The Conceptual UX Designer and Team Lead Erik Scholz

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.

Overall

I am an assertive logistican with mild tendencies towards being observant, thinking, judging, and a tiny bit of introvercy.

My Strenghts as a Logistician

Being honest, direct, strong-willed, dutiful, very responsible, calm, practical, order creating/enforcing, and jacks-of-all-trades.

My Weaknesses as a Logistician

Being stubborn, insensitive, always-by-the-book, and judgemental.