About

Since 2007, I have worked with numerous companies of all sizes, while continually expanding my professional education. I also teach design as an independent lecturer at universities and coach students and junior designers.

Portrait Oliver Jahn

Oliver Jahn

Senior Product Design & UX Consultant,
Design Lecturer & Mentor

Education

10/2013 – 02/2015

User Experience (UX)

btk – Hochschule für Gestaltung, Berlin

Bachelor of arts, Grade: 1.6

09/2007 – 07/2010

Media Design Apprenticeship

OSZ Druck- & Medientechnik, Berlin

State-approved professional degree

04/2004 – 08/2007

Archaeology, History of Arts, History

Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel

Positions

since 12/2011

Senior Product Design & UX Consultant

Freelance, Hamburg & remote

since 12/2011

Design Lecturer & Mentor

Freelance, Hamburg & remote

06/2011 – 09/2023

Digital Transformation Consultant

Dataport, Hamburg

01/2017 – 10/2017

Senior Experience Designer & Project Lead

Useeds, Berlin

07/2015 – 12/2015

User Experience Designer

Zalando, Berlin

01/2013 – 06/2015

User Experience Designer & Product Owner

welldoo, Berlin

12/2010 – 11/2011

Screendesigner

KMF Werbung, Berlin

02/2009 – 07/2010

Media Design Apprentice

arTec, Berlin

09/2007 – 01/2009

Media Design Apprentice

IG Nord, Kiel

Certificates

01/2025

Masterclass: Become a Sustainable UX Designer

SUX Academy, online

Certificate of attendance

11/2019

Masterclass: Business Innovation & Value Proposition Design

Strategyzer Academy, Munich

Certificate of attendance

Awards

11/2017

Africa FinTech Challenge Winner

Impact Hub Berlin, by order of GIZ

Industry Experience

  • Healthcare
  • Education & culture
  • NGOs & development
  • Farming & agriculture
  • Public sector & government
  • Agile & lean software dev
  • B2B, B2C and B2E
  • PaaS and SaaS
  • Safety
  • Finance & insurance
  • Automotive & mobility
  • Entertainment & games

Lectures

  • IU Internationale Hochschule
  • DCI Digital Career
  • SAE Institute

My Design Values

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Human-centered Design

Think beyond users and customers, but of any human being, affected by the product.

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Ethical Innovations

Use technology to improve interpersonal and interspecies relations and minimize harm to all life.

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Data-influenced Decisions

Make design decisions after evaluating clean research. Everything else is risky guesswork.

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Form Follows Function

Clear functionality is paramount to product success. Fancy aesthetics without a purpose are only visual noise.

Languages

German

Native speaker

English

Full proficiency

French

Working proficiency

Latin

Advanced certificate

“Oliver has exceedingly wide and very well-founded specialist knowledge, which he always knew how to convey to the students. He was highly motivated and showed an extraordinarily high level of initiative and commitment. He was extremely reliable and his working style was always characterized by very careful planning and a systematic approach.”

Portrait photograph of Philipp Dominski

Philipp Dominski

Head Instructor Web & Crossmedia at SAE Berlin (then)

Let’s Collaborate

Great things only come from diverse perspectives. Let's team up and converge ideas.

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