Welcome to my online portfolio —
My name is Christina. I’m a Munich-based design leader and strategist, shaping brands, products, and customer experiences – while leading change across teams and organizations.
Work
Some highlights of how design challenges were approached and solved. Focused on what went well, what went wrong and what was learned. A view of both the outcome and the process behind it.
Services
I’m currently open to new opportunities; remote or in Munich. Whether you’re looking to strengthen your team, shape better products, collaborate on something meaningful, or just exchange ideas:
— Email me
Resume
A consistent focus on design runs through my work experience, education and ongoing learning. Over time, this path evolved from hands-on design to leading teams and shaping strategy.
Wanna say hi ?
Welcome, mate.
Since 2012, I’ve been working at the intersection of design, strategy, and collaboration. I help organizations build services and products that feel useful, human, and thoughtful.
Strategic design connects the dots – between user needs, business goals, and product/service solutions. Done right, it aligns intent with action, delivers proven results, and builds trust through thoughtful products and services. Sounds interesting?
My way of Design Direction
Think
Embedding design into product vision, culture, and strategy.
— Co-shaping product vision and strategic roadmaps
— Turning user needs into business opportunities
— Framing design impact through clear metrics and storytelling
— Facilitating leadership alignment and decision-making
— Designing teams, roles, and processes that scale with growth
— Representing design at the leadership table
Grow
Developing people, teams, and cross-functional collaboration.
— Hiring across disciplines: product design, research, content
— Coaching individuals through 1:1s, feedback, and career paths
— Building psychologically safe and inclusive team cultures
— Driving team health and retention through clarity and care
— Fostering ownership, autonomy, and cross-functional trust
— Supporting ICs and leads in stepping into their next level
Build
Operationalizing design through systems, rituals, and shared standards.
— Establishing rituals and methods (e.g. design crits, retros, studios)
— Building design systems and design ops for scale and consistency
— Creating documentation, guidelines, and shared standards
— Defining ways of working that connect research, content, and UX
— Enabling asynchronous, transparent collaboration
— Raising design maturity across the org
Ship
Delivering experiences that turn complexity into clarity.
— Leading end-to-end UX from discovery to delivery
— Collaborating closely with C-levels, department leads and engineering
— Running design critiques, reviews, and quality checks
— Creating user flows, prototypes, and interaction specs
— Shipping MVPs and iterating based on insights
— Balancing speed and craft while keeping users at the center
Curious how this could work in your teams?
I’m currently open to new opportunities (remote or in Munich) and love to hear about meaningful design challenges.
Say hi if you’d like to collaborate, exchange ideas, or simply connect.
Wanna join ?
Meet me along the journey
The best way to know me is at on of the many barcamps, hackathons, conferences, trainings, workshops with me as an organizer, volunteer, mentor, influencer, speaker or writer.
