Our Awards Jury Knows Great UX Design

Gennett is head of brand experience globally at Siemens. She is passionate about helping brands to “do different” to make a difference and shape a positive future today. In her career, she has worked with various brands in the automotive, travel, banking, healthcare, energy, and home appliances sector.

Gennett holds a Diploma and MA in Communication Design and an MBA in Business Administration. She is a lover of creativity, humor, and excellence. And so far, she has lived on three continents: Londoner at heart, Berliner by default, and Beijing-inspired.

Passionate about the strategic impact of User Experience, Susanne loves to demonstrate how UX contributes to business success in healthcare.

With a background in Psychology and over 20 years of experience in UX, in academia and med tech, she brings deep insight into human behavior to shape healthcare experiences that truly support time-pressed medical professionals, creating solutions that allow to focus on what matters most: their patients - while also combating the increasing shortage in healthcare staff.

Susanne is driven by advancing UX maturity in organizations, has led the development of corporate design systems and its implementation across the enterprise, and contributed to several solutions used by radiology and cardiology professionals day-by-day. Her expertise also spans user research and interaction design and she advocates user-centricity as a key ingredient for successful innovations.

Noor Dar is an executive product design leader who focuses on shaping digital products and services in the fintech and digital assets industries.

She leads the product design practice at Börse Stuttgart Digital & Bison across Germany and Europe. There, she creates experiences for crypto and digital brokerages with a holistic, human-centered approach where usability, accessibility, and brand come together seamlessly.

Noor champions design as a bridge between people and growth, where strategy, usability, and inclusivity converge.

Her career spans B2C and B2B, fintech, digital transformation, and creative direction. As Head of Product Design at Timeless, she developed the platform in nine months and grew it to over €39 million in tokenized trading volume within three years. Noor has also consulted with companies such as E.ON and Mercedes-Benz, guiding their digital transformation initiatives and exploring early AI-driven solutions.

Florian brings extensive expertise in digital product design and user-centered innovation. As Chapter Lead Digital Design and Lead UI Design at Deutsche Telekom, he is dedicated to advancing design excellence within the organization and experience quality for its customers throughout the company’s digital services.

He is passionate about making thinking tangible – transforming ideas into clear, purposeful outcomes. With a strong belief in the craft of design, Florian thrives on creating clarity within complexity and ensuring that every interaction delivers meaningful value to the user. With a community mindset, he empowers teams and fosters collaboration.

Alicia is a Senior UX Concept at Scholz & Volkmer, specializing in developing digital strategies and information architecture for leading brands.

In her role as a project lead, Alicia adeptly balances strategic vision with a keen focus on user-centric needs. She likes to improve the collaboration between different disciplines, such as design, concept, and technology, utilizing the ever-evolving tools in our industry.

With a strong foundation in classic design and smart digital systems – gained through her studies in Design at the Bauhaus University in Weimar (B.F.A.), Elisava University in Barcelona, and Hochschule RheinMain (M.A.) in Wiesbaden – she prioritizes "classic clarity and unambiguity" in user interfaces.

Her work focuses on rethinking common components with our evolving technological advancements such as AI and simplifying digital interactions, subtly modernizing systems while retaining classic structures. The goal is to make users feel comfortable amidst rapid changes and maintaining their ease of use.

Seulki Lee is an Associate Design Director who specializes in creating digital products and services that align human needs with business objectives. With cross-industry experience in healthcare, finance, real estate, and enterprise SaaS, she is skilled at navigating complex and regulated environments where trust and compliance are critical.

Her work focuses on guiding products from early research and prototyping through implementation and adoption, ensuring that strategic decisions translate into seamless user experiences. Passionate about AI-driven and data-intensive design, she is committed to building scalable and safe solutions that deliver lasting impact.

Alexander Livigni is Partner and senior UX/UI expert with 14+ years' experience designing B2B/B2C systems at forwerts. He enables design leadership and empowers cross-functional teams through creative direction, agile methods, and user-centered strategy. His work for brands like Audi and Deutsche Bahn reflects excellence in both execution and team-driven innovation.

Norman is a passionate UX/UI and Strategic Designer with ten years of experience at Siemens Home Appliances. He has made a lasting impact by creating multiple global user interface design languages while prioritizing a strategic and interdisciplinary approach.

Norman has gained valuable insights into user behavior and cultural nuances during his career. In addition to his design work, he serves as a lecturer in interaction design, where he mentors young designers. With his enthusiasm for innovative design, Norman is always looking for inspiration to advance the field of design.

Nadine Rosenkranz is a Creative Director at wirDesign specializing in branding, brand development, and brand management with a strong focus on user experience.

Her conviction is to always challenge the status quo – questioning conventions, approaching problems from fresh perspectives, and shaping forward-thinking solutions. She draws her motivation from collaboration, where the exchange of ideas, creativity, and shared passion with clients and teams alike inspires her to explore new directions and achieve impactful results.

Believing that brands must act responsibly in times of social and ecological change, she advocates for sustainable, socially oriented branding that combines commercial success with societal impact. Her work places people at the center of every process, ensuring that design is intuitive, inclusive, and transformative.

With extensive experience across industries such as finance, IT, seed producer, consumer brands, and education, she develops systems that empower brands to deliver meaningful and future-oriented user experiences.

Hendrik is a creative professional and manager who passionately creates visionary products and services. As a cross-disciplinary design director with a deep understanding of users, business, and technology, he helps companies create strategies and translate them into experiences.

Claudia is Design Business Manager at PHOENIX, based in Stuttgart. In this role, she builds client relationships and leads design teams to create impactful customer experiences and services that not only meet people’s needs but also elevate brand identity.

With a passion for a holistic approach to interaction and industrial design, Claudia has worked for a diverse range of industries, including automotive, aviation, healthcare, energy, home appliances, and consumer electronics.

From shaping visionary concepts to supporting their successful implementation, she attaches great importance to making ideas tangible. She is driven by the excitement of seeing great design come to life and resonate in the market.

Claudia holds an Industrial Design Diploma with a focus on interaction design from the Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences.

Tiange Wang is an award-winning and internationally-exhibiting designer and creative technologist. Her work investigates innovative interactive paradigms among humans, technology and the environment. Tackling subjects like climate change, holistic wellbeing and emerging technologies, she employs mediums including multimodal interaction, creative data visualization, multimedia art, food, software, AI and games.

At IDEO, she leads teams in crafting human-centered, planet-conscious, data-informed and GenAI-enabled product experiences across web, mobile and spatial computing platforms. She helps clients in technology, healthcare, media, climate, and consumer sectors transform early ideas into market-ready products. She also curates Emerging Wave, IDEO’s weekly R&D series on emerging technologies and human-centered design.

Her work has been recognized by UX Design Awards, Core77, Red Dot, and iF among others, and showcased at SXSW, SIGGRAPH, CHI, the MIT Museum, Fast Company, Dezeen and more.

Tiange holds a Master of Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture with High Honors from the University of California, Berkeley.

Bernd Wiesenauer serves as the Director of User Experience Enabling at Bosch, driving the company's transformation into a human-centered organization. He is responsible for the UX Maturity Model and Assessment, UX Networking, the UX Convention, and UX Knowledge Transfer, as well as overseeing the Bosch UX Academy and its curricula.

Prior to Bosch, he was Head of Design at User Interface Design GmbH for over six years, where he integrated user-centered design for clients like Jura and Vorwerk.

Bernd studied product and environmental design at the University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam and has held various roles, including designing ergonomic driver information systems for automotive giants such as Daimler and Porsche, and developing furniture for brands like Thonet and Cor.

Greg Zholdak leads the product design team at a UK fintech Moneybox. With over a decade of experience driving digital transformation strategy and customer-centric innovation in Canada and the UK, he brings deep expertise in leveraging emerging technologies to shape the future of user experience, having delivered scalable design solutions across a portfolio of industries.

In his work, Greg has influenced design cultures of global organizations, championing accessible design and sustainable innovation. He is passionate about mentoring emerging design talent and fostering strong cross-functional collaboration.