Senior Design Systems Architect | UX/UI Expert

11/2018 – 3/2024

- System Development: Spearheaded the development and management of a workflow for self-hosting design assets and visual regression testing, significantly enhancing update frequency and system reliability.
- Education & Leadership: Orchestrated company-wide migration of design libraries to Sketch Cloud, enhancing collaborative design efforts and system usability. Conducted standard compliance reviews, Design Team trainings and company-wide design system support
- Component Design: Built and maintained approximately 50 design system components plus variants in Sketch, conducted live training sessions and provided support to interdisciplinary stakeholders
- Innovation: Led the retrofitting of product-wide Theming within 3 months, from concept to implementation as design lead. Engineered and launched a prototyping toolkit using Tailwind and GDS Web Components that improved design-system component integration in real-time testing environments. Refactored and modernized the company-wide icon system starting 2020, ongoingly maintained and extended it since then.

Skills and Technologies:
- Designed and Deployed Component Libraries: Utilized Sketch, Git, Shell Scripts, and Node.js to build and structure comprehensive component libraries, enhancing design consistency across projects. Developed custom Sketch plugins to streamline design processes and automation.
- Responsive Design and Prototyping: Created flexible, responsive Sketch components leveraging design tokens managed through Style Dictionary. Developed user experience prototypes and refactored components using HTML, Tailwind, SASS, CSS, and Eleventy Static Site Builder to optimize user interactions.
- Workflow Automation and Development: Engineered workflows and automation tools using Git, Node.js, and Shell Scripting to enhance project efficiency and reduce repetitive tasks.
- Design and Development Collaboration: Coordinated with design and development teams and deployed design tokens, global icon sets, and other design assets using tools like Storybook, Jira, Git/Bitbucket, Confluence, and Style Dictionary.

Automation Anywhere, Innovationsmanagement, Prototyping, Schulung / Training (IT)

10/2017 – 4/2018

- Conducted UX audits and wireframing for Aldi Nord, enhancing input efficiency in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) workflows.
- Design component inventory for Miele, ensuring design consistency and component usability.

User Experience (UX), Workflows, Prozessoptimierung

10/2015 – 12/2016

- Conducted analysis, and created wireframes and mockups to assist in integrating new design components into their Azure-based Content Management System, enhancing system usability and interface functionality.
- Developed an online living styleguide as an internal documentation website, supporting the consistent application of the design agency's new styleguide across digital assets.
- Refactored, enhanced and optimized HTML/CSS of frontend layout components

CSS (Cascading Style Sheet), Microsoft Azure, User Experience (UX)