Henrik Schmidt

I grew up in a working-class home in Germany and have always wanted to build things that work in the real world, from childhood projects to the systems I ship today. Mechanical engineering was the natural first step.

As AI became central to how products are built and experienced, I moved into robotics and intelligent systems for my master's at TUM, supported by BMW's Scholarship program. As every system adds complexity, I found myself building more and more UI/UX to support understanding and control. I became a product-minded visionary, bringing designers, engineers, and stakeholders together around a concrete direction.

Today I work where design meets implementation: embedded and in-car contexts, design-system-aligned tooling in Figma, and AI-assisted workflows.I lead a small engineering team building prototyping platforms and internal tools for UX and UI designers.

I'm not just a designer, not just a software engineer, and not a pure coordinator. I use design, code, and facilitation every week, but none of those labels alone captures what I actually do.

I work more like a product-minded visionary: I dig into the problem, the target users, and what success should look like; I bring designers, engineers, and stakeholders together around a concrete direction; and I stay close enough to the work that the vision turns into shipped outcomes, not handoffs or endless alignment for its own sake. The direction is one I drive clearly, then refine with the team as we learn.