Senior UX Consultant

A—01 / Curriculum Vitae

CV

Sven Barth

Senior UX Consultant & Creative Technologist

Specialized in IoT Ecosystems, AI-Driven Workflows & Code-Integrated Design Systems

Experienced Senior / Lead UX Design Consultant with a solid academic background in IoT – Digital Product Design & Development and a strong commercial and technical foundation. Specialized in the professional leadership of design teams, structuring complex IoT & e-commerce platforms, and implementing modern AI design operations. By connecting Figma design systems directly to AI code generators (v0/Vercel, Claude), I drive the “Fail ultra fast, succeed even faster” approach — for prototypes that are instantly experienceable directly in code, maximum brand consistency, and a significant reduction in development and testing costs.

Professional Experience

01/2023 – Present
Senior / Lead UX Design Consultant
Zoi Tech Con GmbH, Cloud Native Tech Consulting
- UX Design Lead for a global flagship app: professional leadership of a 3-person UX/UI team for the leading Home & Garden app — a hybrid consumer app combining complex IoT hardware control for autonomous equipment / robotics with a marketing & e-commerce platform.
- AI-Powered Rapid Prototyping & Code-Gen: implemented an ultra-fast prototyping pipeline with AI tools (v0/Vercel, Claude Code/Design) following the principle “Fail ultra fast, succeed even faster” to generate fully functional code prototypes ahead of actual software development.
- Design Ops & Figma-to-Code Pipeline: connected and governed the existing Figma design system with AI generators (v0) to render AI-generated code prototypes 100% consistent with the corporate identity at the push of a button.
- AI & Smart Robotics Features: conception and UX architecture for AI-supported app functionality in autonomous robotics and intelligent user assistance.
- Cross-Functional & Stakeholder Management: close alignment of feature roadmaps, system architectures, and UI patterns with POs, platform drivers, and product managers across the ecosystem.
- Design Operations & Community Lead: optimized design infrastructure, standardized design-to-dev handovers, and led and trained the internal UX community.
10/2020 – 01/2023
UX Designer
Zoi Tech Con GmbH, Cloud Native Tech Consulting
- IoT Product Landscape: structured a digital product landscape for IoT applications, including information architecture and navigation structure.
- Agile UX: UX design for responsive IoT platforms within an agile software development process (Scrum).
- Website & CMS Migration: migrated and redesigned a complex website landscape and its associated content management system.
- Prototyping & Research: high-fidelity prototyping as well as conception and support of user research measures.
2019 – 2020
Frontend Web Developer
CARPT
- Frontend web development and maintenance of WordPress-based websites using HTML5, CSS, and responsive layouts.
11/2018 – 05/2019
Working Student, Prototyping & Design
Robert Bosch GmbH, UX Projects, Prototyping & Design
- Developed a global design system and documented the design tokens.
04/2018 – 09/2018
Intern, Prototyping & User Research
Robert Bosch GmbH, UX Projects, Prototyping & Design
- Co-moderated user interviews/tests (autonomous driving) and created UI prototypes in HTML, CSS, and Vue.js.

Earlier Roles & Commercial Practice (2012 – 2020)

Salesurance (2020): Business Developer (SEO, Digital Knowledge Management)
Kelch GmbH & Co. KG (2015–2016): Logistics & Wholesale
Emil Löffelhardt GmbH & Co. KG (2012–2015): Apprenticeship as Wholesale & Foreign Trade Merchant

Education

03/2016 – 08/2019
Hochschule für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Gmünd
Bachelor of Arts (Grade: 1.8) – Internet of Things: Digital Product Design & Development
Thesis: ICCS – Intelligent Crane Control Systems
2025
Scrum.org
Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I)
Certification in agile product ownership and value-driven backlog management.

Skills & Capabilities

Design & Strategy: UX Lead & Governance, Design Operations (DesignOps), User Experience Design, User Interface Design, Design Systems, Information Architecture, User Research & Testing, Google Design Sprints, Design Thinking
AI & Innovation: AI-Powered Rapid Prototyping (v0/Vercel, Claude Code/Design), AI Features for Robotics/IoT, Prompt Engineering, Figma-to-Code AI Integration
Prototyping & Tech: High- & Low-Fidelity Prototyping, Interactive Code Prototypes, Agile Development (Scrum, Kanban), Project Management
Tools: Figma, v0 (Vercel), Claude, Miro, ProtoPie, Sketch, ZeroHeight, Frontify, Jira, Confluence, Adobe Creative Suite
Code / Web Dev: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Vue.js, Node.js, C++
Languages: German (native), English (business proficient / fluent)

Selected work

B—02 / Work

012024–2026

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Home & Garden App

Rebuilding both a poorly rated IoT app and the way we work — a hierarchical design system, agile + design-sprint process, and a Figma-to-v0 prototyping pipeline.

UX Lead · Design System · AI Prototyping

022026

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Tabletop Community Development

Community-Centric Product Engineering: Full-Stack Web Tools & AI Support for World-Class Strategy Gaming

UX · Systems

Case studies in progress — we'll build these together.

What you see is what you get!

C—03 / Approach

AI & Future Tech

I conceive innovative AI solutions and use AI tooling to turn ideas into functional prototypes in record time.

Interface Competence

I speak fluent "IT" and "Design" — steering interdisciplinary teams toward outcomes with confidence.

Efficient Prototyping

Modern workflows make concepts immediately tangible, testable, and verifiable.

Stakeholder Management

I translate complex user needs into business-critical solutions.

D—04 / About

I embrace complexity to design for simplicity.

Whether I'm untangling high-stakes IoT systems at work, mapping out competitive table-top strategy games at a world-class level, or building full-stack tools for my community, I thrive in complex environments. My goal is always the same: turn intricate, multi-layered challenges into intuitive, effortless experiences.

My work sits at the intersection of IT and design: analytical, structured, and always user-first. I favor rapid results and a fail-fast mindset, and the latest advances in AI let me overcome the language barriers I once faced in code — taking on ever more complex development topics myself.

Outside of digital product design and rapid prototyping, my life is grounded in real-world connections. I live in the heart of Berlin (Prenzlauer Berg) with my wife. You'll often find me taking in the energy of the city via public transport, enjoying late summer evenings along Kastanienallee, listening to electronic music, or preparing for my next strategy tournament.