Curious designer.
High-agency maker.

I joined Planet in late 2022 as a product designer and design manager. I’m now Director of Design, working from Austria with an international team on tools for exploring and understanding Earth-observation data.

Our work brings Planet and Sentinel Hub applications together in Planet Insights Platform: shared navigation, clearer access to imagery, and simpler analysis workflows. More recently, I shared a look at our Visual Analysis interface and Planet SuperRes over downtown Linz.

Back in Austria, I ran my own design studio from Vienna and Linz, helping clients turn early ideas into digital products. Projects included Twice and Alles Clara.

At Alles Clara, I worked as UX Lead and Co-Product Owner from 2020 to 2022. I helped shape the vision, roadmap, and experience of a platform connecting caregiving relatives with professional advisers. My self-employment ended in 2024.

I spent four years at Google, based in Munich and working with colleagues in Silicon Valley and Tel Aviv. As UX Lead for OneGoogle, I helped bring shared interface components and familiar account experiences to products across Google.

Accessibility was another thread throughout my work: research, workshops, launch reviews, and advice for product teams. I also contributed to accessible hardware and software interactions for the self-driving car project that became Waymo.

I developed the early CIID concept into an open initiative for independent mobility. Together, we explored a low-cost navigation system that would help blind and visually impaired people find their way through unfamiliar urban environments.

The work combined hands-on prototypes with user testing. It received the Prix Ars Electronica Next Idea award in 2014 and an IxDA Interaction Award in the Empowering category in 2015. Beyond this chapter, I stayed involved with BlindMaps through 2017.

I co-founded Flying, an app startup for people who love air travel, working between Vienna and Hamburg. My work brought together the product concept, roadmap, and UX/UI design.

The app combined practical flight information with the social side of travel: keeping track of journeys, sharing experiences, and bringing a little of the old jet-set spirit back to flying.

I moved to Copenhagen for master-level interaction design studies at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design. It changed the way I thought about design, technology, and the people using what we make.

Projects included the early BlindMaps concept and CPHsignals, which connected two neighborhoods across the harbor using signal lamps, Morse code, and Twitter messages.

In Berlin, I co-founded KiezExplorer Neukölln: a pocket-sized guide to one neighborhood, rather than a whole city. I worked on the product concept, management, and UX/UI design.

We brought together local stories, guided multimedia tours, maps, photography, and a documentary to help people explore Neukölln beyond the usual tourist routes.

I joined an up-and-coming web agency in Vienna and spent more than eight years working on digital projects for clients including BMW, MINI, and Siemens.

My work spanned web design and project management, from websites to interactive campaigns and branded YouTube experiences. It was where my interest in design and technology became everyday practice.

At 18, I moved to Vienna to study Multimedia Arts. It was there that I fell in love with design at the intersection of technology.

Born in Upper Austria and raised in the countryside, with part of my childhood spent in (West) Berlin.