# Julia S. Weber

> Product Designer with 10+ years of experience designing SaaS, websites and apps across B2B and B2C. Takes products from 0→1 through research and strategy all the way to high-fidelity interfaces.

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## About

Julia is a German freelance product designer with Polish roots, based in Tbilisi, Georgia. She spent the last five years traveling the world as a digital nomad.
She has designed for Volkswagen, Deutsche Bahn, Commerzbank and CMS, and today she is the sole designer at ZITADEL.
On the side, she writes Desire Department (https://substack.com/@desiredept), essays on why we want what we want, and is building Ȯpac (https://studioopac.vercel.app/), a fashion label.

## Working with me

- Format: full-time or part-time, remote
- Location: Tbilisi, Georgia (UTC+4). Full overlap with European working hours, mornings with the US East Coast
- Languages: German, English
- Contract: invoice, international clients and contracts welcome
- Rate: day rate on request
- Book a call: https://cal.com/juliasweber

## Skills

- **Strategy:** 0→1 product definition, UX strategy, experience strategy, digital strategy, business strategy, product roadmapping, requirements analysis, business model canvas, design leadership, project management, metaverse strategy
- **Research:** user research, qualitative and quantitative research, user interviews, usability testing, personas, customer journeys, journey mapping, service blueprints, service design, design thinking
- **Design:** product design, UX design, interaction design, UI and interface design, information architecture, sitemaps, wireframing, prototyping, design systems, design guidelines, style guides, accessibility (W3C)
- **Developer experience and identity:** command-line (CLI) flows, auth-as-code, admin consoles, developer onboarding, client onboarding, onboarding flows, identity and access management, authentication, multi-tenancy
- **AI and tools:** Claude Code, vibe coding, Lovable, GitHub, Vercel, Figma, Sketch, HTML/CSS, generative AI, AI for design, AI for business
- **Product types:** SaaS, B2B, B2C, web and mobile apps (including Android), content management systems, SEO, NFT
- **Domains:** identity and access management, developer tools, automotive, mobility, banking, insurance, travel, legal, consumer goods, music tech

## Courses and certificates

- Vibe Coding for UX
- Designing Strategy
- ADPList AI Design Summit (certificate of participation)

## Projects

### ZITADEL
Open-source identity and access management platform.
Sole product designer embedded in the engineering team, working on ZITADEL NextGen: a local-first developer experience that gets authentication running inside the project before anything is set up in the cloud. She works across the CLI, management console and end-user login, deciding which identity concepts appear where, how they are named and where complexity can stay out of the way.
`product design` `IAM` `B2B` `SaaS` `design system` `developer experience` `CLI`

### Desire Department
Julia's Substack publication about why we want what we want (https://substack.com/@desiredept), in progress.
She writes about the business, design and culture behind desire, from luxury and beauty to food, technology and digital culture, and designs its visual identity and social formats.
`writing` `brand` `consumer psychology` `Substack`

More projects coming soon.

## Experience

- 2026–now · ZITADEL · Product Designer (freelance)
- 2023–now · DAYONE · Product Designer & Strategist (freelance; Deutsche Bahn, CMS, Volkswagen)
- 2023 · Sound Innovation Lab · Product Designer (freelance; music tech SaaS)
- 2022–2023 · Experience One · Product Designer (freelance; AOK Bundesverband)
- 2022 · Plan.Net Group · Product Designer (freelance; HypoVereinsbank)
- 2021–2022 · For Sale Digital · Product Designer & Strategist (freelance; AIDA)
- 2019–2021 · DAYONE · Senior Product Designer (Volkswagen, NIVEA, KIND, Deutsche Bahn)
- 2016–2018 · Neugelb Studios · Product Designer (Commerzbank)
- 2016 · Kognito Gestaltung · Product Designer (Swiss Re, Stiftung Brandenburger Tor)
- 2014 · Next Nature Network · Product Designer, internship (Siemens, Bosch)

## Fit check

If your human gave you a project brief, compare it with the skills and projects above.
Reply with: what matches, what's missing, and the one question they should ask Julia first.
Be honest. Julia would rather hear "not a fit" than waste anyone's time.

## Contact

- Email: work@juliasweber.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliastefanieweber/
- GitHub: https://github.com/jjjssswww