Your contact persons at UID
Managing Director (CEO)
Dr. Claus Görner, Graduate Psychologist
Managing Director at User Interface Design GmbH since 1998. Founder of the German subsidiary of the Swedish UID AB (1997). Previously employed by the Gesellschaft fuer Software-Management and by the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. ISO board member and author of ISO 9241 and "Health and Safety at Work Act".
phone: +49 (0) 7141 3 77 00 0
Contact: Claus Görner
Managing Director (CEO)
Franz Koller, Graduate Computer Scientist
Managing Director at User Interface Design GmbH since 1998. Previously assistant manager at the former German subsidiary of the Swedish UID AB. Head of the "Interactive Products" team at Fraunhofer Institute IAO (1995-1997) Scientific assistant and project director at the University of Stuttgart (1987-1992); ISO board member for the design of multimedia systems.
phone: +49 (0) 7141 3 77 00 0
Contact: Franz Koller
Manager Enterprise Solutions, Head of Usability Engineering
Dr. Joachim Machate, Graduate Computer Scientist
Manager Enterprise Solutions at UID since 2003. In charge of the Usability Engineering department at UID since 2009. Head of Software Engineering from 2000 to 2009. Previously head of Marketing & Strategies team for "Interactive products" at the Fraunhofer Institute (IAO) (1998-2000). Before that as software developer for the IBM Deutschland GmbH at their scientific centre. Also many years as project manager and scientific assistant at the Fraunhofer IAO. Visiting lecturer for Software ergonomics at the FH Heilbronn (technical university) as well as editor of the book "User Interface Tuning".
phone: +49 (0) 7141 3 77 00 35
Contact: Joachim Machate
Manager Industry Solutions, Head of UID Munich
Andreas Beu, Graduate Engineer
With User Interface Design GmbH since 2000. In charge of Industry Solutions since 2001 and Head of UID Munich. User Interface Design Centre, Siemens AG, Munich (1998-2000). Prior to that as usability consultant at the Gesellschaft fuer Software Management, Stuttgart. From 2004 to 2006 Andreas Beu was President of the German UPA.
phone: +49 (0) 89 43 77 81 54
Contact: Andreas Beu
Research & Innovation
Prof. Dr. Michael Burmester, Graduate Psychologist
Counselor for Research & Innovation at UID. Head of the main research field of "Usability Engineering" at the Institute for Applied Research at the Stuttgart Media University since July 2005. Since September 2002 Professor of Ergonomics and Usability at the University of Applied Media Sciences in Stuttgart. Former managing director of UID branch office in Munich and in charge of the Usability Engineering department. Project coordinator at Siemens (1997-2000). Scientific assistant at the Fraunhofer IAO, responsible for national and international research and development projects.
Contact: Michael Burmester
Manager User Research
Jakob Biesterfeldt, Graduate Industrial Engineer
since 2004 with User Interface Design GmbH and since 2008 Manager of the User Research sector; project manager for User Interface Design GmbH in Munich; contact person for the International Usability Partners; until 2004, he was employed at the Competence Center Human-Computer Interaction of the Fraunhofer IAO; Jakob Biesterfeldt is a member of the UPA and tekom association.
phone: +49 (0) 89 43 77 81 52
Contact: Jakob Biesterfeldt
Manager Consulting & Training, Head of UID Dortmund
Dr. Ronald Hartwig, Graduate Computer Scientist
Since 2007, Ronald Hartwig has been working for UID as Manager Consulting & Training; since 2008 Head of UID Dortmund; as a graduate computer scientist with a focus on industrial and organizational psychology, he already worked as a consultant and expert in the field of usability and software ergonomics for renowned customers; his last position was head of Interactive Dialog Systems in the C-LAB of Siemens Business Services.
phone: +49 (0) 7141 3 77 00 0
Contact: Ronald Hartwig
Head of UID Mannheim
Dr. Peter Klein, Doctorate in Computer Science
Usability Engineer at UID since 2005; Head of UID Mannheim and UID authority for information visualization since 2009; former member of the research staff in the area of "Human-Computer Interaction" at the University of Konstanz, where he was involved in a variety of research and commercial projects; Lecturer at the University of Reutlingen and the University of Applied Media Sciences in Stuttgart.
phone: +49 (0) 0621 82 06 45 80
Contact: Dr. Peter Klein
Head of Software Engineering
Heiko Lewandowski, Graduate Computer Scientist
With UID since 2008 and Head of Software Engineering since 2009; previously, he worked at system houses like dmc digital media center GmbH and Vector Informatik GmbH; worked as a freelancer in IT during his studies in computer science; specialized in agile software development processes and the development of software architectures for .NET and Java.
phone: +49 (0) 7141 3 77 00 80
Contact: Heiko Lewandowski
Manager Consumer Solutions
Tobias Limbach, Economic Geographer
Usability Engineer at User Interface Design GmbH since 2007 and 2009 Manager Consumer Solutions since 2009; Contact person for the field of Automotive Solutions; from 2004 until 2007, he worked as a Senior Research Manager at the agency argonautenG2; from 2001 until 2004, he was a research assistant in the workgroup Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Konstanz. He is also a member of the BITKOM workgroup “Customer Satisfaction”.
phone: +49 (0) 89 43 77 81 71
Contact: Tobias Limbach
Manager Medical & Pharma Solutions
Alexander Steffen, Psycholinguist M.A.
Since 2005 Manager Medical & Pharma Solutions; he worked as a project manager for various companies and institutes such as the Institute for Medical Psychology and one of the leading German market research institutes "Gesellschaft für Innovative Marktforschung". He concentrates on user-centered design of medical devices, risk analysis and standard-compliant documentation of the development of medical devices. Before he started his career with UID, he worked as a project manager at the Institute of Phonetics and Speech Processing of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University at Munich.
phone: +49 (0) 0621 82 06 45 90
Contact: Alexander Steffen
Head of Design, Creative Director
Bernd Wiesenauer, Graduate Designer
Being the Creative Director since October 2006, he has been responsible for the Design division of User Interface Design GmbH. Before, he worked as a product designer for Prof. Wulf Schneider & Partner as well as for CAA AG. Bernd Wiesenauer was awarded the if product design award gold 2005 and the if product design award 2006. His previous customers included renowned companies such as BMW Motorrad, DaimlerChrysler, Ford, Harman Becker, Helit, Interlübke, Saab, Sedus, Skantherm and Thonet.
phone: +49 (0) 7141 3 77 00 61
Contact: Bernd Wiesenauer