Bernhard Snizek

My current mission is to lead an effort of increasing UX maturity of several teams developing products from the Dark Ages of UX to a Generally Infused Maturity.

Currently, I am co-creating the department’s UX Strategy to accomplish these goals, as well as facilitate the implementation of the following UX products in daily production:

• User Research

• Usability Interviews

• Design Studio Facilitation

• Creation of Personas

• Creation and maintenance of Design Infrastructure such as Design Systems etc.

• Developing and applying in-house methods for UX business value creation

• Design Thinking and Design Sprints

• Coach my colleagues with diverse backgrounds in becoming design thinkers

• Preach the principles of Lean UX on a daily basis

In my previous lives, I...

• have conducted Research at Copenhagen University (PhD) within mobility and modelling studies, mostly of bicyclists

• built agent-base models of hikers, bikers and capercaillies

• worked with decision support systems, interactive maps, public health, landscape analysis

• published in the fields of active transport research, historical GIS,

• participated in international conferences and seminars and

• have conducted peer reviews for several journals and books within planning and human movement analysis.

• taught courses at the University of Copenhagen at a bachelor’s level – latest: Design Methods for Landscape Architects

• have been working in areas of humanitarian crises in connection with international initiatives (Danish Demining Group / UNMACT 2003)