Marina Kraus

@marinak
Product Designer | Content Creator
🇨🇭
she/her

Mastodon User

UX Design

Remote Worker

Vanlife

Mentor

Figma lover

Design Systems

Writer

Product Design

UI Design

Photographer

Watercolor Artist

Women in Tech

Learning to Code

Learn In Public

Blogger

Digital Marketing

Leadership

Visual Designer

Explores the web as a digital globetrotter. Always on the lookout for user feedback, new design trends and UX best practices - with passion for design, tools and tech in her luggage.

Thinks, researches and drafts while traveling or being at home - preferably between big mountains or deep fjords.

Always happy to meet sustainable, digital travel buddies. 😃

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I'm open to

speaking at events,

guest lecturing,

speaking on podcasts,

joining company boards,

creating a design system,

teaching design,

advising companies,

and consulting.

Contact Me

Resume

Jan 2022 - Present

Senior UX/UI Designer , Urbio

Aug 2019 - Present

Digital Creator, beAnywhere.ch

Jun 2020 - Dec 2021

Product & UX Designer , White Words

Nov 2014 - Dec 2021

Head of Communications , Qualitas AG

Links

whitewords : : UX and UI Blog

UX/UI mentoring 💜

beAnywhere : : Photography & Storytelling

Portfolio

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Swiss Alps Calendar 2023

Updated my connecting page I was mentoring for free on ADPList. The first 9 month were great so far. I got many bookings and met amazing people. But during the last weeks I just got no-show booking...

I love working with colors. That's why I wrote a blog post about Colors in UX Design. Happy reading. 😊 https://whitewords.io/blog/colors-in-ux/

Get your next remote UX job - A Playbook Need some help for UX job search? I made my playbook available for you on Gumroad. https://whitewords.gumroad.com/l/ux-job-playbook

beAnywhere

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Hike on Rasletinden

Calendar Switzerland 2023

Autumn colors in the Swiss mountains 🍁

Newsletter 'Grab a Coffee ☕️'

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Newsletter 'Grab a Coffee'

Newsletter 'Grab a Coffee ☕️' #47

Newsletter 'Grab a Coffee ☕️' #46

Newsletter 'Grab a Coffee ☕️' #45

UX Blog

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Footer design – Foundation of a website

Mega menus – A comprehensive guide + real life example!

3 powerful tips to avoid entropy in UX design

My 2021 Highlights

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UI Competition 👩‍💻 I participated in DesignFlows 2021. I wasn't selected for the top 40, but it was still a lot of fun. After all, if you don't try, you might not succeed. Here is my submitted prop...

Design System Bootcamp The next 5 weeks I will be attending the Memorisely Design System Bootcamp. Will be a fun way to learn more about organizing and setting up design systems with cross-function...

beAnywhere Working in something new and more to come 🙂 If you like 🤍, just follow 👇 https://www.instagram.com/beanywhere.ch/

Look, it's me. Want to know more about me and my experience during Memorisely's UX/UI Bootcamp? Read it on the Memorisely blog 👇 https://blog.memorisely.com/article/marina-kraus

Books

CX that sings - Jennifer L. Clinehens Maybe not one of the typical UX books, but definitely worth reading. Jennifer Clinehens tells you all about understanding, building and using customer journey ...

Don’t make me think - Steve Krug The undisputed bible among books for designers. Steve Krug gets to the heart of how to make it as easy as possible for users in every chapter. 👉 We only scan throug...

The Best Interface is No Interface by Golden Krishna This is a real eye-opener when it comes to today's digitalization mess. It becomes so clear that you don't need "just an app" for everything. In...

Show your work by Austin Kleon When you're on Polywork I think you do not need to read this book. You already know how to show your work, that you do not have to wait until you or your work is read...