Internship
hands-on experience
Timefonds AG is a start-up offering a time value account service for employers. The innovation: even small and medium-sized companies can provide their employees with time value accounts, as Timefonds manages the entire organisational framework. The service includes a desktop application for HR departments to manage all employee accounts, and a mobile app that enables staff to manage their own accounts and personal savings goals.
During my internship, I worked in Figma on both conceptual and visual design tasks. I prepared existing functions for developers, designed and implemented new service features, and created a style guide based on the atomic design principle.
Weekly meetings with CEO Colin Altmeyer and project manager Elisa Schmidt provided insight into the workflows of interdisciplinary teams collaborating on an active, real-world product.
summer 2024
An interesting challenge was the combination of desktop and app design. The desktop version is intended for HR departments in companies offering time value accounts, which requires a very different approach to interaction design than the app. The app is designed for employees’ personal use, giving them an overview of their own time value account. Both components of the service, however, had to work seamlessly together. I found the interfaces between them particularly engaging: for example, how does the HR console handle a termination case compared to the app? I was closely involved in such UI/UX operations.
My supervisor during the internship was Benedikt Burgmeier, who placed great value on participatory guidance and effective macro-management. This allowed me to develop creative ideas while ensuring that my work was realistically implemented within the project framework. I greatly appreciated this way of working together.
