User Research Expert in Frankfurt
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Alexander H.
Last position:
Senior Product & Strategy Consultant at hegehofer.consulting
Design, development, and market launch of digital products and platforms – from strategic alignment and agile implementation to Go-to-Market and Go-Live, integrating AI into processes and products
Max B.
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.
Rosana P.
Last position:
Senior Product Designer and UX Expert at Several clients
Helping startups understand their users, turning ideas into products that reach PMF and are worth scaling. Partnering with agencies who need product expertise for specific projects.
- Established usability best practices that minimized design debt in early-stage product development.
- Supporting agencies as a senior product design partner for client projects.
Björn K.
Last position:
UXUI Design at Valantic GmbH, Porsche AG
Created compelling visual design system for My Porsche Charging App, translating premium automotive brand DNA into digital interfaces serving 150,000+ luxury vehicle owners.
Jochen D.
Last position:
Research Associate at Steinbeis Innovationszentrum Innovation Engineering
Part-time position in a federally funded research project
Florentin S.
Last position:
Freelance UI/UX Designer at fintus GmbH
- Concept and UI design for cloud-based banking platforms and SaaS loan process automation, including AI-supported document validation.
- UX optimization of the loan application flow, expansion of the design system, and building a scalable white-label solution.
Mathew D.
Last position:
Data Science Expert and AI Strategist at Freelancer
- Built an API to ingest, clean, translate, and index EU tenders documents in Neo4j, enabling hybrid search with RAG and Cypher queries via a Streamlit dashboard
- Deployed the API on AWS Lightsail container services with CI/CD automation via GitHub Actions, ensuring stability through pytest unit and integration tests
- Designed and developed a comprehensive online course on data analysis using ChatGPT for professionals and learners, creating instructional videos and interactive Jupyter notebooks
- Utilized OBS and professional audio equipment to ensure high-quality video and audio content
- Led a CRM data normalization and cleaning project visualized via a Sankey diagram to aid customer understanding and pipeline development
- Implemented and validated a genAI-driven web crawling strategy on AWS, ensuring data quality, scalability, and CRM data augmentation
Alessandro D.
Last position:
Product Owner, Scrum Master & UX Design at YouniQode GmbH
- Responsible for the strategic and operational management of digital agency projects with a focus on user-centered product development, agile team leadership, and continuous value delivery
- Introduced and scaled agile processes (Scrum & Kanban) across multiple client projects
- Developed user-centered B2B and B2C applications in close collaboration with stakeholders
- Successfully delivered MVPs with iterative enhancements based on validated user insights
- Technologies and methods: Scrum, Kanban, Jira, Confluence, Figma, UX Research, User Testing, Design Thinking, Agile Coaching, Backlog Management, Epic Breakdown, User Story Mapping, Prototyping, Roadmap Planning, Stakeholder Workshops, HTML/CSS, WordPress, Accessibility (WCAG), DSGVO, OKRs, Product Discovery, Sprint Planning, Retrospectives, UX KPIs
Samet P.
Last position:
Technical Product Owner & Rollout Manager at EY
- Provided leadership as Product Owner for the DMS module in an agile multi-team setup
- Coordinated the nationwide rollout including requirements management and roadmap development
- Built and maintained the product backlog focusing on scalability, usability and data protection
- Conducted sprint reviews, refinements and stakeholder demos with over 15 involved teams
- Developed a rollout and training concept for successful launch at over 200 government agencies
- Introduced a reporting and monitoring dashboard to measure usage success
- Worked closely with architects, QA and operations to ensure integration into the existing system landscape
Kamran V.
Last position:
Agile Delivery Manager at Sparecodes Incorporation
- Highly successful role as lead data analytics expert at a US consulting startup.
- Managed stakeholder expectations by ensuring team delivery velocity using Agile and Lean practices.
- Trained and assembled international offshore data science teams of DevOps engineers, BI developers, and technical support specialists.
- As Sparecodes' data analytics experts, we improved our clients’ business outcomes through requirements management, dashboard and report development, migration, automation, and production support using IBM Cognos, AWS, SAP, Oracle, Teradata, CRM, ERP, Confluence, and Microsoft.
- Provided effective coaching and mentoring for international, multicultural teams in a remote environment, covering new tools and techniques, Agile best practices, internal and external communication, and presentation skills.
- Coordinated technical processes efficiently, including managing and implementing project changes and control processes.
- Promoted strong team engagement and supported employees’ career development, including business change management through coaching.
- Enhanced project status reports by providing insights into team productivity, predictability, and backlog burn-down, leading to improved project outcomes.
- Successfully led the coordination and implementation of software solutions for clients in mechanical engineering, including automation system integration and customization to meet client needs.
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Statistics of experts using User Research
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
17 years (Germany: 15 years)
Position duration
2.6 years (Germany: 2.3 years)
Positions per freelancer
11 (Germany: 9)
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Marketing
Top industries
Information Technology, Professional Services, Automotive
Certification focus areas
Project Management, Product Development, Information Technology
Bachelor's degree or higher
90% (Germany: 95%)
Master's degree or higher
40% (Germany: 57%)
Doctorate
10% (Germany: 5%)
Certifications per freelancer
2
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
100% (Germany: 98%)
Based on our profile pool as of 30 Oct 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of experts in this technology in Frankfurt are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows the share of experts charging within that range.
Average rates of experts in Frankfurt using User Research
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 Oct 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
User Research experts industry focus
See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.
- Information Technology (90%)
- Professional Services (80%)
- Automotive (60%)
- Healthcare (50%)
- Manufacturing (50%)
- Retail (50%)
- Telecommunication (50%)
- Banking and Finance (40%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
What User Research covers
User Research is the systematic study of people, their goals and the context in which they use a product or service. It combines qualitative methods such as interviews and usability tests with quantitative evidence from surveys, analytics and experiments. The result is practical insight for better product decisions.
Where it creates value
Research supports digital products, services and internal tools across finance, healthcare, mobility, retail and public services. In Frankfurt, teams often use it to understand complex customer journeys, validate new propositions and improve multilingual experiences for local and international users.
- Explore user needs and unmet problems
- Test concepts, prototypes and information architecture
- Identify friction in onboarding and key workflows
- Translate findings into product priorities
Methods and tooling
Strong specialists select methods to fit the decision, not the other way around. Their toolkit may include moderated or unmoderated usability testing, contextual inquiry, diary studies, card sorting, surveys and remote interviews. They work with tools such as Dovetail, UserTesting, Lookback, Qualtrics, Figma and analytics platforms.
When companies bring in specialists
Freelance expertise helps when an assumption needs testing before investment, when a product team lacks research capacity or when existing data does not explain user behavior. Specialists can set the research question, recruit suitable participants, create discussion guides, run sessions and deliver an evidence-based readout. They also help teams build a repeatable research practice.
- A redesign has unclear user priorities
- Stakeholders disagree about a product problem
- A new market or audience needs discovery
- Product metrics show friction without explaining why
What a solid engagement delivers
A focused engagement starts with a clear decision to support and a realistic participant plan. Deliverables can include a research plan, interview or test script, recordings and notes, a thematic analysis, journey maps, personas, opportunity areas and prioritized recommendations. Findings should connect directly to product, service or business choices.
What distinguishes strong professionals
The best professionals separate observation from interpretation and make uncertainty visible. They ask neutral questions, handle sensitive topics carefully and avoid treating a small sample as universal proof. They communicate clearly with product, design, engineering and leadership teams, protect participant privacy and make findings easy to act on. For remote or on-site collaboration in Frankfurt, language ability and cultural awareness can be just as important as method expertise.
Frequently asked questions
Key details about User Research, drawn from the questions we get asked most.
User Research helps companies understand user goals, behaviors, pain points and decision criteria. It informs product discovery, service design, usability improvements, content strategy and validation of concepts before significant implementation work.
User Research focuses on how people experience and use a specific product, service or workflow. Market research often examines audiences, competitors and demand, while analytics shows what users do at scale; research helps explain the reasons behind those patterns.
A strong User Research specialist may also contribute service design, product strategy, UX writing, information architecture or survey design. Familiarity with prototyping tools, product analytics and workshop facilitation makes findings easier to connect to delivery decisions.
User Research projects vary with the decision, audience and risk involved. A focused usability study may need a compact engagement, while discovery across several user groups requires more planning, recruitment and synthesis. The specialist should define a proportionate scope rather than prescribe a fixed process.
Yes, User Research works well remotely through video interviews, screen sharing, diary tasks and unmoderated tests. On-site sessions can add value when physical environments, service interactions or local context matter. For Frankfurt teams, agree early on remote collaboration, on-site needs and the languages participants use.
Good User Research links a clear question to an appropriate method and transparent evidence. Review the participant fit, discussion guide, analysis approach and limits of the conclusions. Recommendations should identify the observed issue, its importance and the decision it supports.
User Research methods answer different questions. Interviews reveal motivations and context, usability tests expose interaction problems, and surveys help compare attitudes or behaviors across a broader audience. An experienced specialist combines methods only when each adds useful evidence.
A User Research engagement commonly produces a research plan, session materials, organized evidence, a synthesis of themes and prioritized findings. Depending on the brief, useful additions include journey maps, personas, recordings, opportunity statements and a workshop that helps the team apply the results.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used User Research in their recent projects is 92 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 736 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used User Research in their recent projects, 90% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 40% hold at least a Master's degree, and 10% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used User Research in their recent projects have 17 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.6 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used User Research in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and French (20%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used User Research in their recent projects are Information Technology (90%), Professional Services (80%), and Automotive (60%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used User Research in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (100%), and Marketing (70%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used User Research
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