Summary

Our goal at Datawrapper is to help you create beautiful visualizations and that means making our app intuitive, easy-to-use, and even beautiful too. Product design is an important part of all our design teams work, and were now growing that area more with the help of Moritz Kuhn, who joins us four days a week from Frankfurt as a product designer.

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Hello! My name is Moritz, and I joined Datawrapper as a data vis product designer in April. Im based in Frankfurt am Main and work mostly remotely, but visit Berlin every now and then.

I explored architecture and communication design before ultimately deciding to study design at HfG Gmnd, where I graduated with a bachelors degree in interaction design. My thesis focused on haptic feedback for digital products.

Im a curious person and strongly believe in learning by doing. After my studies, I was eager to explore different areas of design work. I had the opportunity to work in a more strategic role as a service designer and also collaborate with a good friend on a payment services startup. These experiences helped me realize that Im happiest when working in a team and contributing long-term to a purposeful product.

I had the chance to sharpen my product design skills at a digital design agency. One of the projects I worked on there was an outdoors platform with over a million active users. We developed an extensive white label design library to make the system compatible for other brands under the same umbrella brand as well.

During my studies, I was introduced to interactive and generative data visualization by my professors Benedikt Gro and Hartmut Bohnacker, coauthors of the book Generative Design. I loved how data visualization brings storytelling together with

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