Senior UI/UX Artist · Hamburg
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Senior UI/UX Artist and former Lead Artist at InnoGames, where I shaped the visual direction of Forge of Empires and more. Before that, a decade of browser and mobile games at Gameforge, next idea, eLeisure and gamigo. Games are my home turf, but I also design product pages, websites and apps across many industries, often with a touch of gamification, which I love bringing in wherever it fits.
Games, interfaces, and the systems behind them
After we shipped Forge of Empires, I moved on to one of our most iconic IPs. Tribal Wars was the foundation InnoGames was built on, and I had the opportunity to take a leading role on its sequel. It was also our very first game developed with a mobile version from day one.
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Handed an idea and a team, and asked to turn it into a game in a year. Best Browser Game 2013, and 10M+ downloads later.
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Probably my largest project ever. Sole UI/UX artist at the start: a style guide from scratch, then most of the screens, plus the Unity implementation.
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A mobile-only city builder extending the Forge of Empires concept, with a battle component on top. Cancelled before release.
View projectMünster · Karlsruhe · Hamburg since 2011
I trained as a painter before I ever trained as a designer: three years of apprenticeship, learning colour and surface by hand. Media design came next, and from 2001 onward, digital interfaces. I still think about how a surface is actually made.
gamigo, eLeisure, next idea, Gameforge, and since 2011 InnoGames, where I led the art team until 2018 and have worked as a Senior UI/UX Artist since.
My work sits where art direction meets usability, and I’ve never found those to be separate problems. Games taught me that the hard way: tight budgets, wildly varying screens, and players who will never read a tooltip.
That thinking travels well beyond games. I also design product pages, websites, apps, icons and illustrations for very different industries, often with a bit of gamification that turns a task into something people enjoy. The goal is always a distinct, beautiful design that puts the user first, works flawlessly and is finished down to the last pixel.
Motion only earns its place when it adds joy, guides the eye or tells a story, never for its own sake. And I stay curious: right now that means exploring what AI can do for my process and for interfaces. I’m good at this because I genuinely love doing it.
It all started with Deluxe Paint on the Amiga. A spark that is still burning.
Figma · Adobe Illustrator · Adobe Photoshop · Adobe XD · Sketch · ProtoPie
Miro · Confluence · Slack · Jira
GitHub · GitLab · Fork · Sourcetree · Unity 3D · Blender · Spine
Claude Code · Cursor · Scenario AI
What I’m actually good at
I don’t offer everything. If I’m not genuinely good at something I’d rather not sell it, so this is the short list: the work I’ve done enough times to be fast at, and to know where it goes wrong.
Available for freelance & art direction
Open to freelance UI work, art direction and design-system audits. For games, product pages and apps that have to work beautifully on every screen.
Let’s gooo