David Jost

Product Designer, UI Engineer

Hello! I am an expert in digital product creation and user experience. I make human / machine interaction seamless since 2006 and ensure a real benefit for people that use digital products.

During my career I worked on all parts of the product creation process, from marketing in various agencies, to user research, concept creation, UI design and software development. Currently I focus my expertise on design systems, where my team and I close the gap between designers and developers.

Career

Spotify

October 2022

Senior Product Designer

Building the future of developer tooling with Backstage.io. Designing and developing Backstage UI and its design system.

Tasks include: Internal evangelism, running Workshops and talks, writing and maintaining documentation, managing goals and expectations between upper management and team, software architecture and programming, UI design reviews and feedback.

REWE Digital

June 2019

UI Engineer, Design System specialist

Role transformation to expert on design systems and team lead to bridge the gap between design and dev. Custom development of internal software for maintaining design systems. Initiator and driving force behind the design system team at REWE.

Tasks include: Internal evangelism, running Workshops and talks, writing and maintaining documentation, managing goals and expectations between upper management and team, software architecture and programming, UI design reviews and feedback.

August 2016

Senior UX & UI Designer

Co-Responsibility for concept and design of the recipes, offers and start page. Agile product development using micro services in various teams.

Worked on: B2C views of market offers, recipes and start page. Internal design for the UI library. Ran various workshops on IT history, IT infrastructure and building designs in the browser. Partially switched to the mobile app design team, supporting design efforts where needed.

HRS Group

January 2015

UX & UI Designer

Co-Responsible for desktop and mobile concept and design of business portals, agile software development with international teams.

Worked on: B2B Hotel sourcing platform used by Siemens, China mobile and others. B2C home page of HRS and the Hotel list view.

Sunzinet AG

April 2012

UX & UI Designer, Photographer

Concept, design and presentation of web projects, planning, concept and execution of photoshoots for various clients.

Clients include: Fraunhofer Institute, Creditreform, BWT, Maybach, SIG

Oevermann Networks GmbH

February 2010

UX & UI Designer

Concept, design and presentation of web projects, planning, concept and execution of photo shoots for various clients.

Clients include: Bayer, DHL, Bild-Kunst, Heidi Klum Management

encurio GmbH

August 2009

UX & UI Designer

Concept, design and presentation of web projects.

Clients include: L'Oreal, Bayer, Vichy

Macologne GmbH

September 2008

Junior UI & Print Designer,

Design and presentation of print and web marketing material and digital art projects.

Clients include City of Cologne, Remis, and Olivandenhof Cologne.

Spitzenfoto

December 2009–April 2020

Freelance photographer

My photo side-gig. Photography projects making pictures of people, places and our environment.

Places, Friends, Artists, Couples, Families, Businesses

Achievements

Initiated, planned, built, maintained and expanded the design system team and effort at REWE Digital.
Built and maintained the core UI library for the HRS design and frontend teams.
Initiated, built and ran the photography department at the agencies Sunzinet and Oevermann.