Adrian Trinkaus

Crafting engaging and beautiful, yet humane and useful digital experiences.

User Experience Designer, Co-Founder of
Framey

Rich user experiences are not only about an aesthetic interface and what you can do with it. Rich interactions go beyond making people’s lives easier by sparking joy for the task at hand.

Selected Work

A variety of skills proven in multiple projects.

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About

Hi, I’m Adrian. Nice to meet you.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. In an abundant world with endless options, my mission is to cut out the clutter to provide delightful digital experiences.

As a digital creative, I love everything design-related and have a fable for aesthetics regardless of the design discipline. At the core I believe in minimalism in life as well as in design where I follow an approach of having and doing less, but better.
There is so much noise and clutter in the world. In my opinion, design can help a lot to cut the noise and to declutter to be more focused and balanced. It is my objective to make complex coherences accessible and ridiculously easy in order to enable humans to engage in the digital world.
Besides work, I am interested in living a well-balanced, active lifestyle.

Curriculum Vitae

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Remote & Stuttgart, DE | Currently
UX/UI Designer
Strichpunkt Design
Berlin & Stuttgart, DE | 2 years
Intern & Student UX/UI Design
Strichpunkt Design
Stuttgart, DE | 2 years
Working Student Graphic Design
Daimler Fleetboard
Munich, DE | 2 years
Trainee Media Design
Infoscreen
Bachelor of Arts | July 2021
Informationdesign
Stuttgart Media University
Munich, DE | 2 years
Media Design
BSZ Alois Senefelder
Bachelor of Arts | July 2021
Informationdesign
Stuttgart Media University
Remote | Currently, since 10/2021
Co-Founder
Framey
Munich, DE | 2 years
Media Design
BSZ Alois Senefelder
Remote | Currently, since 07/2021
UX/UI Designer
Strichpunkt Design
Berlin & Stuttgart, DE | 2 years
Intern & Student UX/UI Design
Strichpunkt Design
Stuttgart, DE | 2 years
Working Student Graphic Design
Daimler Fleetboard
Munich, DE | 2 years
Trainee Media Design
Infoscreen

What it's like working with me

»Adrian attacks the most complex project work with a passion and love for understanding the bigger picture and breaking it quickly down into digestible components, backed up with an intense loyalty and appreciation for team and readily supporting exploration based on user feedback and new findings.«

— David Linderman, Ex CCO at Strichpunkt Design

»Adrian was supporting us on high-end projects across a multitude of industry sectors. Adrian was an integral team player that supported us with user research, user journeys and prototyping, helping us secure a front-runner position as pitch finalists. I would highly recommend him for any growing digital agency. You would do well to have him on board.«

— Darren Jones, Ex Head of UX/UI at Strichpunkt Design

Team work and communication are essential in an creative environment, since great ideas come up when everyone brings something to the table. Direct, honest, frequent and open communication enable transparency and help bringing everyone on the same page.
I am always eager to learn from others and share my knowledge. By exchanging experiences and knowledge, a team can grow together and live up to their fullest potential.

Fluent in German and English

With German as my mother tongue and English at a B2+/C1 level, I am not afraid to work in an international context.

Working Remotely

With collaborative work via cloud and benefits for creativity, productivity and well-being, I am exclusively working remotely.

Google Workspace

After working with Google cloud services for some years, I have confidently integrated these tools into my workflow.

A central knowledge base

For me it is important to have a central knowledge base to keep everyone on the same page. I’ve had good experiences with Notion.

Home in the Apple Ecosystem

Performance, simplicity and design have always made me love Apple devices and operating systems for supporting my creativity and productivity.

Core Capabilities

Focused, yet versatile.

User Research

Prior to concept and design, a deep understanding of users in a specific context as well as involved stakeholders build the foundation. Iterative User Research and concept validation when designing are also an integral part of the process and ensure product success.

Strategic Thinking

A strong concept lies at the core of every functioning digital product. Idea, information architecture, user flows and psychology need to be carefully thought through and tested to ensure that the following high-fidelity interface can be designed effectively.

Interface Design & Handoff

An appealing UI may not be the core of a digital product, but it is of high importance still. Aestetically pleasing interfaces are more engaging, make the interaction more fun, serves functional purposes and represents a brand by applying corporate design guidelines.

Prototyping

Prototyping user flows is helpful in many stages of product development. In early stages it helps to communicate and validate concepts and before developing and app or website, it helps to finally verify if all needs are met and the result is satisfactory.

Figma

Lightweight, collaborative, feature-rich and versatile – Figma is my tool of choice when it comes to daily interface design. Components, variants, auto-lauyouts and plugins enable me to create consistent and scalable designs which are ready for developer-handoff.

Webflow

For me as a designer, Webflow is ideal to realize websites in a lean process and cost-efficient. With its no-code approach, Webflow is ideal for Landingpages, Microsites and even simple CMS-managed blogs and webshops.

Framer

Framer as a design tool has been around for a long time, but recently I am more and more discovering this tool as a promising opportunity to create simple and beautiful websites.

Resources

Helpful and interesting stuff on the internet.

Reading List

Design Resources

Humane by Design

A resource that provides guidance for designing ethically humane digital products through patterns focused on user well-being.

Remix Icons

Remix Icon is a set of open-source neutral-style system symbols elaborately crafted for designers and developers.

Laws of UX

Laws of UX is a collection of best practices that designers can consider when building user interfaces.

Tabler Icons

1298 Fully customizable free SVG icons.

Design Principles

An open source collection of Design Principles and methods.

Human Interface Guidelines

Get in-depth information and UI resources for designing great apps that integrate seamlessly with Apple platforms.

Degreeless Design

All Resources to become a self-taught Designer.

Carbon Design System

Carbon is IBM’s open source design system for products and digital experiences.

Designing Mindfulness

How to make technology which takes care of the people who use it.

Mobbin Design

A library of 50,000+ fully searchable mobile app screenshots.

Calm Technology

Our world is made of information that competes for our attention.
What is necessary? What is not?

Evernote Design

An extensive collection of Design Resources of all kinds.