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Vita & Portfolio

Alexander Kimmel

UX Designer, consultant, and OKR master based in Sommerhausen, Germany — trained first as a joiner, now building the same precision into digital products for logistics and enterprise software.

alexanderkimmel@alexanderkimmel.de

Skills

UX Design90%
OKR80%
Illustrator75%
Adobe XD70%
HTML / CSS / Less / JS60%
Photoshop60%
Figma60%

German

Native

English

Fluent

Work Experience

March 2022 — July 2026

UX/UI Designer · Consultant · OKR Master

EIKONA Logistics, Volkach

Modular software for freight forwarding and logistics, framework redesign and ongoing development, delivery of customer-specific workflows, leading the cross-team company-wide OKR framework

January 2018 — February 2022

UX Designer · Consultant

Noxum GmbH, Würzburg

Browser-based CMS and PIM systems, content delivery and global service portals, UX workshops run alongside client projects

March 2015 — Present

Owner

KAdvise

UI design, usability consulting, web design, and CI/CD

September 2017 — December 2017

UX Designer · Interaction Designer

ISO Software Systeme / Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen

Diagnostic imaging (magnetic resonance) systems, system architecture

March 2014 — March 2015

Working Student

SSI Schäfer Noell GmbH, Giebelstadt

Usability and UX project team, bachelor's thesis: conceptual design of a visually-guided, paperless picking system for industrial use with data glasses

1998 — 2014

Earlier roles

Adult education referent for job seekers, part-time work in funeral typography, ceremonies and contract administration, trained and worked as a joiner, including prototype boat-deck construction

Selected Work

Two case studies from recent projects — designing for logistics operators, and modernizing an existing product.

Case Study 01 — Cargo Logistics

A logistics platform dashboard, built for the pace of a dispatch floor

An AI powered logistics platform dashboard, built for the pace of a dispatch floor Freight dispatchers were working across a dozen disconnected views to track shipments, capacity, and exceptions in real time. I designed a modular dashboard that groups live shipment data, fleet capacity, and exception alerts into widgets operators can rearrange to match their own workflow.

  • — Reduced cognitive load by consolidating real-time data into scannable widgets
  • — Modular layout lets each dispatcher configure their own priority view

Case Study 02 — Product Re-Design

Modernizing a legacy system without losing what it already did well

An existing business application had grown feature by feature over a decade, with no shared visual language between screens. I audited the interface end to end, then introduced a design system — consistent components, spacing, and interaction patterns — and rebuilt key workflows around it.

  • — Replaced dense, undifferentiated tables with a clear component hierarchy
  • — Introduced a reusable design system to speed up future development
  • — Desktop first, but always keep responsive design in mind

Education

2010 — 2015

Human-Computer Systems — Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg

2002 — 2007

Vocational teacher training, construction technology — Technische Universität München

1995 — 1998

Journeyman's certificate, joinery — Schreinerei Supp, Sommerhausen

Beyond Work

1998 — 1999

Civil service as a care assistant — Missionsärztliche Klinik Würzburg

Since 1988

Active member of Musikkapelle Winterhausen e.V. — trombone, guitar, sound engineering, board member and instructor