Melanie Fischer
At Orbit, Melanie is a Product Expert in UX & Service Design. As a user experience designer, she is a determined advocate for users of every single digital product or service. With her human centered design approach and a pragmatic, as well as curious mindset she unveils user problems, identifies potentials and finds solutions with the best possible fit to equip corporates and social initiatives to successfully address challenges and to enable them her with deep and holistic insights for digital transformation of their products. Having worked on projects in the fields of automotive, FinTech, healthcare, fashion, FMCG and social business, Melanie and her colleagues have created an agile set of tools for user research methodology and analysis at Orbit Ventures. Melanie holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Communication Arts and Time-Based Media from HBK Braunschweig & HTWG Konstanz.
- Definition of new ways-of-working concepts and strategies (agility, design thinking) for a startup of a DAX-listed automotive company
- Design user testing strategies (both quantitative and qualitative), as well as executing these for the automotive sector, insurance industry and SaaS platforms
- Redesign of existing product by analyzing user needs for revenue and sales uplift for the largest German caravan manufacturer
- Research on improving employee satisfaction and working conditions for nursing homes
- Conception and rollout of a social education platform for former foster children and young care leavers to provide support in the fields of financial issues and many more
- Researching and prototyping concepts for OBI Next
- Conception of a disruptive business model for „KfZ-Haftpflichtschaden“ repairs in Germany
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