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michaelthinius.de [email protected] 0049 176 3258 3206
Michael ThiniusProduct-/ UX Designer & Information Architect
ME
Basketball, listening to music, playing with music, Italy, technology that makes my life easier
SOME CLIENTS I HAVE WORKED FOR
THINGS I LIKE
My Name is Michael Thinius. I am a freelance Product-/UX Designer & Information Architect with more than 10 years of experience in helping people and brands interact better on the highways of our digitalized world. I live in Berlin.
I structure, organize and label information in order to make it easy for people to find it, understand it, and manage it. In other words I improve service, communication and effectiveness on the web and for digital services. My focus is to reduce the complexity of processes by generating intuitive and fun-to-use websites, web-apps and applications.
Team player, dedicated, emphatic, motivated, sometimes magic
UX strategy, User research, Design sprints, User centered design approach
Customer journey mapping, Experience mapping, IA, User flows, Wireframing, Proto-typing, User testing
Workshops, Presentations, Client communication
WORK- & SOFT SKILLS
URL: michaelthinius.de E-Mail: [email protected] Phone: 0049 176 3258 3206
10+ YEARS OF EXPERIENCE
Product-/UX Designer & Information Architect, January ’13 - Current Job Description: Finding problems, defining solutions, analyzing research, mapping experiences, developing user flows, process flows, describing & showing interactions, wireframing, prototyping, user testing, workshops
FREELANCE @ a. lange & söhne, idean, idealo, juke, jvm, aperto, bbdo, telekom t-labs, saatchi & saatchi pro, ddb, udg, s&f digital, fuenfwerken, gosub, dietaikonauten
WORK EXPERIENCE
Junior Information Architect, July ‘11 - December ‘12 Job Description: wireframing for UXD / UCD, developing user flows, process flows, describing & showing interactions, specifying concepts, joy for the user, apps & web portals, web special, presentations
razorfish - BERLIN
Junior Information Architect - January ‘11 - May ‘11 Job Description: concept work, wireframing, specifying, hybrid-tv, out of home, social concepting
2011 - MAY 2011
exozet - BERLIN
Concept, Account - May ‘09 - July ‘10 Job Description: account management, concept work, wireframing, creative concept
INTERNSHIPS @ pixelpark, moccu, s&f interactive - BERLIN
2009 - 2010
2013 - present
2011 - 2012
URL: michaelthinius.de E-Mail: [email protected] Phone: 0049 176 3258 3206
UX Strategy Wireframing Prototyping
Presentation
My assignment was to design a website for a new product launch. The features of the new product - a high-quality chair for gamers - should be made visible and tangible for the user on the site.
A special feature of the site is the configurator, which allows the user to customize the color and shoulder patches of the chair. The site also has a shop connection and of course, the site should be available on all common devices. Time was scarce and so I developed initial ideas for the product staging in an agile and powerful team and promptly "poured" them into wireframes. I quickly developed a clickable prototype, which was further developed iteratively. I presented the Prototype and a light documentation directly to a happy client.
I presented the prototype and a light documentation directly to a happy client.
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TASKS
Client: Grey Düsseldorf Project: Website- / product launch for gaming chair Role: Product- / UX Designer Period: 2019
INTERSTUHL WEBSITE LAUNCH FOR NEW PRODUCT
SELECTED PROJECTS
UX Strategy Wireframing Prototyping Workshops
Together with a fellow UX Designer, we had to merge dispatcher tools in order to deliver an intuitive, customizable and frictionless way to enable dispatchers get their job done more effortlessly.
UX Research insights and workshops helped us to single out the core features for the new dispatcher application.
With the proof of concept, we laid the foundation for a further development of the product.
TASKS
Client: Daimler Fleetboard GmbH Project: Dispatch-/logistics Software & Services Integration Role: Product- / UX Designer Period: 2018
FLEETBOARD DISPATCH MGMT IoT APPLICATION
SELECTED PROJECTS
We relaunched the idealo Business Portal for Shop-owners. We implemented a dashboard layout to make the online-shop management- features easier accessible and business data more visual.
The new developed widget library gives the system more flexibility and easier scalability.
We enabled the shop owners to manage their businesses on idealo more efficiently, less time consuming and therefor more successful.
Client: idealo Internet GmbH Project: B2B Online Shop-Manager Relaunch Role: UX Designer Period: 2017 / 2018
IDEALO B2B SHOP MANAGER RELAUNCH
SELECTED PROJECTS
UX Strategy Interaction Design
Wireframing Prototyping
Design supervision
TASKS
SELECTED PROJECTS
Telekom Innovation Laboratories asked me to rethink and refine their existing System- Security-Manager. A web-app for small- and medium sized enterprises, that monitors the existing system, detects vulnerabilities and provides solutions for a more secure enterprise IT.
Together with a fellow designer we managed to rebuild and optimize the web-app by analyzing the given structure, finding problems, defining solutions and focussing on main user tasks.
Now, there is an optimized system- evaluation process, a dashboard to all functionalities and comprehensible user- system-interactions.
DT. TELEKOM DATA-SECURITY-MANAGER WEB APP
Client: Deutsche Telekom AG Project: Data-Security-Manager Web App Role: UX Designer Period: 2015 / 2016
UX Strategy Interaction Design
Sticky’s, Pen & Paper Wireframing Prototyping
TASKS
UX Strategy Content Strategy
Interaction Design Workshops
Sticky’s, Pen & Paper Wireframing Prototyping
Viessmann, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of efficient, reliable and affordable heating and solar products, needed a revamp of their corporate website. To let people easily find and discover products that fits their needs best, we developed an easy to use product finder. We analyzed the then current state of the website, as well as the competitor’s websites developed user journeys and detected pain points. We frequently presented our work and findings in workshops. We interviewed representatives of each department and talked about their needs and how they would like their department to be represented on the website. At the end of each of the interviews we translated our findings, by live wireframing an initial structure of the respective section on the website.
By establishing a modular and scalable content system, we made it easy for the employees to curate their content and made it extendable for future products and projects
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TASKS
Client: dieTaikonauten Project: Responsive Website Relaunch Role: Information Architect, UX Designer Period: 2014
VIESSMANN FULL RESPONSIVE WEBSITE RELAUNCH
SELECTED PROJECTS
The leading solar technology manufacturer asked us to revamp their corporate website. It should represent the company’s products, applications and services aligned with the new brand- and product strategy, in a user centered and engaging way. We had to refresh the website's information architecture and interaction design. By rethinking the user journeys, thru the wide range of photo-voltaic installations and related services, we redefined the overall user experience on the website.
A key feature is a new tool. The solar-calculator. It computes required installation costs and accumulates the amortization of the photovoltaic construction. In the result, it displays the information in a vivid, informative and easy to catch way.
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UX Strategy Content Strategy
Interaction Design Workshops
Sticky’s, Pen & Paper Wireframing Prototyping
TASKS
Client: dieTaikonauten Project: Responsive Website Relaunch Role: Information Architect, UX Designer Period: 2014
SELECTED PROJECTS
SMA RESPONSIVE WEBSITE RELAUNCH
We created an interactive iPad App for the South African artist Robin Rhode. The task was to transfer one of his last exhibitions „paries pictus“ to the iPad, so that it becomes available to everybody who owns an iPad. Rhode first spattered the walls of the Lehmann Maupin Gallery, NYC, with various stencils and illustrations and then invited 37 first-graders from the South Bronx to fill in the blanks with a selection of giant crayons.
We have created an App which allows the user to do exactly that, to paint in pictures with crayons. The app is for people of any age.
UX Strategy Interaction Design
Sticky’s, Pen & Paper Wireframing Prototyping
Client: dieTaikonauten Project: iPad App — Kunst Adaption Role: Information Architect, UX Designer Period: 2013
ROBIN RHODE INTERACTIVE iPAD APP
SELECTED PROJECTS
TASKS
SELECTED PROJECTS
To improve the online presence of one of the largest telecommunication companies in Germany, we decided that navigating their vast product and service catalogue should become easier, faster and more pleasant. Aiming at providing better user guidance, we selected four different navigation-mechanics and quickly found the best solution. We created a new fly-out-menu which now displays products and different areas of the portal in a more vivid and emotional way thanks to larger product images and a new content arrangement. By clicking on the icons at the bottom of the panel one can directly jump to special manufacture pages within the portal. We also reworked the section-landing pages with the focus on user friendliness and usability.
By changing the layout and reorganizing the content, we were able to make it easier for the user to find products, information and support.
UX Strategy Content Strategy
Sticky’s, Pen & Paper Wireframing
Client: Razorfish Berlin Project: User Experience —/ Conversion Improvements Role: Information Architect, UX Designer Period: 2012
Telefónica o2- PORTAL CONV. OPT.
TASKS
SELECTED PROJECTS
Allianz Insurance wanted to develop a new method for marketing their products. So we came up with the idea of an digital insurance assistant. The iPad App will be able to calculate and suggest plans and services based on the needs and personal situation in life. Therefore, it contains several complex calculators that select a final product perfectly tailored upon the user's need and visually presented in extremely clear and comprehensible manner.
People will understand better which insurance and options they need and which one they don’t need; as a result, they feel they have received trustworthy advice. At the same time, the insurance assistant will have an easier time selling products.
Sticky’s, Pen & Paper Wireframing
Bug Reporting
ALLIANZ CONSULTANCY iPAD APP
Agency: Razorfish Berlin Project: iPad App for Finance Consulting Role: Information Architect, UX Designer Period: 2011
TASKS
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