Jan Wächter

Jan Wächter

Designer in Zürich, Switzerland, He/They

About

I turn ideas into stories, simplify information through data visualization, and design enjoyable and user-friendly experiences.

Projects

Ongoing
Data Applications at N/A

Design for several data-driven products and applications, supporting the work of internal data analytics & business intelligence teams at a high-profile, multinational technology company.

2020

Design for data-driven interfaces and visualizations powering an isokinetic workout system.

2019

Design of a personal health companion app which informs, motivates and empowers people on their journey to better health.

2019

The Swisscom Roaming Cockpit gives their users detailed insights and full control over their costs when they use mobile data and make calls. I've designed the responsive frontend that's easy to use and accessible across all mobile devices.

Awards

2019

Our project «OECD Going Digital Toolkit» won 1st place at the german dpa-infografik award 2019 in the category «Infografiken von Unternehmen, Organisationen, Institutionen».

2019

The Information is Beautiful Awards celebrates excellence and beauty in data visualization, infographics, interactive &  information art.

Our project «Biovotion Augment» was nominated in the category «Leisure, Games & Sport».

2014

The Grimme Online Award is a non-endowed award for pieces of high journalistic quality in the digital medium. It gets awarded yearly, since 2001, by the Grimme Institute, which also confers the prestigious TV award Grimme Prize.

2014

The «Data Journalism Awards» is a series of prizes in different categories for outstanding projects in Data Journalism. The event is supported by Google and the Knight Foundation.

Work Experience

2012 — Now

Volunteering

2020 — Now
Zürich, Switzerland

Since 2020 I'm honored to be part of the national design jury for the Swiss Annual Reports Rating organization — to assess the annual reports and assign them an overall rating.

Contact

Website