Helping you shape your design team to deliver best in class digital products

Background

Janine comes from a background in user experience design and has evolved into a leadership role. Her roots are in TV. From pitching ideas, to post-production, to designing TV apps. No remote control or TV interaction pattern is unknown to her.

Head of Research & Design

@ZATTOO, Apr 2020 – PRESENT

User Experience is everyone's responsibility. With my team, we align teams on the customer and end-user journeys to get a shared understanding of the value we create. Guiding business priorities through research and breaking down the narrative into stories for an effective product development process.
We enable, facilitate and drive the user experience through our consistently designed interface. My role is to act as a strategic partner and create the right environment for the design discipline to flourish and harvest a great product.

Team Lead Design

@ZATTOO, JAN 2017 – MAR 2020

Scaling the team to eight full-time employers plus one working student. Stopped working as an individual contributor, to dedicate to leading the team. Setting the stage for their passion and improving the shared design and development processes around design systems and Automation. Managing the politics within and across teams.

Senior UX Design

@ZATTOO, MAR 2014 – DEC 2016

The journey started as a second designer of a team of two in a tech-led company living the first few years without designers. Picking up the fragments from the web, iOS, and Android – doing our best to clean up.

Business extended from direct to consumer to B2B and my TV skills come in handy. Started designing 10-foot experience for TV Apps on Android and Set-Top Boxes.

Product Manager

@SOFTGARDEN, SEP 2012 – OCT 2013

First Job after finishing University studying International Media and Computing. Transforming a dusty old applicant tracking tool into a delightful SaaS solution. Or let's say the ugly duckling into the swan. First toutchpoints with Design Thinking and Agile Development

Grafik & Visual Effects

@STORY HOUSE PRODUCTIONS, APR 2010 – SEP 2012

Started of as an intern in Washington D.C. proposing a new way of pitching ideas for new TV shows. Also creating lower thirds, opener for TV content as well as props and short sequences of animatind facts.
Established a close relationship, back in Berlin working for the US and german team as a freelancer.

UX Design

@DIGICAST, DEC 2006 – JUL 2008

Joining a small consulting and development IPTV company as a solo Experience Designer, with no idea about that job title at that time 🤓

International Media and Computing B.S.

@HTW BERLIN, 2007 – 2011

Thesis: 2D + Depth vs. Stereo 3D.
3D-TV Capture, Transmission, and Display Technology

Diploma Communication Design

@BTK University of Art and Design 2003-2006

Diploma Thesis: Hybrid Interactive 3D music board game