About me

It's me, Tanja Brodbeck

– until recently I was studying Human-Centered Computing at the University of Reutlingen for my master's degree, just right after I've finished my Information Design bachelor studies at the Stuttgart Media University. 

I am born and raised in Germany, but I love traveling and especially Scandinavia. So I spent six months studying Graphic Design and Communication in Norrköping at Linköping University, Sweden as well. 

Besides all the things I got to know in my studies (web design, interaction design, user experience, design thinking and user testing) I love black coffee, Star Trek, Scandinavian Thrillers and Netflix – and definitely I have a deep passion for the internet and everything that's in it. From time to time, I feel myself as a digital nomad – but with a Swabian homebase in the Stuttgart metropolitan area.

I think design is made from humans for the humans. So buzzwords like user-centered or human-centered-design have a real value and content for me. They describe exactly what I expect from good design – and it's the kind of design I want to support to deliver. 

Interests

🌐 Webdesign and some basic webdevelopment
👩 User-centered design, User Experience, User Testing, Conception and Prototyping
📱 Interaction design and Interface Design
📷 Photography as a Hobby and on Instagram

Passionate about

☕ Coffee ...liquid black energy running through my veins
🖖 Star Trek Live long and prosper.
👁️ Netflix & Series Hannibal, Sherlock, Wallander, Dexter
👟 Running ...on a runner's high all the time

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📌 Current activities

👩‍💻 Past Experience

MAY 2020 - APRIL 2022
Codeatelier GmbH
UX-Designer
homee App: Conception of new features, handover to developer team. 

stromee App: Creation of visualizations for website, conception and design of parts of the website based on the CI, support for and execution of target group interviews and their evaluation.

KADIA, redesign of the machine interface: Conception, creation of wireframes and click dummies, planning and execution of workshops, arrangements with customers, planning and execution of user tests.

Further tasks: Support of the marketing team (e.g. creation of social media content), support of the conception and maintenance of the new company website, various internal talks/presentations on different (UX) topics.

MARCH 2021 - AUGUST 2021
Stuttgart Media University
Teaching
Screen Design/UX Design | Media Publishing

MARCH 2020 - APRIL 2020
Codeatelier GmbH
Working Student (Werkstudent)
Project work as UX designer and UX researcher

NOVEMBER 2019 - FEBRUARY 2020
Information Lovers
Working Student (Werkstudent)
Assistance of project work as an UX designer and UX researcher

SEPTEMBER 2018 - MARCH 2019
Fraunhofer-Institut für Produktionstechnik und Automatisierung (IPA)
Research Assistant (Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft)
Design and evaluation of a gamification approach for setters and operators of injection moulding machines.

MARCH 2017 - AUGUST 2017
IBM Deutschland Research und Development GmbH
Intership: Visual Designer/UX Designer
Development and visual presentation of UX concepts (with use of IBM Design Thinking), design of software interfaces with Sketch 3, design of a key visual, User Research and Competitive Research, working with international teams and a side project with another intern: New ways to make the IBM Lab Böblingen newsletter more exciting to consume and solve existing problems in the workflow to publish it.

NOVEMBER 2013 - AUGUST 2014
Fachsprachenzentrum (Language Learning Centre) Tübingen
Research Assistant (Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft)
Maintenance of the website, creation of information materials such as flyers and posters.

SEPTEMBER 2012 - AUGUST 2013
Umweltzentrum Tübingen e.V.
Voluntary ecological year (Freiwilliges Ökologisches Jahr)
Customer advisory (Sustainable garden design and building renovation), organization of workshops for children, representation of the association and its topics at events, planning and realization of donation events, maintenance and development of the association's website.

🎓 Education

MARCH 2018 - APRIL 2020
Reutlingen University
Human-Centered Computing, M.Sc.
Focus: Design and evaluation of a supporting tablet application for the operating room, consideration of questions in the field of medical informatics, conception and evaluation of a gamification approach in the context of production technology and the operation of injection moulding machines, participation in the implementation of a student conference 

SEPTEMBER 2014 - FEBRUARY 2018
Stuttgart Media University
Information Design, B.A.
Focus: User Testing, User Research, User Experience, Webdesign and -conception, Interaction Design

AUGUST 2016 - FEBRUARY 2017
Linköping University, Sweden
Graphic Design and Communication, B.A.
Semester abroad

OCTOBER 2013 - SEPTEMBER 2014
Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
Media Science and Philosophy, B.A.
Focus: Media Theory, Game Studies | Critical theory (Adorno, Marcuse)

JUNE 2012
Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Gymnasium Metzingen
Graduation: Abitur
Allgemeine Hochschulreife