Ciao, sono Jonas.

Who am I

As a nerdy kid who was really into video games it was always obvious for me to I would end up in IT. So that's what I did right after finishing school I started a three-year apprenticeship as a software developer. That was quite a while ago so we were still using PHP and had to guarantee compatibility for IE6! Difficult times... While I loved solving difficult challenges, the logical and analytic work, and seeing what I developed being used by actual users I felt like there often was a disconnect between our work and the user. How do we know if what we are building is actually helping the day-to-day of our target audience? Because a bunch of higher-ups approved it and the 800-page documentation said so? This never made much sense to me. After my apprenticeship, I decided that I need to broaden my horizon and find if there is something out there that better suits me. And there was! During my bachelor's in business IT, I found out about the field of user experience and that the things I was questioning during my work as a developer are being answered by UX professionals. With that, I found a career that combines all of the different aspects I love about IT and development. I was thrilled! After my bachelor's I saw that Munich's LMU offers a specialized human-computer interaction master's program that would bring me closer to my newfound goal to becoming a UX professional. I finished the program in September 2020 and I loved every second of it.