Storybook Experts in Germany
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Oliver Kierepka
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
Lukas Noska
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
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
Ines Lukin
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
Manuel KĂĽbler
Last position:
.NET Developer, SAP Business One Consultant at Own Projects
- DTO class generator: In-house development of a tool for the automatic generation of classes, functions, and methods for use in .NET Core projects based on SAP Business One Service Layer metadata
- E-invoice import add-on: Development of a SAP Business One add-on / coresuite module for the automated import of ZUGFeRD e-invoices as incoming invoices – with configurable mapping to flexibly control the import logic across four mapping types (DIRECT, SQL, FIXED, EXPR). The add-on is available as a licensed product for SAP Business One customers.
Stack: SAP Business One, SAP Business One Service Layer, coresuite Country Package, C#
Matthias Voit
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.
Piet Althoff
Last position:
Founder at RubberMetrics.com
- Self-hosted table tennis equipment platform.
- Development of a custom “Racket Builder” that uses a co-evolutionary genetic algorithm to identify, evaluate, and recommend the optimal combinations of racket blades and rubbers based on physics heuristics and player data within a search space of over 4 billion combinations.
- Development of a custom fully automated web crawler to capture equipment specifications, integrating an automated pipeline for image normalization as well as data harmonization via DeepSeek.
- Cloudflare Edge Workers written in Rust to perform low-latency data searches and offload computationally intensive simulations from the main server.
- High performance and accessibility standards across a large Nuxt 4 codebase achieving 95–100/100/100 Lighthouse scores.
David Backhausen
Last position:
Founder / Fullstack Product Engineer / UX Designer at Ondoko
- Built a complete real-time multiplayer platform with game engine, lobby system, game tables, spectator mode, and persistent game history.
- Implemented product-relevant multiplayer workflows with WebSocket communication, live synchronization, voice chat, mobile app features, and push notifications.
- Developed a scalable full-stack architecture with authentication, PostgreSQL persistence, premium/billing integration, and extensive test coverage.
Christof Hlipala
Last position:
Senior Frontend Developer at HUK24 AG
- Designing new apps as well as enhancing and running 29 Angular apps for digital claims in an Nx monorepo
- Maintaining and improving a shared component library with ~300 libraries for multiple product teams
- Migrating all apps to a new design system including its component library and systematic refactoring
- Developing and maintaining the CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Terraform, AWS)
- Managing releases independently including branch handling, versioning, PR coordination and production deployment
- Implementing and maintaining tracking (Adobe Analytics)
- Ensuring accessibility according to BFSG/WCAG
- Test-driven development (TDD) with Jest and Cypress
- Code reviews, mentoring and setting up best practices in the team
- Technologies: TypeScript, Angular 16-20, RxJS, NgRx, Nx (Monorepo), npm, HTML, (S)CSS, Storybook, Jest, Cypress, Cucumber, Husky, Node.js, Git, AWS, Azure DevOps (Repos & Pipelines), Jenkins, Terraform, TDD, BFSG, WCAG, Nexus, IntelliJ, Adobe Analytics
Nomaira Fariah
Last position:
Freelance Product Designer / Design Engineer at Independent
- Design and build client web apps and self-directed products end-to-end, covering product design, design systems, and full-stack front-end on React, TypeScript, Tailwind, and Supabase.
- Designed and shipped a compliance and staff-records web application for a UK transport operator, covering data modelling, UX, and front-end build on Supabase with row-level security and Edge Functions.
- Built Merita, a private-by-default achievement-tracking and performance-review app, in a 48-hour hackathon (SheBuilds). It covers win logging linked to goals and competency frameworks, AI-assembled review packets with token-gated sharing, and a Promotion Readiness view, and is built on React, TypeScript, Tailwind, shadcn/ui and Supabase with row-level security and Edge Functions.
- Designed and built Pantressa, a grocery-tracking, meal-planning and budgeting app, owning product design through front-end delivery on React, TypeScript, Tailwind and Supabase.
Dennis Schuchardt
Last position:
Lead Full Stack at Self-employed
- Billing software for the second-highest security authority of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Passed security clearance level 2
- Frontend and backend development
- Consulting on the introduction, design, implementation, and development of technical components
- Code reviews, component testing, module testing, group module testing
- Implementation of UI/UX design
- Used technologies: HTML, CSS/SCSS, JavaScript, Node.js, Vue 3, PrimeVue, Webpack, Vuex, Momentum, Jest, NPM, Lodash, Java 17, Spring Boot, Lombok, GraphQL, JUnit, Maven, Keycloak, Python, Docker, CI/CD, Kubernetes, Oracle SQL, Postman, Storybook, Microservices, Monorepo, Jira, Confluence, Scrum, GitLab, AWS, IntelliJ, Visual Studio Code, Neovim, XLSX, responsive Webdesign, BITV 2.0 (U.S. Section 508) / WCAG 2.2
Mykhaylo Khazanovych
Last position:
Lead Developer Backend, Frontend, BPMN / Administrator at Main Customs Office, Department for Digital Affairs
- Development of backend, frontend and BPMN processes in the Atlas Centralised Clearance for Import project
- Definition and implementation of REST, JMS and SOAP endpoints
- Implementation of database access with JPA
- Implementation of BPMN processes with Camunda
- Frontend implementation with React
- Configuration of JBoss via CLI
- Conducting code reviews
- Participation in communities of practice for developers and architects
- Implementation of frontend-backend communication with WebSockets
Marcus Brose
Last position:
Alpecin.de - Dr. Wolff Group
- Development of a component library based on a design system for several international brands such as Alpecin, Karex, Linola and Plantur 39
- Integration of headless CMS, PIM and commerce solutions
- UI/UX development
- Prototype development
- MVP development
- API design and development
- SaaS development (whitelabel/multi-tenant)
- Headless CMS integration
- Design systems Digital signage
- Internationalization (i18n)
- Javascript
- Component library
- Tailwind CSS
- Storybook
- HTML
- Vue 3
- Storyblok
- Github Actions
- SEO
- i18n Theming
- React
Patrik Garten
Last position:
Technical Lead Conversational AI at CANCOM
- Technical lead of a team developing agentic chatbot solutions (React, TypeScript, Python, FastAPI)
- Architecture design for multi-LLM dialog systems - focus on maintainability, UX, and autonomous execution
- Stakeholder alignment, CI/CD processes, and AI integration at enterprise level
Siegfried-Thor Bolz
Last position:
AI Solutions Architect & Developer at E-Commerce
- Integrated LangChain middleware between AEM and SAP PIM system
- Developed a FastAPI interface for system communication
- Implemented vector embeddings for semantic product search
- Evaluated LLM models (Vertex AI/Gemini, LM Studio, Hugging Face, OpenAI) for product analysis
- Developed an AEM component to display product recommendations and integrated the recommendation API into the AEM authoring process
- Designed and implemented Pinecone vector database for product embeddings
- Optimized response times and caching strategies
- Evaluated Vertex AI Studio for LLM testing and prompt workflows
- Implemented secure API routing and access control for AI components via FastAPI and gateway validation
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Statistics of experts using Storybook
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
17 years
Position duration
1.6 years
Positions per freelancer
14
Top business areas
Product Development, Information Technology, Quality Assurance
Top industries
Information Technology, Retail, Automotive
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Operations
Bachelor's degree or higher
91%
Master's degree or higher
39%
Doctorate
2%
Certifications per freelancer
1
Most common languages
German, English, Russian
Speak two or more languages
98%
Based on our profile pool as of 30 Aug 2026.
Daily rate distribution
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Average rates of experts in Germany using Storybook
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
Component work
Storybook is used to develop and review interface components outside the full application. It helps teams document variants, states, and edge cases in a way that is easy to share with product, design, and engineering. For companies in Germany, it is often part of modern frontend delivery for web apps and design systems.
Common setups
- React, Vue, Angular, or Web Components stories
- Design-system catalogs and living style guides
- Visual checks for states, themes, and responsive behavior
- Interaction examples with controls, actions, and args
- Docs that support handoff across teams
Ecosystem skills
Strong Storybook specialists know the surrounding tooling, not just the UI. That includes component-driven development, test runners, accessibility checks, CSS-in-JS, and package workflows. In Germany, teams often expect clear English documentation and smooth collaboration across product and design.
When to bring help
Companies bring in freelance expertise when a component library becomes hard to maintain, when stories drift from real UI behavior, or when a design system needs structure. It also helps during framework migrations, monorepo setup, and rollout of review standards. Good specialists make Storybook useful for daily work, not just demos.
What good experts do
- keep stories small, clear, and close to real usage
- cover loading, empty, error, and edge states
- align components with tokens, themes, and accessibility needs
- support stable documentation and review flows
- reduce friction between design, frontend, and QA
Signs you need it
If teams rely on screenshots, debate UI details late, or ship components without shared examples, Storybook can help. It is also useful when multiple specialists work on the same interface and need one place to check behavior. For remote teams, it creates a common reference that avoids long review cycles.
Frequently asked questions
Curious about Storybook? Here are the answers that come up again and again.
Storybook is used to build and review UI components in isolation. Teams use it to document variants, states, and interactions before those parts are wired into the full app. It is especially useful for design systems and reusable component libraries.
Storybook sits closer to real code than a static mockup tool. Compared with full application previews, it focuses on single components and their states, which makes review faster and more precise. It is not a replacement for end-to-end testing, but it fills a different gap.
A strong Storybook specialist usually knows the frontend framework in use, component-driven development, and test tooling around the UI. Accessibility, theming, and documentation are also important. In many projects, experience with design systems and package-based workflows matters just as much.
A Storybook setup can be small or quite involved, depending on the number of components and the maturity of the design system. Simple story files may need only focused support, while larger teams often need deeper experience with architecture and maintenance. The right level depends on whether the work is new setup, cleanup, or long-term support.
Yes, Storybook work is often well suited to remote collaboration. Stories, docs, and visual review can be shared clearly across locations, which is helpful for distributed teams in Germany and beyond. On-site time can still help at the start of a design-system rollout or during stakeholder workshops.
Ask which frameworks and add-ons they have used with Storybook, how they handle edge states, and how they keep stories aligned with the real UI. It also helps to ask how they support accessibility and whether they can work inside your component and build setup. A good specialist should explain their process in plain language.
Good Storybook work is easy to browse, accurate, and close to the shipped interface. Look for stories that cover real states, clear naming, consistent structure, and useful docs for other specialists. If the setup helps teams make decisions faster, it is doing its job.
No, Storybook is useful anywhere reusable UI needs clear examples and review. It supports product teams, component libraries, and complex interfaces with many states. Design systems are a common use case, but not the only one.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used Storybook in their recent projects is 93 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 747 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used Storybook in their recent projects, 91% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 39% hold at least a Master's degree, and 2% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Germany who have used Storybook in their recent projects have 17 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 1.6 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used Storybook in their recent projects are German (100%), English (98%), and Russian (15%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used Storybook in their recent projects are Information Technology (98%), Retail (61%), and Automotive (51%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used Storybook in their recent projects are Product Development (100%), Information Technology (98%), and Quality Assurance (49%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Storybook
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