The Conceptual UX Designer and Team Lead Erik Scholz

I'm Erik, a UX Lead and Product Manager from Berlin and specialized in growth-driven, multilingual, and evolutionary product design. I find and solve problems.

Short Facts

My work is used by 100m+ satisfied users in over 120 countries.
An e-commerce app in my responsibility had 1m+ downloads with a 4.9 ⭐ rating.
I strive for a balance between happy users, profitability, and technical advantage.
I work in multidisciplinary, stationary, and remote teams with developers, designers, and data scientists.

Fields of Expertise

Conversational Design
SaaS
Product Management
Evolutionary Design
Iterative Product Development
E-Commerce
Problem Analysis
User Research
Input Form Optimizations
UX Copywriting
Product Strategy
Multilingual Applications
Apps for Android and iOS
Responsive and mobile Websites
Ideation and Innovation
Microinteractions
Typography

Professional Life in a Nutshell

As a teenager, I started working at a small company called Multimedia Studio Rolf-Dieter Klein in Munich as a screen designer. After that, I studied communication design at HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd and the University of Arts in Berlin. Still in Berlin, I took on a couple of smaller jobs and eventually started a career at TBWA, a huge creative disruption agency.

I managed to transform myself into a UX expert and moved on to a well-paying but crappy job, before eventually landing a great gig at Thomann – one of Germany's top e-commerce players. With them, I had the opportunity to achieve some amazing things, like building a design team, a product management team, and implementing thousands of tiny and large improvements.

After my time at Thomann, I leaped into the world of freelance UX work, where I now serve clients in various areas, including e-commerce, SaaS, startups, and yes, even Thomann.

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My Strenghts and Weaknesses

Exclusively for you I took the self-analysis tool on 16Personalities and was as honest as possible with the answers. Some of them were honestly tough to answer.