I assist you to create simple, emotional and effective user experiences for software and web applications.

Jonas Leist

Based in Berlin I am consulting software industries, business people, engineers and agencies on how to raise the level of user experience of their software and web applications. Passionate and focussed on complex interfaces whether as a partial outstanding consultant or in direct collaboration with your team I can help you to build a better product.

Due to twelve years experience as an interaction designer and usability expert and a degree in Interface Design from Potsdam University of Applied Sciences, I have wide methodical knowledge on how to embed user centered design in the development process of user interfaces and how to review their success. I support the whole development process beginning with the initial concept, building the information architecture, going over to wireframes and prototypes and ending up with the final visual design. Every stage of development can of course be accompanied by qualitative user tests for a better understanding of the user‘s needs.

From 1999 to 2004 I worked in numerous projects as self-employed and freelancer. Until 2010 I was managing partner of the agency Liebchen, Leist & Heine which was founded 2004 focussing on creating brand experiences in digital media.

Services

I can provide the following services customised for your product and goals as well as knowledge and methods essential for winning the challenge to satisfy your users and customers:

Interaction Design

  • Concept development
  • User scenarios and task analysis
  • Information architecture and wireframes
  • Tangible prototypes from low to high resolution

Visual Design

  • Art direction and typographic consulting
  • Graphical user interface and screen design
  • Style guide development

Usability Consulting

  • User and activity centered design
  • Expert and heuristic evaluation
  • Qualitative user testing from card sorting to eye tracking
  • Deep knowledge of ISO standards on ergonomics

Frontend Development

  • Semantic, accessible and SEO friendly HTML5 or XHTML
  • Bulletproof, cross-browser compatible CSS3 and CSS2
  • Responsive web design for mobile and tablet devices

Clients

I worked successfully in a broad range of application fields for consumer and professional projects, including communication, education, medical services, arts and entertainment:

  • Bayerischer Rundfunk
  • Berliner Philharmoniker
  • Bild.de
  • Boje Buck Filmproduktion
  • Bundesleistungszentrum Kienbaum
  • Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk
  • Deutsche Telekom Laboratories
  • Deutsche Universität für Weiterbildung, Berlin University for Professional Studies
  • Fachhochschule Potsdam, University of Applied Sciences
  • G&H Bankensoftware
  • Kieser Training
  • LucasFonts
  • OD-OS Retina Navigation Company
  • OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)
  • Ralf Ziervogel
  • Ring Deutscher Makler
  • Sanitätshaus Seeger
  • SensoMotoric Instruments
  • Smith & Nephew
  • Tropical Islands
  • TURM Erlebniscity Oranienburg