Berlin, Germany

Hey, my name is Mareka. I’m a Product Designer with over seventeen years experience in User Interface Design and User Experience Design. I have worked on over fifteen products and services directly or as a consultant and on a countless amount of web and marketing projects. My experience as a freelancer has given me deep insight into various companies, their workflows and the tools they use. I am able to bring a long term project to final design and also specialize in 1-2 month client oriented productions. I have led projects solo and with teams, bringing features to full cohesion and release.

I am a guru with agile product development on diverse technologies, design systems, design software, wireframing and prototyping tools. (See list on my CV)

COMPANIES HIRE ME BECAUSE

I have led big and small teams from inception to launch

I am a Designer from the bottom of my heart

I want to create the best products that people love and companies profit from

I am always keeping the big picture in view

My designs are innovative, pragmatic and solution oriented

SOFTWARE PROFICIENCY

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RECENT PROJECTS


Wholesale e-commerce

as Lead UI/UX-Designer (Contractor)
09/2021 – 09/2022
remote Zürich, Switzerland & Berlin, Germany

designed the UI and UX for online shop with special technical requirements from scratch for first launch

ideation, ux-flows, wireframing, prototyping, testing, road map planning, UI designing

collaboration with dev

build up design team to execute further road map

designed design system

www.coffeeb.com


E-learning platform

as Senior UI/UX-Designer (Contractor)
07/2021 – 08/2021
remote Berlin, Germany

round 2: designed User Interface for Germanys No1 school book publisher

flows, prototypes and UI design for home learning platform

Mobile Gaming

as Senior UI/UX-Designer (Contractor)
08/2020 – 01/2021
remote San Mateo, CA

created UX wireframes and flows for tower defense game experience

designed User Interfaces for in-game features in sketch

implemented final layouts in unity

tested implementation in early user tests

evaluated user tests

iterated UX flows and UI implementation based on user needs


E-learning platform

as Senior UI/UX-Designer (Contractor)
06/2020 – 08/2020
remote Berlin, Germany

round 1: designed UIs for German home schooling platform during pandemic


Mobile Gaming

as Senior UI/UX-Designer (Contractor)
04/2018 – 12/2019
Düsseldorf & Hamburg, Germany

created the experience of new features of God Kings Strategy MMO mobile game

worked across every stage of product development

prototyped and found creative solutions

crafted and finished every detail in the product

led cross-functional team from idea to launch


Online Banking mobile & web

as Senior UI/UX-Designer (Contractor)
06/2017 – 02/2018
Frankfurt am Main, Germany

unified mobile & online banking to one technology

initiated & planned design system based on polymer

designed use case reactive user interface

improved client onboarding experience

worked in cross-functional agile teams worldwide

improved design team structure


Advertising & Marketing  

as Senior UX-Consultant (Contractor)
05/2017 – 06/2017
Berlin, Germany

information architecture for use cases & edge cases for Montblanc – Time Walker Campaign

developed wireframes & user journey

worked in cross-functional teams in Germany and India


MATE , now Sweap
Event Management SaaS

as Senior UX-Consultant (Contractor)
03/2018 – 04/2018
Berlin, Germany

redesign for current Interface for event invitation & accreditation tool

Interviews with users

Workshop with client to formulate future strategy

analysed UI and identified issues in user journey

improved user journey, information architecture and interaction design

road map planning for improved UX


Advertising & Marketing

as Senior UX-Consultant (Contractor) 
06/2016 – 06/2017
Frankfurt & Berlin, Germany

digital product design consultancy for Diakonie Deutschland

digital product design consultancy for Hans-Böckler Foundation

digital product design consultancy for Fraport Group


Votesapp- Digital Democracy
Blockchain based Voting App 

as Lead UX-Designer 
11/2015 – 04/2016
Berlin, Germany


HHI Research Institute
Website Relaunch

as UX-Designer
06/2015 – 10/2015
Berlin, Germany