About me
Marion is a heart-driven designer and strategic design consultant, electronic bracelet lover, just-do-it runner, fun-loving wake- and snowboarder… with a forklift license.
From startup to enterprise Marion helps customers to establish design practices in their organizations and she crafts award-winning products that people use. Marion currently works as a Senior Strategic Design Consultant at the Design & Co-Innovation Center SAP, where she applies a human-centered design approach to transform businesses into engaging and productive experiences. Prior to joining SAP she worked as a freelance consultant for various customers and led design teams at Vodafone’s user experience department.
Awards
2015 iF Design Award Medical Research Insights
2015 IXDA Interaction Awards Patient Data Explorer
2014 German Design Award Medical Research Insights
2014 Core77 Design Awards Winner: Professional Strategy & Research Notable
2014 SAP HANA Innovation Award Social Hero Innovator
2013 White House Office of Science and Technology Policy: Recognition
2013 Core77 App to the Future Design Award: Frigo – Feel your friend’s weather
2007 Intervactive Screen 0.7 Scholarship, Banff New Media Institute, Canada
2006 if Design Award: safe control i/i/d Bremen, Monforts Textilmaschinen GmbH & Co. KG
Talks & Teaching
11/2014 SAP Teched & D-Code, Berlin, Talk: “Creating Value with User Experience”
11/2014 Service Design Global Conference, Stockholm, Talk: “Impacting Quality of Life with Enterprise IT”
09/2014 Academic Design Management Conference, London: “The Workshop Canvas”
08/2014 Service Design Drinks, Berlin: “Designing for the Back-Office”
04/2014 Intersection 14, Paris, Talk: “Co-innovating with customers“
02/2014 SAP D-Code, Mannheim “From insight to action: A co-innovation success story.”
11/2013 Service Design Global Conference “Shipyard for Big Data Sailors: Streamlining your back-office”
04/2013 HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd: Desgin methods and processes Workshop
05/2012 Hybrid Symposium »Digitale Selbstvermessung« “Mapping Data in a World That Doesn’t Stop Talking”
05/2012 HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd: Mobile UX, Concept Development Workshop
10/2011 HfK Bremen: Interface Design, Processing and generative art
10/2009 HfK Bremen: Interface Design, HCI and Design Process
Selected Clients
CVS pharmacy, Deutsche Telekom, Essense NL, Experientia s.r.l., Fraunhofer IGD, HfG Gmünd, HfK Bremen, Kodak, Samsung, Swisscom, Testo GmbH, Vodafone Global, Volkswagen AG, Zalando GmbH