Adrian Abele

Adrian Abele

Lead UX Designer in Munich, He/him

About

A multi-disciplinary design lead with 10+ years of experience building software from 0-1.

Contact

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Work Experience

2022 — Now
Munich

Kaiser X is the strategic experience design company of Allianz.

Currently I'm leading design in a cross-functional R&D team of designers, software engineers and machine learning experts. We identify, prototype, and validate new product and business opportunities for Allianz.

2020 — 2022
Munich

Co-led research & design at IDS (Allianz) with a team of 7 designers over multiple cross-functional product teams. Redesigned and extended the IDS investment management and reporting platform and established strong ux practices at IDS while reporting directly to the CTO and Head of Business & Design.

2020 — 2020
Munich

Designed for clients such as Zeiss, Matmatch/BCG, IXDS (part of PWC) and UnternehmerTUM in 2020 and from 2015-2016.

2019 — 2019
Munich

Conducted qualitative research and designed new features for web and mobile as the first in-house designer at Capmo, a seed stage startup in the construction space.

2016 — 2019
Munich

Co-founded Digital Product School (a program of UnternehmerTUM, europe's leading center for innovation and entrepreneurship), where I built and led the interaction design program over 2 years.

2013 — 2014
Munich

Designed in-car navigation systems for BMW with a focus on usability improvements, as well as a product vision for the BMW Connected Drive web platform.

2011 — 2012
Princeton (NJ), USA

Internship at Siemens Medical Research in Princeton, New Jersey.

Volunteering

Education

2014 — 2018
Munich

Studies in Human Computer Interaction, Mixed Method Research, Business Design & Entrepreneurship.

2009 — 2013
Schwäbisch Gmünd

Studies in Interaction Design. Focus und application design and data visualization.

2012 — 2012
Sydney

Studies in Industrial Design, Creative Technology & Design Thinking

Certifications