Martin Backes
Freiberuflich, Innovation Coach | Design Sprint Consultant & Trainer | Product Strategist, Design Sprints Studio
Berlin, Germany
About me
Innovate Better ⏱ Faster 🚀 Together 👥
Timeline
Professional experience for Martin Backes
Current 3 years and 10 months, since Dec 2019
Innovation Coach | Design Sprint Consultant & Trainer | Product Strategist
Design Sprints Studio
I facilitate and teach innovation processes, work as a product designer & strategist, workshop designer, and design sprint coach. Companies and institutions hire me to activate and facilitate innovation and change within their teams and organizations. I help them to develop and improve products, services, processes, and business models that set them apart – faster, while saving time, money, and resources. I am based in Berlin and work on-site as well as remotely across different time zones.
Current 13 years and 9 months, since Jan 2010
Product Designer | UX Designer | Creative Director | Brand Strategist
Martin Backes
I`ve been working on Freelance projects since 2008 and gained immense experience consulting and designing for brands, mobile platforms and websites, automotive in-car entertainment and infotainment systems, music soft- and hardware, interfaces for museums, financial services, interactive/non-interactive installations, and art installations. My passion for design spans all known (and some unknown) forms of media.
Current 14 years and 10 months, since Dec 2008
Creative Director | Audio Branding Expert | UX Sound + Visual Designer
aconica - creative lab for sound + mediaFocus: Sound & Media Design, Interactive Media, Event & Live Communication, Media-Enhanced Scenography, Museography, Exhibition Design, Multi-Sensory Marketing, Audio Branding, Digital Music
Current 17 years and 9 months, since Jan 2006
Artist
Studio Martin Backes
Besides working for the industry, I'm an artist playing with the ambiguity between the physical world and the digital realm, reflecting the blurred boundaries between analog + digital, reality + simulation, stability + disruption, figure + abstraction. My cross-border and experimental field of activity in the intermediate area of art, science, technology, and culture ranges from augmented reality & multimedia sound works to theatre dance pieces and installations, as well as sculptural and computer works.
• Process Lead: development and execution of blinkist’s brand and communications strategy for sound and audiovisual media • Mentoring, coaching and supporting founders, stakeholders through workshops (design thinking, design / brand sprints), meetings, etc. • Contracting & legal advice • Production & Design Lead: Leading the execution and production of blinkist’s brand and communications strategy for sound and audiovisual media
1 year, Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Design Lead: UX / IA / IXD / UI Design
Zerodebug
Focus: Brand Design, Mobile Design, UX / IA / IXD / UI Design • Developed and launched Soda app for iOS, the first modualr DJ app • Created information architecture, user interface, flows, wireframes & rapid prototypes for mobile and the overall Brand Design, Logo Design, etc.
3 years and 1 month, Oct 2014 - Oct 2017
Dozent für Brand Communication & Interaction Design
hdpk Hochschule der populären Künste
In my more than 7 years of teaching at different universities in Berlin (started at BTK at the University of Applied Sciences Europe in 2010), I have worked with students of all ages and enjoyed it a lot. I have taught different courses such as interaction design, brand communication and sound design. Beyond working directly with students, I have also enjoyed developing new course materials. These have included revising exam papers, creating worksheets and projects, and of course the awarding of marks.
3 months, Oct 2015 - Dec 2015
Konzepter / Information Architect / UX, IA, IxD, UI Designer
Saatchi & Saatchi Pro2 years and 1 month, Sep 2013 - Sep 2015
User Experience Designer and Researcher, HMI Concepts and Interaction Design
Carmeq GmbHFocus: User Experience & Interaction Design, Research, Innovation Design, Sound Design, Audiovisual Design, Prototyping, HMI Concepts, User Interviews & Usability Testing, Surveys
4 years and 10 months, Apr 2009 - Jan 2014
Dozent für Sound Design & Communication, Sonic Culture, Sound and Media Art
Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule
8 months, Feb 2013 - Sep 2013
Marketing and Communications Manager
EICT GmbH
Sound Designer
7 months, Jun 2005 - Dec 2005
Produzent, Tontechniker, Sound Designer
Media Musik
Tonstudio Praktikum bei Media Musik Hattendorf in Berlin
3 years and 1 month, Sep 1995 - Sep 1998
Brewer and Maltster
Wernecker Bierbrauerei
Educational background for Martin Backes
5 years and 10 months, Oct 2011 - Jul 2017
Art + Media Design
Universität der Künste Berlin
Media Design, Generative Design, Computional Art, Interactive, Interaction Design
2 years and 1 month, Apr 2006 - Apr 2008
Sound Studies
Universität der Künste Berlin
Klanganthropologie und Klangökologie, Experimentelle Klanggestaltung, Auditive Mediengestaltung und Akustische Konzeption
Languages
German
First language
English
Fluent
Spanish
Basic