSL portfolio work, Figma-API tooling, and a Chrome MV3 extension for session-sync automation
Rashi Jain
Last position:
Design Consultant at Valutics Inc.
- Designing UX for a B2B AI SaaS platform covering the full software development lifecycle, including an orchestration transparency panel showing users which AI model is active at each stage, reducing AI opacity and building user trust in multi-model workflows.
Nikos Kotsakis
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)
Robert Ehlers
Last position:
Consultant Digital Innovation & Experience at self employed
Aleksandra Maslon
Last position:
Senior Product Designer at Boldare SA
AI • Enterprise SaaS • Product Strategy • Product Discovery
Led product design for enterprise SaaS, AI-powered and customer-facing products.
- Defined product strategy from discovery to delivery
- Designed complex workflows, design systems and scalable UX
- Led UX research, product discovery and stakeholder workshops
Fahad Khan
Last position:
Senior Designer / Founder at Fahaddeartist
I run my own freelance agency based in Berlin and help startups and teams.
- I helped 100+ businesses achieve the digital products they wanted.
- Took ownership of the design process, collaborating with other teams.
- Conducted design thinking, user research, and competitive analysis.
- Developed design concepts, wireframes, and high-fidelity prototypes.
- Optimized websites and their conversion rates to reach more clients.
- I help clients in tech, hospitality, luxury, real estate, and professional services.
- I work with long-term products and clients like Accor, Corso Da Vinci, Webwavers, and ImmoTrust.
Nada Sadek
Last position:
Freelance Senior Frontend Engineer at Self-Employed
- Senior software engineer focused on React, TypeScript and AI-assisted product workflows
- Build frontend systems for complex SaaS products, internal tools and operational workflows
- Recent work includes AI evaluation tooling, support reliability analysis and developer-focused QA systems
- Available for freelance and contract engagements, especially remote-first projects
Geza Lakatos
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.
Fernando Camargo Del Buono
Last position:
Senior Front-End Developer at Moss
- Moss is a spend-management platform for SMEs that bundles corporate cards, web-based applications and reimbursements, AP/procurement and advanced accounting in one place.
- Splits time across Accounting, Spending and Growth tribes, handling requirements gathering, public product design, coding, testing, debugging and internal apps.
- Participates in development and maintenance of the design system/UI kit and supports tooling, documentation and developer experience.
- Builds form-heavy UIs, drawer-based editing, high-density/resilient tables with server-side filters, pagination, column configurations, CSV/Excel export and bulk operations, all wired for permissions and auditability.
- Works with complex cross-entity relationships without a single-schema solution.
- Uses React, Redux Toolkit, styled-components, react-hook-form, React PDF, Vite, Lokalise, React Testing Library and Playwright.
Simon Gwinner
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.
Natalia Graf
Last position:
Product Designer at Freelance
Professional Certification in AI Product Design - focusing on Human-AI Interaction, AI powered product experience and integrating generative AI into the product design process. Developing skills in AI Prototyping, Prompt Engineering, AI UX Patterns for the next generation of digital products.
Christian Lenz
Last position:
Freelance at Independent Practice
- Exploring how design systems in Figma need to evolve to work reliably with AI across design and code.
- Prototyping workflows around Figma design-to-code, deterministic component generation, source-of-truth models, and system consistency.
- Teaching Screen Design and Web Development at Hochschule Kaiserslautern.
- Selected consulting and design work.
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Statistics of experts using Design System
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
15 years (Germany: 16 years)
Position duration
2.4 years (Germany: 2.5 years)
Positions per freelancer
8 (Germany: 10)
Top business areas
Product Development, Information Technology, Marketing
Top industries
Information Technology, Professional Services, Banking and Finance
Certification focus areas
Product Development, Information Technology, Research and Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
97% (Germany: 90%)
Master's degree or higher
29% (Germany: 32%)
Doctorate
3% (Germany: 2%)
Certifications per freelancer
1
Most common languages
English, German, French
Speak two or more languages
94% (Germany: 95%)
Based on our profile pool as of 30 Aug 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of freelancers in this technology in Berlin are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows how many freelancers charge within that range.
Average rates of experts in Berlin using Design System
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 30 Aug 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
About the technology
What it covers
A design system gives teams a shared way to build products with consistent UI, content, and interaction rules. It usually combines components, tokens, usage guidance, and a clear ownership model. Strong specialists turn scattered interface work into a system teams can reuse.
Typical work
- Set up or refine component libraries for product teams
- Define design tokens, naming rules, and states
- Document patterns, accessibility rules, and usage limits
- Support handoff between design and front-end work
- Keep the system aligned with product changes
Tooling and ecosystem
Design system work often sits across Figma, Storybook, component libraries, and front-end frameworks such as React or Vue. Experts also work with token pipelines, versioning, and documentation tools so the system stays usable in daily delivery. The best professionals keep design and code in sync.
When companies bring in help
Companies usually bring in freelance expertise when the interface has grown too inconsistent, a new product line needs shared standards, or a current system is hard to maintain. Berlin teams often need support that fits mixed in-house and remote collaboration. Clear English communication matters, especially when design, product, and engineering are spread across locations.
What strong specialists do
A strong specialist does more than polish components. They define rules, reduce duplication, and make decisions easy to apply across teams.
- Balance flexibility with consistency
- Explain patterns in plain language
- Work with both designers and front-end specialists
- Spot gaps in accessibility and states
Signs you need one
If teams keep rebuilding the same buttons, forms, or layouts, the system is probably too loose. If product teams debate style details in every sprint, a design system expert can restore structure. That is useful for web apps, internal tools, customer portals, and multi-brand product portfolios.
Frequently asked questions
Questions about Design System? Start with the answers below.
A Design System gives product teams shared components, rules, and guidance so interfaces stay consistent across products and channels. It is used for buttons, forms, navigation, layout patterns, content rules, and accessibility decisions. This reduces duplicate work and makes handoff between design and front-end specialists much cleaner.
A Design System is broader than a style guide or UI kit because it connects visual rules, components, tokens, and usage guidance. A style guide explains how things should look, while a UI kit often shows reusable parts without much governance. A strong system also covers how teams maintain and evolve those parts over time.
A good Design System specialist usually knows Figma, Storybook, and a modern front-end stack such as React or Vue. Experience with design tokens, documentation tooling, and versioning is also valuable. The exact tool set depends on whether the work is mainly design, code, or system governance.
The strongest Design System professionals usually understand accessibility, content structure, and front-end implementation. They also need good collaboration habits, because the work touches product, design, engineering, and sometimes brand teams. Clear communication matters as much as visual precision.
A Design System project needs someone who has shipped reusable patterns in real product work, not just created nice-looking components. If the scope includes tokens, governance, or migration from old UI patterns, you want a specialist who has handled system change before. Smaller fixes can be handled by a more focused expert.
Yes, many Design System specialists work well remotely with Berlin teams, especially when the work is documentation, component design, or system governance. On-site sessions can still help for workshops, alignment, and faster decision-making. The best setup depends on how much cross-team coordination is needed.
Look for a Design System expert who can show real examples of reuse, documentation, and collaboration across teams. Good signs are clear naming, sensible component APIs, strong accessibility awareness, and practical guidance for adoption. Be wary of portfolios that only show visuals without system thinking.
No, a Design System helps any product with repeated interface patterns, even if the team is small. It becomes especially valuable when multiple specialists touch the same UI or when the product needs to grow without losing consistency. The earlier the rules are set, the less cleanup is needed later.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Design System in their recent projects is 83 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 661 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Design System in their recent projects, 97% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 29% hold at least a Master's degree, and 3% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Design System in their recent projects have 15 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.4 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Design System in their recent projects are English (98%), German (86%), and French (22%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Design System in their recent projects are Information Technology (90%), Professional Services (49%), and Banking and Finance (43%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Design System in their recent projects are Product Development (98%), Information Technology (73%), and Marketing (65%).
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