Product Designer
welcome to my creative space ✨
Hi! I am Elyssa Mae Gietzen and welcome to my creative space ✨
I am a Product Designer based in Germany passionate about creating thoughtful, accessible, and engaging digital experiences.
Currently, I design for the live streaming platform Joyn, where I work across Apple platforms including iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS. I enjoy transforming complex problems into intuitive user experiences through research, collaboration, and visual storytelling.
I believe great design happens when empathy, accessibility, and strategy come together to solve real problems and create lasting impact.
Joyn Streaming app (current job)
2026
Now live in DACH region • iOS, tvOS, aOS devices
ExtroPost AI-Scheduling app
2023
Tech Fleet • Voluntary project • iOS device focus
BeFitness App
2023
Student project • iOS & aOS device focus
My CV
Get to know me more 🔎
More about me
A Product Designer with a 2+ years of experience, who loves to create digital products that inspire and engage users by promoting a positive difference by providing accessibility & balancing both business and user goals. Over the course of 7+ years in customer-facing roles, transformed into an empathetic, creative and optimistic human providing innovative ideas to improve business capabilities.
Relevant Design Projects
Joyn Streaming App (DACH Region) - current job
March 2024 - present
available on App stores - Seven.One Entertainment GmbH
- Designing UX & UI mainly for iOS, iPadOS & tvOS platforms and partly supporting aOS device validated by qualitative and quantitive insights.
ExtroPost App
December 2023
Voluntary Project
- Designed an AI-generated scheduler web-app for Threads. Conducting UX research and ideation processes
BeFit-ness App
April 2023
Career Foundry UI Design Project
- Designed iOS and Android versions of a native mobile app for planning workouts splits and party sharing, live coaching video calls and meal planning. Conducted UX research and ideation processes
Relevant Work Experience
Product Designer
Munich, Germany
March 2024 - present
- Designing the user interface of the Joyn streaming app for Apple devices, partly supporting Android mobile as well
- Develop the user experience of the app by measuring KPIs and adapt qualitative and quantitative insights from our research & data team
- working with 12 Apple Engineers, 15 cross-platform Product designers, and 6 UX Researchers
UI/UX Designer
Remote
Tech Fleet (Threads Scheduler App)
August 2023 - December 2023
- Designing an AI-generated scheduler web-app for Threads. Conducting UX research and UI design ideation processes
UI Design Intern
Karlsruhe, Germany
inovex GmbH
September 2022
- Streamlined the onboarding experience for new hires by developing a landing page prototype and animations for a collaboration tool called Scrumlr
Education
UI Design w/ Animation Specialization
October 2022 - May 2023
- Designed comprehensive student digital projects under the guidance of a tutor and a mentor
- Created responsive web and mobile apps while adhering to the design principles, heuristics, design systems, UX fundamentals and user psychology
- Interpreted business requirements and built a cohesive brand
- Conducted user research and user testing, created user flows, responsive grids, style guides, wireframes and prototypes, applied the visual designs and animation
B. Sc. Tourism Management
June 2009 - September 2012
- Studied the fundamentals, principles and theory of travel and tourism management
Product Designer
welcome to my creative space ✨
Hi! I am Elyssa Mae Gietzen,
I am a Product Designer based in Germany passionate about creating thoughtful, accessible, and engaging digital experiences.
Currently, I design for the live streaming platform Joyn, where I work across Apple platforms including iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS. I enjoy transforming complex problems into intuitive user experiences through research, collaboration, and visual storytelling.
I believe great design happens when empathy, accessibility, and strategy come together to solve real problems and create lasting impact.
Joyn Streaming app (current job)
2026
Now live in DACH region • iOS, tvOS, aOS devices
ExtroPost AI-Scheduling app
2023
Tech Fleet • Voluntary project • iOS device focus
BeFitness App
2023
Student project • iOS & aOS device focus
My CV
Get to know me more 🔎
More about me
A Product Designer with a 2+ years of experience, who loves to create digital products that inspire and engage users by promoting a positive difference by providing accessibility & balancing both business and user goals. Over the course of 7+ years in customer-facing roles, transformed into an empathetic, creative and optimistic human providing innovative ideas to improve business capabilities.
Relevant Design Projects
Joyn Streaming App (DACH Region) - current job
March 2024 - present
available on App stores - Seven.One Entertainment GmbH
- Designing UX & UI mainly for iOS, iPadOS & tvOS platforms and partly supporting aOS device validated by qualitative and quantitive insights.
ExtroPost App
December 2023
Voluntary Project
- Designed an AI-generated scheduler web-app for Threads. Conducting UX research and ideation processes
BeFit-ness App
April 2023
Career Foundry UI Design Project
- Designed iOS and Android versions of a native mobile app for planning workouts splits and party sharing, live coaching video calls and meal planning. Conducted UX research and ideation processes
Relevant Work Experience
Product Designer
Munich, Germany
March 2024 - present
- Designing the user interface of the Joyn streaming app for Apple devices, partly supporting Android mobile as well
- Develop the user experience of the app by measuring KPIs and adapt qualitative and quantitative insights from our research & data team
- working with 12 Apple Engineers, 15 cross-platform Product designers, and 6 UX Researchers
UI/UX Designer
Remote
Tech Fleet (Threads Scheduler App)
August 2023 - December 2023
- Designing an AI-generated scheduler web-app for Threads. Conducting UX research and UI design ideation processes
UI Design Intern
Karlsruhe, Germany
inovex GmbH
September 2022
- Streamlined the onboarding experience for new hires by developing a landing page prototype and animations for a collaboration tool called Scrumlr
Education
UI Design w/ Animation Specialization
October 2022 - May 2023
- Designed comprehensive student digital projects under the guidance of a tutor and a mentor
- Created responsive web and mobile apps while adhering to the design principles, heuristics, design systems, UX fundamentals and user psychology
- Interpreted business requirements and built a cohesive brand
- Conducted user research and user testing, created user flows, responsive grids, style guides, wireframes and prototypes, applied the visual designs and animation
B. Sc. Tourism Management
June 2009 - September 2012
- Studied the fundamentals, principles and theory of travel and tourism management
Product Designer
welcome to my creative space ✨
Hi! I am Elyssa Mae Gietzen,
I am a Product Designer based in Germany passionate about creating thoughtful, accessible, and engaging digital experiences.
Currently, I design for the live streaming platform Joyn, where I work across Apple platforms including iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS. I enjoy transforming complex problems into intuitive user experiences through research, collaboration, and visual storytelling.
I believe great design happens when empathy, accessibility, and strategy come together to solve real problems and create lasting impact.
Joyn Streaming app (current job)
2026
Now live in DACH region • iOS, tvOS, aOS devices
ExtroPost AI-Scheduling app
2023
Tech Fleet • Voluntary project • iOS device focus
BeFitness App
2023
Student project • iOS & aOS device focus
My CV
🔎 Get to know me more
More about me
A Product Designer with a 2+ years of experience, who loves to create digital products that inspire and engage users by promoting a positive difference by providing accessibility & balancing both business and user goals. Over the course of 7+ years in customer-facing roles, transformed into an empathetic, creative and optimistic human providing innovative ideas to improve business capabilities.
Relevant Design Projects
Joyn Streaming App (DACH Region) - current job
March 2024 - present
available on App stores - Seven.One Entertainment GmbH
- Designing UX & UI mainly for iOS, iPadOS & tvOS platforms and partly supporting aOS device validated by qualitative and quantitive insights.
ExtroPost App
December 2023
Voluntary Project
- Designed an AI-generated scheduler web-app for Threads. Conducting UX research and ideation processes
BeFit-ness App
April 2023
Career Foundry UI Design Project
- Designed iOS and Android versions of a native mobile app for planning workouts splits and party sharing, live coaching video calls and meal planning. Conducted UX research and ideation processes
Relevant Work Experience
Product Designer
Munich, Germany
March 2024 - present
- Designing the user interface of the Joyn streaming app for Apple devices, partly supporting Android mobile as well
- Develop the user experience of the app by measuring KPIs and adapt qualitative and quantitative insights from our research & data team
- working with 12 Apple Engineers, 15 cross-platform Product designers, and 6 UX Researchers
UI/UX Designer
Remote
August 2023 - December 2023
- Designing an AI-generated scheduler web-app for Threads. Conducting UX research and UI design ideation processes
UI Design Intern
Karlsruhe, Germany
September 2022
- Streamlined the onboarding experience for new hires by developing a landing page prototype and animations for a collaboration tool called Scrumlr
Education
UI Design w/ Animation Specialization
October 2022 - May 2023
- Designed comprehensive student digital projects under the guidance of a tutor and a mentor
- Created responsive web and mobile apps while adhering to the design principles, heuristics, design systems, UX fundamentals and user psychology
- Interpreted business requirements and built a cohesive brand
- Conducted user research and user testing, created user flows, responsive grids, style guides, wireframes and prototypes, applied the visual designs and animation
B. Sc. Tourism Management
June 2009 - September 2012
- Studied the fundamentals, principles and theory of travel and tourism management
