Mike

Mike

UX Designer in Berlin, he/him

About

UX Designer, Climber & Co-Founder of bettertalk.to, passionately crazy for knowledge. kletterkalk.de ambassador. You can rent my tropicalbrain.com 🏝

Work Experience

2013 — Now
Berlin

As a Senior UX Designer I was working with big companies, digital agencies and startups alike, developing apps, websites and increasingly services that inspire customers and help them make informed decisions.

2013 — 2013
Research & Product Manager at Frontira (ex-LHBS)
Berlin

LHBS is a knowledge and transformation company that helps clients to innovate their business model, brand strategy and product & service concepts. As a Product Manager I was developing the research and insight product signmesh.com/. Starting with only one client I managed to convince 4 more clients to buy the product – making the product totally self-sustaining and making room for even faster growth.

2009 — 2012
Berlin

Razorfish creates highly interactive and strategic digital experiences. As a Concept Developer, I’ve created work for multinational clients such as McDonald’s, Audi, O2 and DHL. My multidisciplinary background made it so I could elevate interactive concepts across teams, and explain highly technical concepts to clients like McDonald‘s. Winning the O2 Germany account, help doubling the budget from McDonald’s and establishing social media communication on 5 different channels which engendered a permanent change of the way McDonald’s communicates with customers in Germany.

Projects

Ongoing

The search engine for all freelancers of the creative industry. Since our start in 2015 we brokered more than 25 million Euros in daily rates and continue to connect 3.500+ freelancers with more than 400 industry leading companies.

Ongoing

Pure, eco-friendly climbing chalk that suits indoor and outdoor climbers alike. With 15+ gyms onboard and a strong footing in the British market we were setting a standard the competition soon caught up on in terms of sustainable sourcing and environmentally friendly packaging.

Side Projects

2020
Climb Local

When the pandemic hit, bouldering gyms stayed closed and thousands of climbers were seeking other ways of scratching their itch. Climblocal.org was meant to provide a platform for home wall owners to share their training facilities with neighbours and climbers around. After the first signups the virus proved to be too spooky for people to invite others into their home and growth stagnated.

2019
Hostel Music Box

Staying in hostels all over Europe and beyond, I remember some nights more than others: the ones where someone picked up an instrument and started playing. To enable more places to provide this kind of experience, I started Hostel Music Box, a packaged assortment of instruments that a hostel could provide to invite guests to jam, hang out and enjoy the long evenings and short nights with their fellow travelers. Then came the pandemic …

2013

Via a pressure sensor in an E-Cigarette, we measured when, how often and how deep you are taking a puff. The data is transferred and stored online—always there for you to see, analyse and share. Your health care professional can monitor your achievements and set new goals together with you. I did the ideation, concepting plus the Arduino & Processing code while Markus punched out an iPhone app in a day. The only thing left was a talk in front of 500+ people at the TechCrunch Disrupt Europe Hackathon in Berlin.

2012

Tropical Brain is an online brain rental service and an extension of lunch meetings I did in the past. Back when Gidsy was the hot new experience marketplace, in exchange for a lunch item I helped spark new ideas, giving insights or new perspectives for strangers—and turned some of them into new friends.

2012

Advertising offices in most cases aren't locally rooted. To invite people into those beautiful office spaces with magnificent views and lots of nice people we build a Twitter bot that would respond automatically to tweets nearby, inviting digital workers for a "Razorbeer." The result: a new design freelancer, a rich presentation of a wandering illustrator and a six-pack of german beer delivered to New Yorks Razorfish office.

2011

Falko and I developed a game of Concentration (or Memory, as we call it in Germany) that could be played with Instagram hashtags that you enter. The game was played more than 25.000 times – mostly because I managed to get it on the McDonald's and the Audi Facebook pages.
Originally it was designed to help filter bad images for hashtags which just started to get spammed around that time in 2011.

Contact

Twitter
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