Jens Nikolaus designs software in Colorado, USA
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Currently, I am Head of Design at pganalyze leading research and design efforts
Often I get hired to help with anything research and design, sometimes I will move into a product management role or create a pull request on GitHub. At the end of the day I'm a designer. You can read my resume to learn how I ended up here, but this is what I am doing now.
- Leading and setting up research and design processes
- Interviewing and working with customers using Jobs to be Done
- Understanding how a business earns and spends money
- Translating and communicating customer problems
- Facilitating cross-functional collaboration
- Mentoring and connecting people
- Producing high-fidelity prototypes to validate concepts
- Ship software and repeat
I push for inclusion, a healthy work/life balance, sustainability, slowness, and I am trying my best to weave these values into my day-to-day work.
What I'm learning right now
For the last month or so I started learning how to eat better, and Noom is driving the change. Noom uses cognitive behavioral therapy to reduce stress and anxiety.
The biggest and probably not surprising takeaway so far is that change is difficult, and that being a student relieves me from a lot of stress. I don't own the process, and that feels great. I enjoy losing weight, but the biggest plus is that my energy levels considerably improved since I began this journey.
I also started practicing yoga recently.