Figma Experts in Munich

Ursula Helfer

Product Owner | Scrum Master | Finance Expert

Last position:

Subproject Lead & Scrum Master at DB Energie

Subproject management in an agile IT environment

Leading a software development team (10 employees)

Leading a software development team with 10 employees
Budget responsibility approx. 3 million Euros per year
Conducting employee and job interviews
Responsibility for resource planning (budget and employees)
Digitalization of a web interface
Regular reporting to clients and stakeholders (C-level)
Product management: developing and implementing product strategies; defining requirements to steer product development
Designing product development & continuous testing efficiently to quickly incorporate feedback & compliance points
Close collaboration with stakeholders & various teams to understand requirements, define priorities, ensure rollout, and increase user-friendliness
Project experience in an energy industry company, including the functioning of energy markets, the basics of energy generation and distribution, as well as current challenges and developments in the industry
Project experience in the railway sector - including the structure and operation of railway systems.
Project experience within the 16.7 Hz traction power sector including knowledge of regulatory processes
Formulating the subproject charter and the project profile according to the project standard together with the project management
Steering performance delivery according to the project charter
Planning and steering human resources including budget planning for the subproject
Ensuring the working capacity of subproject participants, e.g., by requesting access rights and documents for the subproject team
Planning and steering for the respective subproject (Time, Scope, Budget) including the creation of necessary documents
Coordinating with the department and Product Owners to plan the subproject scope and the corresponding implications
Conducting milestone planning according to the agreed process model
Effort estimation and support of subproject controlling as well as overall project controlling in forecasting and planning
Reporting subproject status (according to status slide template) including progress (according to progress measurement)
Analyzing, preparing, and addressing needs for action and decisions
Escalating subproject issues to project management
Creating and managing Change Requests (CR)
Quality assessment of completed task packages from a project management perspective (Time, Scope, and Budget)
Steering the implementation of cross-cutting specifications and requirements in the subproject, supported by cross-functional roles on the business and technical side.
Identifying, steering, documenting, and communicating opportunities, risks, and dependencies within and across subprojects
Supporting project management in creating the overall project plan and overall status reports
Preparing and steering commissioning including required documents and protection requirements assessment

Scrum Master in an agile IT environment supporting a software development team in the fullstack area (7 people)

Close collaboration with stakeholders & various teams to understand requirements, define priorities, ensure rollout, and increase user-friendliness
Introducing the selected Scrum method, including the required events, meetings, artifacts (Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Burndown Charts), metrics, and conducting required training in an agile IT environment
Preparing Scrum events such as Daily, Retrospectives, Review, Sprint Planning, Estimation, and Refinement (agile way of working)
Facilitating retrospectives and removing impediments to drive the team and product forward
Preparing action points and retros via Whiteboard and Figma
Applying and improving agile methods such as Kanban, Scrum, SAFe, or Scrum of Scrums
Tracking the "Definition of Done" and "Definition of Ready" for all work results of the development team
Advising on information flow and communication improvements between Product Owner and project team
Experience with automation, validation such as mandatory field checks, notification functions, creating filters, boards, and reports via JQL, and setting up Cycle Time
Using Jira & Confluence
Setting up progress measurement for project management to transparently map planned vs. actual team capacities and actual effort for user stories
Measuring team progress: creating team KPIs: "Velocity", "Burn-Down Chart", "Throughput", "Costs", "Quality", "Scope"
Evaluating agile metrics, process management, and process modeling methods (BPMN, EPC, UML)
Communication and moderation know-how
Proven methodological competence in conflict resolution discussions

Lukas Noska

Senior Product UX/UI Designer (Design System & Component Library)

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

Michael Berninger

Product Design & Design Systems Expert | Helping Startups and Companies Transform Ideas into Scalable Products

München

Last position:

Senior Product Designer at Awake Mobility GmbH

Spearheaded efforts to enhance product consistency and achieve significantly better usability, ensuring a more intuitive experience
Partnered with the founders to define a new go-to-market strategy through product discovery
Directed the process of creating a new company website from concept and wireframes to design and final implementation in Webflow
Responsive Webdesign
WCAG
Corporate Branding
Product Discovery
MVP
Product Design
User Experience
Rapid Prototyping

Ines Lukin

Sr UX/UI Designer (B2B, SaaS) Code-First Prototyping

Last position:

UX designer for AI products at freelance

Designing AI-first workflows that integrate AI into existing product experiences
Developing UX concepts for prompt management, reusable and combined prompt workflows, tagging, search and information organisation
Creating user flows, wireframes, prototypes and high-fidelity interfaces in Figma
Defining reusable UI patterns, components and interaction logic for scalable products
Exploring human-AI interaction patterns with emphasis on user control, transparency and manageable cognitive load
Translating product requirements and technical constraints into developer-ready UX/UI specifications

Markus Schrumpf

Content Expert, AI Content Architect | Intelligent UX Writing and Localization

Last position:

Co-Founder & Managing Director at dialogue gmbh

Strategic and operational overall responsibility for a specialized agency for UX Writing & Content Strategy
Product development, client acquisition, and the setup and strategic further development of UX writing systems for clients in the IT and finance sectors

Maciej Kwiatkowski

Senior Product Designer

Last position:

Founder & Senior Product Designer at MACIEJ DESIGN

Independent product design practice supporting startups and growing companies with enterprise SaaS, workflow architecture, product strategy, and AI-enabled product development.

Deliver end-to-end product design for digital products, websites, and SaaS platforms, combining product thinking, UX, visual design, and implementation.
Apply AI throughout the product lifecycle—from research, synthesis, information architecture, and prototyping to development, SEO, and content strategy.
Design and build production-ready digital products using AI-assisted workflows, enabling significantly faster iteration and delivery.
Advise founders and businesses on product positioning, UX strategy, and digital transformation.

Matthias Voit

Senior Frontend Developer & Architect

Last position:

Senior Frontend Developer / Technical Web Architect – Consent Management

Project for a leading German email and cloud service provider: As Senior Frontend Developer and Technical Web Architect, I developed an international, multi-tenant white-label consent management layer for several brands.

Main tasks:

Architecture and implementation with Vue 3, TypeScript, and Vite
Development of automated tests with Vitest and Playwright
Creation of brand-specific CMP configurations, CSS themes, i18n structures, and vendor settings
Implementation of the playout and initialization logic as well as backend integration
technical decision support, project and code documentation

Impact: Replacement of external CMP solutions with a reusable and long-term maintainable in-house base for several international brands and rollouts.

Technologies: Vue 3, TypeScript, Vite, Vitest, Playwright, IAB TCF, Google Additional Consent, i18n, Git, CI/CD.

Thies Schneider

PM & UX Lead

Last position:

Spatial UX Lead at govar

Concept, interaction and UX for XR experiences for the automotive industry
Optimizing XR experiences
Building experiences with AI

René Kunkel

Senior UX/Product Designer

Last position:

Head of UX & Design at EXPERIOR DIGITAL

UX and product strategy
digital transformation
digital brand strategy
customer experience platforms
stakeholder workshops
design leadership

Patricia Rex

UI/UX Designer

Starnberg

Last position:

Accessibility Expert at Volkswagen Financial Services

July 2024 - June 2025

Accessibility expert in UI/UX design, WCAG testing, and consulting for the Accessibility Improvement Act
Creation of an internal accessibility guide

Oskar Oldorf (Project Manager): "I had the pleasure of working with Patricia for over a year on a project focused on ensuring digital accessibility for the online presence of a company in the financial services sector. During that time, I got to know her as a dedicated, detail-oriented, and highly skilled colleague.

Patricia was responsible for independently conducting gap analyses and worked directly and efficiently with key stakeholders. Her role centered on assessing compliance with the BFSG and providing strategic guidance to editorial teams on creating accessible content.

What I particularly appreciated about Patricia was her ability to think beyond the status quo and bring fresh perspectives to the table. She combines strong subject matter expertise with a keen eye for detail and a structured, thorough approach. Her input often sparked valuable discussions and helped us move our work forward in meaningful ways.

I can wholeheartedly recommend Patricia—especially for roles where precision, strategic thinking, and a high standard of quality are essential."

Jens Rusitschka

Founder & Product Lead

Last position:

Founder & Product Lead at Kick & Boost

Established a new venture focusing on AI-powered UX and rapid prototyping
Leading the development of an AI-based prototyping framework and prompt optimization for product design
Managing stakeholder relationships and strategizing go-to-market approaches
Planning and creating coaching programs (to be launched in 2025) on AI-driven product discovery
Developed internal processes enabling prototype creation in minutes
Published best practices and insights on LinkedIn, driving industry interest and awareness

Omar Ashour

Engineering Leader · AI & Full-Stack Systems · Ex-Founder & CEO

Last position:

Senior Fullstack AI Engineer (Team Lead – B2C Platform) at mama health

Partner directly with C-level leadership (CEO, CAIO, CTO) on architecture, OKR strategy, and cross-team roadmap prioritization, translating strategic goals into structured engineering requirements.
Surfaced and mapped technical debt across the entire organization with C-level leadership and co-defined a prioritized remediation strategy, balancing debt paydown against feature delivery.
Led code reviews and technical standards across the team, fostering a mentor-first environment with two-way feedback dialogue — pairing on complex pipeline work and unblocking junior engineers on async architecture patterns.
Re-architected the AI companion's core processing pipeline from synchronous to asynchronous with a queue-based worker architecture, enabling horizontal scalability and cutting upload processing time ~4x (from ~22s to 5–10s) while improving response accuracy.
Designed an AI-driven document intelligence workflow with automatic multi-document classification, per-document summarization, and relevance guardrails for the patient care journey.
Built a unified patient memory system (short- and long-term context) bridging the document vault and chatbot into a single bidirectional, context-aware platform.

Boryana Chervilova

UX Strategist

Last position:

Founder & UX Strategist at CasaCaprichos.com

Designed and launched a curated e-commerce platform promoting sustainable Spanish craftsmanship
Conducted in-depth user research and usability testing, improving engagement metrics and retention rates
Implemented CRO strategies that increased conversion rates and reduced cart abandonment
Led brand strategy and positioning, creating a compelling visual identity and user journey aligned with eco-conscious values
Drove organic traffic growth by 25% through a mix of SEO content, UX enhancements, and social media integration.

Krzysztof Gantzke

C++ Software Developer

Last position:

C++ Software Developer at HENSOLDT AG

Development of new simulator features and extension of existing modules using C++.
GUI design and implementation with Qt for Windows, including redesigns to improve usability and workflow.
Maintenance and expansion of existing codebase: refactoring, bug fixes, and modularization to support new capabilities.
Version control using Git.
Performance optimization of simulation to meet real-time constraints.
Creating and maintaining documentation: technical comments, design docs, API references and user manuals.
Led a redesign that improved operator workflow and reduced task completion time.
Extended simulator architecture to support multiple new scenario types while preserving backward compatibility.
Implemented refactoring and modularization that simplified maintenance and accelerated feature delivery.
Technologies: C++03, Qt4.6, QMake, Git, V-Model, Windows

Marcus Biel