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Christian (Schulze) Aquack

UX/UI Designer

Christian Aquack
Berlin, Germany

Experience

Jan 2024 - Present
2 years 2 months

UX/UI Designer

DramaOnline

  • Directed a cross-functional team to redesign an online planning platform for theater lessons, prioritizing intuitive user flows and delivering an enhanced user experience.

  • Designed wireframes and prototypes to optimize user account setup, onboarding, lesson management, and dashboard functionality through iterative refinement and user testing.

  • Refined the existing brand design to improve accessibility and ensure inclusivity.

  • Developed responsive, interactive designs in Webflow, producing clean HTML, CSS, and JavaScript using BEM styling, ensuring seamless integration with a full-stack developer.

Jan 2024 - Jun 2024
6 months

Strategic UX/UI Designer

Streamalyzr

  • Led the dashboard redesign, mentoring a junior UX/UI designer, managing stakeholder communication, and overseeing project timelines and deliverables.

  • Conducted market and user research to identify requirements, resolve pain points, and align technical, business, and user goals.

  • Designed wireframes and prototypes using Atomic Design principles, improving usability and accessibility through iterative testing.

  • Identified usability issues and advocated for user needs while preserving core functionality.

  • Revamped the dashboard’s key feature by simplifying user flows, enhancing filter functionality, and optimizing data presentation through targeted feature refinements.

  • Streamlined the information architecture for 74 pages and 34 subcategories.

  • Overhauled the visual interface and incorporated a complete product brand redesign.

  • Developed a design system with detailed documentation for seamless developer handoff.

Sep 2023 - Jun 2024
10 months

UX/UI Designer

ATLAS.ti

  • Collaborated with stakeholders, a UX/UI design agency, and a global e-commerce company to analyze problems, develop solutions, and implement a new brand design.

  • Designed a unified interface that improved accessibility while aligning with business requirements, including partner login, compliance, and more.

  • Streamlined the checkout process from 7 to 5 pages by applying UX and information design principles.

  • Optimized the user experience by enhancing clarity, consistency, readability, visual hierarchy, and user-friendly copy, resulting in a more intuitive and accessible platform.

May 2023 - Oct 2023
6 months

Webflow Designer

Anto & Mama

  • Consulted stakeholders to align user, technical, and business requirements, ensuring a shared vision and seamless project execution through communication and collaboration.

  • Designed a sleek, modern brand identity through storytelling, including a distinct logo that reflected the fashion label’s narrative and established a strong visual foundation.

  • Developed a responsive, fluid, and dynamic e-commerce interface tailored for fashion products, leveraging Webflow for seamless content management.

  • Integrated language APIs, popular payment methods, and social media connections for Facebook and Instagram to enhance functionality and user engagement.

Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
1 year

Branding and Art Direction

Diametos

  • Created high-impact marketing assets and visual designs for two AI-based sound analysis and diagnostic iOS applications (Snorefox and Somnofox) for both B2B and B2C.

  • Boosted brand visibility and engagement by conceptualizing assets such as sales pitches, product visuals, flyers, statistics, and trade fair booth for industry exhibitions.

Aug 2021 - Oct 2021
3 months

Art Director

Braingrade

  • Developed and strategized sales pitches that secured financing rounds, advancing Braingrade’s innovative brain-computer interface technology for Alzheimer’s patients.

  • Combined UX/UI expertise with data-driven insights to craft presentations that effectively communicated the potential of neurotechnology solutions for cognitive enhancement.

Jun 2021 - Dec 2021
7 months

UX/UI Designer

Anto & Mama

  • Consulted stakeholders to align user, technical, and business requirements, ensuring a shared vision and seamless project execution through communication and collaboration.

  • Designed a sleek, modern brand identity through storytelling, including a distinct logo that reflected the fashion label’s narrative and established a strong visual foundation.

  • Developed a responsive, fluid, and dynamic e-commerce interface tailored for fashion products, leveraging Webflow for seamless content management.

  • Integrated language APIs, popular payment methods, and social media connections for Facebook and Instagram to enhance functionality and user engagement.

Sep 2020 - Nov 2020
3 months
Netherlands

UX/UI Designer

Limebit and Opendiscourse

  • Redesigned the user experience by enhancing clarity, consistency, readability, visual hierarchy, navigation, and copy to improve usability and user satisfaction.

  • Established a cohesive visual connection across two distinct platforms with a unified UI design strategy and visual storytelling, creating a familiar brand environment.

  • Refined the existing brand design to ensure consistency and improve accessibility.

  • Created high-fidelity prototypes and a responsive, fluid, and scalable design framework in Figma, tailored for future growth.

  • Developed a structured and intuitive information architecture to enhance usability and optimize user flow.

Feb 2020 - Mar 2021
1 year 2 months

UX/UI Designer

Icon Group

  • Created and directed two sales pitches for IKEA, showcasing a 24-page data strategy and its integration into the Smart Home Ecosystem developed by Icon Group.

  • Leveraged impactful visuals and compelling storytelling techniques to engage and captivate the audience throughout the presentations.

Feb 2019 - Apr 2019
3 months

UX/UI Designer

Mindforce Game Lab

  • Developed sales pitches for health-focused games, Fig. (medicine adherence) and Donut Acapolipse (combating obesity), successfully securing a €1,000,000 investment.

  • Applied UX/UI principles and visual storytelling techniques, leveraging data-driven insights to craft persuasive presentations that communicated the value of AI-powered gaming solutions designed to improve health outcomes.

Mar 2018 - Nov 2018
9 months

UX/UI Designer

Volders

  • Crafted conversion-focused landing pages and newsletters to streamline user onboarding.

  • Expanded brand reach through a strategic collaboration with Urban Sports Club.

  • Conducted A/B testing in collaboration with the Performance Marketing team to optimize messaging and visuals for social media materials, enhancing campaign effectiveness.

  • Improved performance metrics by making contract management intuitive and accessible.

May 2013 - Present
12 years 10 months
Berlin, Germany

Product Manager, Product Designer, Service Designer, Co-Founder

Aha-Factory Berlin

  • Founded and managed a 250 m² coworking space for up to 24 tenants.

  • Oversaw finances, communications, contracts, and tenant acquisition.

  • Led marketing, branding, and product development to ensure long-term growth and tenant satisfaction.

  • Developed a thriving creative community through strategic management and innovative solutions.

Jan 2013 - Sep 2024
11 years 9 months

Digital Art Director, Brand Designer

ATLAS.ti

  • Created user-focused interfaces, components, and elements across diverse digital platforms (macOS, iOS, Windows, Android, and web), including landing pages, splash screens, start screens, and software interfaces, ensuring seamless usability.

  • Designed visually compelling assets and logos for major software releases (Versions 7, 8, 9, and 23) to boost user engagement and establish a consistent, memorable brand identity.

  • Developed high-quality marketing materials for print and digital, along with manuals and supporting materials, to complement software releases and enhance user understanding.

  • Collaborated with the intellectual founder of ATLAS.ti to design and publish Humanistic Aspects of Text and Image Interpretation, a five-lecture series as book and an eBook.

May 2012 - Sep 2017
5 years 5 months

Layout and Art Director

Daimler Real Estate

  • Led the design of six annual reports, collaborating with stakeholders to manage the editorial process and ensure alignment with corporate strategy and high-quality standards.

  • Designed charts, tables, and infographics to simplify and present complex real estate data, ensuring clarity and accessibility for diverse stakeholders, from executives to external investors.

  • Directed photography and developed a distinct visual branding concept for the 2017 report, creating a unique identity that aligned with the corporate framework while standing out from previous editions.

Oct 2011 - Mar 2015
3 years 6 months

Brand Designer

BCG

  • Collaborated with the Global Marketing Manager to spearhead a global rebrand of the world’s second-largest consulting firm, modernizing the brand’s appearance and marketing assets.

  • Directed the design of key communication materials, including reports, white papers, websites, newsletters, and logos, ensuring consistency and impact across channels.

  • Created and designed materials for high-profile events such as BCG@TED, the firm’s 50th-anniversary logo, and the Magnum Photo Exhibition invitation hosted by BCG in Paris.

Mar 2010 - Present
16 years
Berlin, Germany

Digital Product (UX/UI) Designer

AQ Digital Products and UX/UI Design

  • Collaborated with global clients, startups, and agencies to deliver user-centric digital platforms, impactful brand strategies and engaging presentations through storytelling.

  • Led UX/UI design for SaaS, e-commerce, science, data science, analytics, machine learning, and health tech.

  • Designed accessible, functional, and visually engaging solutions for macOS, iOS, Windows, Android, and web, refined through user testing and iteration, connecting user needs with strategic objectives.

Sep 2008 - Feb 2010
1 year 6 months

Corporate Brand Designer

Nulleins™ - Brand Creation

  • Developed brand identities and communication strategies for corporate clients like DZ Bank, Volkswagen, and Bundesliga Foundation.

  • Conducted research, visual audits, and workshops to create tailored visual directions and marketing materials.

  • Gained recognition for creativity, reliability, and delivering client-focused design solutions.

Industries Experience

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Experienced in Information Technology (16 years), Retail (16 years), Healthcare (16 years), Real Estate (14 years), Professional Services (3.5 years), and Education (2 years).

Information Technology
Retail
Healthcare
Real Estate
Professional Services
Education

Business Areas Experience

The graph below provides a cumulative view of the freelancer's experience across multiple business areas, calculated from completed and active engagements. It highlights the areas where the freelancer has most frequently contributed to planning, execution, and delivery of business outcomes.

Experienced in Research and Development (17.5 years), Marketing (17.5 years), Product Development (16 years), Finance (13 years), Project Management (6 years), and Information Technology (1.5 years).

Research and Development
Marketing
Product Development
Finance
Project Management
Information Technology

Summary

Hi, I’m a UX/UI designer, combining creativity, strategic thinking, and curiosity to design user-centered experiences that engage and inspire.

With expertise in digital art direction, branding, and collaboration, I create impactful solutions driven by empathy and innovation.

Skills

  • Creative Techniques

  • User-centered Design Processes

  • Team Management

  • Co-creation

  • User Research & Insights

  • Analysis & Synthesis

  • Design Thinking & Strategy

  • Ideation & Problem Framing

  • Information Architecture

  • Accessibility

  • Prototyping & Interaction Design

  • Visual Design

  • Design Systems & Methodologies

  • Testing & Validation

  • Strategy & Business Alignment

  • Pitches

  • Figma

  • Figjam

  • Sketch

  • Whimsical

  • Adobe Cc (Ae, Ps, Lr, Id, Ai)

  • Webflow (Html5.2, Css, Bem, Js)

  • Relume

  • Asana

  • Pen & Paper

  • Open Ai (Chat Gpt, Dall·e 3)

  • Letzai

  • Adobe Firefly

  • Empathetic

  • User-centered

  • Collaborative

  • Responsible

  • Communicative

  • Problem-solver

  • Receptive

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
Dutch
Advanced

Education

Sep 1999 - Jun 2005

AKI/ArtEZ Academy of Art and Design

Bachelor of Design, Visual Communication · Visual Communication · Netherlands

Aug 1994 - Jun 1998

Entry Qualification for the University of Applied Sciences · Civil Engineering

Aug 1994 - Aug 1997

Education and Training as Carpenter for Exclusive Interior Fittings · Wood Engineering

Certifications & licenses

Ironhack Certificate

Ironhack

Ixdf Certificate Redesign Of A Planning Platform For Theater Lessons

Ixdf

Webflow Certificates

Webflow

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Frequently asked questions

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Where is Christian based?

Christian is based in Berlin, Germany and prefers 100% remote projects.

What languages does Christian speak?

Christian speaks the following languages: German (Native), English (Advanced), Dutch (Advanced).

How many years of experience does Christian have?

Christian has at least 17 years of experience. During this time, Christian has worked in at least 11 different roles and for 15 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 1 year. Note that Christian may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

What roles would Christian be best suited for?

Based on recent experience, Christian would be well-suited for roles such as: UX/UI Designer, Strategic UX/UI Designer, Webflow Designer.

What is Christian's latest experience?

Christian's most recent position is UX/UI Designer at DramaOnline.

What companies has Christian worked for in recent years?

In recent years, Christian has worked for DramaOnline, Streamalyzr, ATLAS.ti, Anto & Mama, and Diametos.

Which industries is Christian most experienced in?

Christian is most experienced in industries like Information Technology (IT), Retail, and Healthcare. Christian also has some experience in Real Estate, Professional Services, and Education.

Which business areas is Christian most experienced in?

Christian is most experienced in business areas like Research and Development (R&D), Marketing, and Product Development. Christian also has some experience in Finance, Project Management, and Information Technology (IT).

Which industries has Christian worked in recently?

Christian has recently worked in industries like Information Technology (IT), Retail, and Healthcare.

Which business areas has Christian worked in recently?

Christian has recently worked in business areas like Product Development, Research and Development (R&D), and Marketing.

What is Christian's education?

Christian holds a Bachelor in Visual Communication from AKI/ArtEZ Academy of Art and Design.

Does Christian have any certificates?

Christian has 3 certificates. These include: Ironhack Certificate, Ixdf Certificate Redesign Of A Planning Platform For Theater Lessons, and Webflow Certificates.

What is the availability of Christian?

Christian is immediately available full-time for suitable projects.

What is the rate of Christian?

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