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Ankit Handa

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Project & Product Manager | Global MBA (Berlin) | SAFe® 6 Certified | Driving Agile Digital Transformation Across SaaS & ERP

Berlin
Ankit Handa

Last position:

AI Evaluation Analyst at Turing

Driving AI model quality at scale — evaluating prompt-response accuracy, flagging edge cases, and maintaining SLA-compliant workflows across distributed global teams.

  • Analyse AI prompts and side-by-side model outputs to assess response quality, factual accuracy, relevance, consistency, and compliance with project evaluation guidelines.
  • Perform fact-checking, data validation, troubleshooting, issue identification, and edge-case review to improve quality standards across AI training support workflows.
  • Use Google Sheets, Google Docs, and browser-based tools to document findings, maintain evaluation logs, track issue patterns, and support workflow optimisation in a remote environment.
  • Create clear written justifications, review summaries, and KPI-oriented reporting focused on accuracy, turnaround time, documentation completeness, defect identification rate, and SLA adherence.
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Martina Büttner-Leibovici

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UX Lead / Product Design Manager

Berlin
Martina Büttner-Leibovici

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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

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Lukas Noska

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

Munich
Lukas Noska

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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

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Daniel B.

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IT Rollout & Transformation Manager

Koblenz
Daniel B.

Last position:

Rollout Manager Retail Sales at BMW AG

  • Led the setup and delivery of THE NEW RETAIL process and IT infrastructure for the BMW Group across major European automotive markets.
  • Managed the enablement of local IT systems and on-site personnel to support smooth operations and service delivery.
  • Conducted hands-on training sessions with local teams, providing process walkthroughs tailored to market-specific requirements.
  • Identified key challenges during rollout preparation and implemented real-time improvements to increase efficiency and ensure a smooth launch.
  • Designed and implemented key performance indicators (KPIs) to monitor and optimize the end-to-end (E2E) sales and delivery process, improving customer experience.
  • Ensured alignment of processes with organizational goals and market-specific requirements to support scalability and operational excellence.
  • Stakeholder engagement and communication: worked closely with local teams to ensure alignment and clarity in processes.
  • Problem solving and adaptability: proactively identified challenges and delivered real-time solutions to address market-specific needs.
  • Training and leadership: empowered local teams through targeted training and ongoing support during rollout execution.
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Malte Koslowski

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Strategic Business Development & Product Design

Berlin
Malte Koslowski

Last position:

Interim Head of Marketing & Digital Business Development at FORIS AG

Established legal and financial service provider building a new digital business area for founding, tax, and compliance services.

  • Developed and launched the service offering as segmented service and pricing packages in under 5 months.
  • Designed a seamless digital user experience from ad contact to landing pages and order flow through to completion.
  • Worked out the strategic direction with the business unit lead and the board, and managed the operational rollout in a five-person team.
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André Rodrigues

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UI/UX Designer / AI Designer

Heilbronn
André Rodrigues

Last position:

UX/UI & AI Designer at Freelancer

  • Designed web and mobile interfaces, user flows, and design systems in Figma, Adobe XD, Motif, and Lovable, ensuring WCAG 2.1/2.2 accessibility.
  • Conducted UX research and delivered responsive websites and e-commerce on WordPress® and Squarespace®, Webflow®.
  • Integrated AI-generated imagery (syntography) and AI video creation into branding, prototypes, and editorial projects.
  • Lead visual design, creative direction, and client collaboration to deliver functional, innovative, and visually compelling digital experiences.
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Christian Mühlbauer

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Senior/Lead Product & Service Designer

München
Christian Mühlbauer

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Senior/Lead Product & Service Designer at Freelance

  • Delivered end-to-end product & service design (discovery to delivery) — combining Product discovery, UX/UI Design and Prototyping within an agile delivery framework.
  • Applied AI-assisted workflows across research and prototyping to accelerate discovery and validation cycles.
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Peter Spiegel

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Senior UX Consultant · Product & Service Design

Berlin
Peter Spiegel

Last position:

Service & Strategic Experience Designer at Strategic Consulting & End-to-End Design

  • Concept and implementation of data-heavy platforms for enterprise customers
  • Design of complex AI-based interactions (chatbots, voice control, semantic search)
  • Stakeholder management with more than 10 participants in cross-functional teams
  • User research: interviews, usability tests, value validation
  • Definition of quality metrics and execution of value analyses

Tools & methods: Figma, Adobe XD, Miro, Chat GPT, Claude | Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Lean UX

Selected clients: VW Group, Volkswagen, BMW, Cariad, ABUS, Gieseke & Devrient, Hamburg Senate Chancellery, German Red Cross, Deutsche Bahn, Immoscout24, Relynk

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Yogesh Malik

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GenAI Senior UX/UI Designer

Fürstenwalde/Spree
Yogesh Malik

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Principle Architect – User Experience Design at Intelliswift India PLC

Project: Neura Belden BHVA (Belden HI vision Virtual Assistance)

  • Translated AI agent concepts into 4 distinct user workflows (General, Redundancy, Network, VLAN agents).
  • Designed 6 game-changing features with technical specifications: Predictive Issue Resolution, Cost Optimization Engine, Compliance Automation, Cross-Agent Orchestration, Knowledge Transfer Mode, Root Cause Analysis 2.0.
  • Contributed reusable UX patterns and lightweight standards for experimentation-first AI environment: single-file HTML/CSS/JS prototypes, semantic accessibility, responsive grid layouts, and clear component structure enabling rapid future POC iterations.
  • Translated early AI concepts into intuitive user workflows and interaction models for 4 specialized agents, focusing on clarity, trust-building, and progressive disclosure to surface complex AI capabilities.
  • Documented design trade-offs in accessible language for non-designers.
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Robert Ehlers

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Digital Innovation & Experience Consulting

Berlin
Robert Ehlers

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Consultant Digital Innovation & Experience at self employed

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Ananthraj Narasappa

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Founder

Munich
Ananthraj Narasappa

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Founder at sprhava

Leading the end-to-end development of Edge AI-powered smart glasses for visually impaired individuals, aligning product vision with user needs and managing a cross-functional team of data scientists, Android developers, AWS engineers, and hardware specialists.

  • Defined product roadmap for Edge AI smart glasses and MVP features through user research, stakeholder interviews, and competitive analysis, ensuring accessibility and real-world usability.
  • Developed and validated a PoC for AI-driven cancer cell identification in PET/CT scans, collaborating with medical experts to optimize diagnostic accuracy and clinical relevance.
  • Built and scaled a multidisciplinary team of 75+ engineers, interns, and designers across Germany and India, driving cross-border collaboration and iterative prototyping.
  • Established strategic partnerships with NGOs, healthcare providers, and advocacy groups to embed inclusivity and patient feedback into product design.
  • Drove hands-on hardware-software integration using Raspberry Pi and Jetson Nano of AI models. Initiated and nurtured relationships with suppliers, manufacturers, and ecosystem players to build scalable go-to-market plans.
  • Owned critical product decisions, from prototype development to funding strategy, applying a data-informed and impact-driven mindset.
  • Fostered a learning-focused culture by facilitating brainstorming sessions and continuous feedback loops between engineering and product.

Achievements:

  • Public speaker: Auto.Ai 2025 (Berlin), Wearable technologies 2025 (Munich and Bangalore), MEDICA 2024 (Dusseldorf)
  • WMF, Bologna, Italy (June 2024): Only AI startup to be selected from Germany as EBV hero to represent sprhava on global platform
  • Medica, Germany (2024): Delivered a speech on AI smart glasses in world's largest Healthcare event.
  • Wearable Technologies, Bengaluru, India (Dec 2024): I was a speaker presenting sprhava and its product.
  • Venturise Global Challenge (GIM 2025, Bengaluru Palace, Karnataka): sprhava was selected as one of the 16 top startups (ESDM) to present on this global platform
  • Wearable Technologies Conference 2025 EUROPE, Munich, Germany (May 2025): Delivered a talk on Edge AI at the Europe's biggest wearable tech event.
  • InsurNext Köln, Germany (2025): sprhava was honoured with a booth from Cologne administration.
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Aleksandra Maslon

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Senior Product Designer | Product Strategy | AI | Enterprise SaaS

Berlin
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
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Max Bucher

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Senior UX Architect & Certified Product Owner

Frankfurt am Main
Max Bucher

Last position:

Customer Portal (Telecommunications) at Freelance Senior UX Architect

  • Drove key experience streams in the redesign of a large-scale telecommunications e-commerce platform focusing on mobile plan selection, product configuration, and digital contract completion.
  • Delivered scalable Figma-based white-label solutions within a multinational Scrum setup to enable efficient multi-brand rollout.
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Fabian Oechsner

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Head of Product / Product Owner

Hamburg
Fabian Oechsner

Last position:

Head of Product / Product Owner at XXXLdigital (XXXLutz KG)

  • Developing a product vision and strategy

  • Creating a roadmap

  • Improving stakeholder communication

  • Introducing an outcome-oriented roadmap

  • Aligning with stakeholders and creating transparency

  • Defining relevant product metrics as a KPI tree

  • Initiating measures to improve product quality and measurability

  • Supporting the introduction and migration of the new Identity Provider (IDP)

Discover over 15,000 top freelancers

Statistics of experts using User-Centered Design

Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.

Experience

16 years

Position duration

2.6 years

Positions per freelancer

9

Top business areas

Product Development, Information Technology, Project Management

Top industries

Information Technology, Professional Services, Media and Entertainment

Certification focus areas

Product Development, Information Technology, Project Management

Bachelor's degree or higher

87%

Master's degree or higher

32%

Doctorate

2%

Certifications per freelancer

2

Most common languages

German, English, French

Speak two or more languages

95%

Based on our profile pool as of 30 Aug 2026.

Daily rate distribution

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Average rates of experts in Germany using User-Centered Design

Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.

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Daily rate avg. 770 €

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Median rate 760 €

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

User-Centered Design focuses on how real people use a product, not just how it looks. It turns research, testing, and clear task flows into interfaces that are easier to understand and use. In German product teams, UCD often sits between product, design, and delivery work.

Typical deliverables

  • User research plans and interview guides
  • Personas, journeys, and task flows
  • Wireframes and interactive prototypes
  • Usability test scripts and findings
  • Design decisions tied to user needs

Where it is used

User-Centered Design is common in SaaS, e-commerce, public services, healthcare, and internal tools. It helps teams simplify complex forms, reduce drop-off, and design screens that match real work. Strong specialists also adapt UCD for content-heavy products and regulated environments.

Skills around it

A strong UCD specialist works with research, information architecture, interaction design, and accessibility. They know how to translate feedback into clear product changes and align stakeholders around evidence. Many teams also look for people who can work fluently with UX design, service design, and product discovery.

When companies bring in help

  • A redesign is blocked by unclear user needs
  • Research exists, but it is not shaping delivery
  • Teams need faster validation before release
  • The product is complex and hard to learn
  • Internal experts need support on best practice

What strong specialists do

Good professionals ask the right questions, test early, and keep the process practical. They do not stop at opinions; they connect observations to design choices and measurable product goals. For companies in Germany, remote collaboration works well for research, workshops, and reviews, while on-site sessions can help with interviews and stakeholder alignment.

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Frequently asked questions

Need clarity? These are the questions we hear most often about User-Centered Design.

User-Centered Design is used to shape products around real user tasks, needs, and context. It is common in product discovery, interface design, service flows, and usability testing. Companies use it when they want fewer friction points and clearer paths to completion.

User-Centered Design is narrower and more method-driven than the broader term UX design. It focuses on understanding users, testing assumptions, and improving the product through evidence. Design thinking can support the process, but UCD is usually more specific about research and validation.

A strong User-Centered Design specialist should bring research, synthesis, wireframing, and testing skills. They should explain why a design decision helps users and how it supports product goals. Good work also includes clear handover notes that teams can apply in delivery.

User-Centered Design often works best alongside accessibility, information architecture, content design, and interaction design. Product strategy and analytics are also useful because they help connect user needs with business priorities. In many projects, workshop facilitation is just as important as visual output.

The right User-Centered Design profile depends on the complexity of the product and how much research is already in place. A small scope may need one specialist for testing and refinement, while a larger initiative may need deeper research and service design support. The key is proven work on similar product challenges.

Yes, User-Centered Design can work very well remotely for interviews, synthesis sessions, workshops, and review cycles. Many German companies mix remote collaboration with a few on-site sessions for stakeholder alignment or sensitive user research. Clear scheduling and language expectations matter more than location alone.

Look for clear reasoning, not just polished screens. A strong User-Centered Design professional shows how they discovered user needs, tested ideas, and revised the solution based on evidence. Ask for case studies that include the problem, the method, and the decisions made.

Yes, User-Centered Design and analytics solve different parts of the problem. Analytics shows where users struggle, but it rarely explains why. UCD adds the human context needed to design better flows, content, and interactions.

The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used User-Centered Design in their recent projects is 96 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 770 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers in Germany who have used User-Centered Design in their recent projects, 87% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 32% hold at least a Master's degree, and 2% hold a doctorate.

On average, freelancers in Germany who have used User-Centered Design in their recent projects have 16 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.6 years.

The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used User-Centered Design in their recent projects are German (96%), English (96%), and French (21%).

The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used User-Centered Design in their recent projects are Information Technology (88%), Professional Services (55%), and Media and Entertainment (44%).

The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used User-Centered Design in their recent projects are Product Development (98%), Information Technology (82%), and Project Management (63%).

Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used User-Centered Design

Our freelancers and interim experts are at home across the DACH region — available on-site in the major business hubs or fully remote. Choose a location to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.

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