About Oliver
Budget for innovative design seems tight, but the need for competitive innovation is urgent? Want to ensure product success and hot lead generation?
As a freelance designer, my lean services in product strategy, UX & UI design, and UX research focus on generating crucial insights as early and as cost-efficient as possible. This enables companies to minimize risky investments and transform uncertainty into innovations with impact.
REASONS TO HIRE ME:
🚀 Develop business models
💡 Lead ideation workshops
💬 Analyse customer needs
📱 Design prototypes
🔬 Conduct usability testings
📈 Plan product innovation
Reach out to talk with me about your challenges.
German
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
French
Conversational
Remote only
Primarily works remotely
Experience
- Oliver Jahn – Product Design ConsultingSenior Product Design & UX ConsultantDIGITAL AND ITDecember 2011 - Today (14 years and 6 months)Hamburg, GermanyConsulting companies on designing and validating Product Strategies, User Experiences and User Interfaces. Also created a successful design template for pattern libraries that has been downloaded more than 15,000 times until now
- IU International University of Applied SciencesDesign Lecturer & MentorEDUCATION AND E-LEARNINGMarch 2023 - Today (3 years and 3 months)Hamburg, GermanyPast courses on:MOBILE MEDIA DESIGN:Target group definition; ideation methods; feasibility assessment; storyboards; fundamentals of product design process; understanding user needs; information architecture and taxonomies; network structures; designing interaction processes; user interface components; fundamentals of responsive web design; theoretical introduction to prototyping and usability testing, mentoring and scoring student projectsDESIGN THEORY:Design history and its objects and styles, influences of philosophy on design and design philosophy, design ethics, semiotics, perceptual psychology, visual rhetorics, aesthetics, process and creativity theory, mentoring and scoring student presentations
- Dataport AöRDigital Transformation ConsultantPUBLIC SECTORJune 2020 - September 2023 (3 years and 3 months)Hamburg, GermanyHypothesising, validating and iterating Business Models, Value Propositions, Prototypes, guiding through user research and UX processes
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Education
- Bachelor of ArtsBTK University of Art and Design2015Interaction Design, grade: 1,6 Thesis: "Here Be Dragons - Systematic Detection and Fulfillment of Unsatisfied User Needs in User Experience Design", Examiners: Peter Sikking, Prof. Dr. Christof Windgätter
- Certified Media Designer for Digital & Print, Media DesignErnst-Litfaß-Schule2010Dual apprenticeship with focus on conceptualization and visualisation, and additionally front-end development with HTML and CSS
Certifications
- Strategyzer Masterclass Business DesignStrategyzer Academy2019
- Masterclass "Become A Sustainable UX Designer"SUX - The Sustainable UX Network2025