Michael Berninger

Senior Product Designer

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Munich, Germany

Experience

Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
1 year

Senior Product Designer

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 Web Design
  • WCAG
  • Corporate Branding
  • Product Discovery
  • MVP
  • Product Design
  • User Experience
  • Rapid Prototyping
Apr 2023 - Present
2 years 9 months

Senior UX/UI Designer

Siemens Healthineers AG

  • Designing a new application that empowers physicians to make faster and better decisions with AI
  • Collaborating closely with the product and engineering team to prototype and implement intuitive workflows
  • Ensuring seamless integration of AI insights into clinical decision-making
  • Focusing on usability and efficiency to enhance diagnostic accuracy while reducing cognitive load for medical professionals
  • Visual Design
  • User Experience Design
  • User Interface Prototyping
  • User Interface Design
  • Product Discovery
  • Mobile Design
Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
1 year

Senior Product Designer

Delicious Data GmbH

  • Enhanced the existing design system by introducing design tokens, ensuring consistency and scalability across the platform
  • Developed a dynamic table design system that integrated real data on click, improving prototyping and data visualization
  • Led product discovery for new features, conducting user testing to gather insights that directly informed strategic decisions for the founders
  • Collaborated on enhancing dashboard functionality, optimizing user experience, and increasing product flexibility to better serve evolving user needs
  • Product Design
  • Product Discovery
  • Design System
  • Design Tokens
  • User Testing
  • Table Design
  • Mobile Design
  • App
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
1 year 1 month

Senior Product Designer

Compleet GmbH

  • Built a time-tracking app for blue-collar workers, delivering the first MVP for Android and iOS in three months
  • Conducted user interviews and UX research to gather user needs, benchmarking industry best practices to refine product requirements
  • App
  • UX Strategy
  • UX Research
  • Mobile Design
  • User Journey
  • Sitemap
  • Design System
  • User Testing
  • Wireframing
  • Mobile Interface Design
  • Prototyping
May 2021 - May 2023
2 years 1 month

Senior Product Designer

Tacto Technology GmbH

  • First designer at Tacto, exploring product opportunities with the founders to achieve product market fit
  • Evaluated possible UX strategies, outlined user journeys, and mapped user flows to shape the foundation of the product experience
  • Led the product design process from discovery to implementation
  • Product Design
  • Product Discovery
  • Product Strategy
  • UI
  • UX
  • SaaS
  • AI
  • User Journey
  • MVP
  • Wireframing
  • Prototyping
  • Design Tokens
  • Design System
  • Webflow
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
2 years

Senior Product Designer

ListNRide GmbH

  • Improved the platform by ensuring a consistent UI and UX across all devices
  • Established a scalable design system from scratch, integrating the new branding
  • Optimized the checkout process, leading to a 21% increase in conversion rate
  • Developed a modular building block system for landing pages, enhancing flexibility and efficiency in content creation
  • Mobile Webdesign
  • Platform
  • Online Marketplace
  • Landing Pages
  • Design System
  • Responsive Webdesign
  • Landing Page Optimization
  • E-Commerce
Mar 2020 - Oct 2021
1 year 8 months

Senior Product Designer

Delicious Data GmbH

  • Joined as the first designer, collaborating closely with the founders to define the UX strategy and drive product discovery
  • Led the end-to-end design process from 0 to 1, shaping the product into a scalable AI operating system
  • Established a comprehensive design system from scratch, ensuring consistency and seamless handover to the engineering team
  • Product Design
  • Product Discovery
  • UX Strategy
  • User Interaction
  • UX Research
  • UI
  • UX
  • SaaS
  • AI
  • Data Visualization
  • Design System
  • Webflow
May 2019 - Aug 2021
2 years 4 months

Senior UX / UI Designer

Scoperty GmbH

  • Member of the founding team aiming to disrupt the European property market
  • Built a property platform from scratch and ensured a consistent user experience for all devices
  • Platform
  • Online Marketplace
  • Responsive Webdesign
  • Branding
  • UI
  • UX
  • Design System
  • User Research
  • Usability Tests
  • Lean Start-Up
Sep 2016 - Apr 2019
2 years 8 months

UX Designer

Future Lab of Interhyp AG (ING Group)

  • Worked in an interdisciplinary innovation lab developing new digital business models
  • Provided low-fidelity prototypes and conducted user tests to voice the user perspective
  • Business Models
  • Usability Tests
  • MVP
  • Rapid Prototyping
  • Lean Start-Up
  • Design Thinking
  • Design Sprint

Summary

I am a Product Design & Design Systems Expert.

Helping startups and companies transform ideas into scalable products.

I am building digital products and services from scratch. Over 9 years of experience in creating software and web experiences. Crafting functional and useful user interfaces. Designing holistically with careful thought.

Skills

  • Figma / Sketch / Protopie
  • V0, Bold, Lovable, Replit, Cursorai
  • Figjam / Miro
  • Maze / Dovetail
  • Adobe Creative Cloud
  • Zepplin / Abstract
  • Slack / Teams
  • Jira / Notion / Clickup / Linear / Assana / Trello
  • G Suite / Ms Office
  • Website Builder And Wordpress / Webflow / Framer / Elegant Themes / Squarespace

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced

Education

Mar 2013 - Aug 2016

Fresenius University of Applied Sciences

Bachelor's Degree in Media & Communication Management · Media & Communication Management · 1.6

Oct 2008 - Oct 2012

Munich University of Applied Sciences

Bachelor's Degree in Design · Design · Munich, Germany · 1.7

Sep 2005 - Jul 2008

Technical Secondary School, Freising

Technology · Freising, Germany

Certifications & licenses

IxDF: Accessibility: How to Design For All, UX Design For Augmented Reality And Data-Driven Design: Quantitative Research For UX

IxDF

IxDF: Get Your Product Used: Adoption And Appropriation

IxDF

Figma Academy Certification

UXQB® Certified Professional For Usability And User Experience

XDi Certified UX & Usability Expert

LinkedIn Learning: Auditing Design Systems For Accessibility

LinkedIn Learning

United Nations System Staff College: Digital4Sustainability

United Nations System Staff College

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