I spent a good amout of time in Seattle, Hamburg and now live in southern Germany. I love to build detail-oriented user experiences that enable creatives to express themselves.
Latest work
It takes some time for product work to reach the light of day. Here's my most recent work that shipped
FEATURE: Masking 2.0
Making selective edits to an image is one of the complex, impactful edits you can make to a photo. After two years of design, research and engineering, we completely reimagined how localized edits are made in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom—with a focus on a great mobile experience, unlocking complex editing on a small form factor with the same power and precision of the desktop version.
My Role
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Lead mobile UX across iOS, iPadOS and Android. Collaborate with designers of other Lightroom clients for a cohesive product experience.
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Collaborate with Adobe Design Research group on user reserach studies.
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Collaborate with the Lightroom Product Team on vision, roadmap and release scoping.
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Design new onboarding experiences that help feature adoption of new and existing users.
Special attention has been given to Onboarding—bringing existing and new users along.
FEATURE OVERVIEW
Adobe's first cross-plattform video editor
Built for the era of the social media video creator, Adobe Premiere Rush brings professional grade video editing to the phone — feature parity across phone, tablet and desktop experiences.
My Role
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Leading the design of the user experience across desktop, tablet and mobile surfaces.
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Work closely with the product team defining user persona, product market fit and vision.
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Collaborate with the engineering teams building the foundation of Rush for a new surface (mobile).
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Help facilitate serveral rounds of user research to determine product market fit, user experience direction and roadmap.
Plenty of interactive prototypes have been created to explore and define timeline interactions
Photography
I'm a passionate photographer—people, travel, night sky. Here's a selection of my favorite photos. Follow me on Instagram.
Videography
I mentioned trains — so here's a montage of some Footage from Amtrak.
I'm a self tought product designer. I studied graphic design and visual communication. Here's some select work from wayback when.
Want to reach out? @johEckert • johannes@eckert.io