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YNAB-Anschreiben (Was will ich? (want to keep learning (communication,…

- - - - YNAB4 is still good enough for me
      - as many Germans, I'm wary of cloud-only services managing my financial data
      - as a YNABer, the decision to keep YNAB4 is also a financial one: one-time payment vs. monthly bills
      - -> I would very much like to participate in making YNAB a product that is both interesting for the data-security-minded and (sparsamen) German, and the organization that is trying to make money with it.
- - - - leading the UX activities in a development project
        
        comfortable with all phases of human/user-centered design cycle (research, analyze, prototype, test)
        
        created almost all stages of prototype maturity (scribbles, paper prototypes, clickable lo-fi prototypes)
        
        pixel-perfect visual design is out of my scope right now - in my projects, we typically work with visual design agencies and I know how to interface to them to get a good working mode going
      - ask uncomfortable questions concerning vision clarity, user and business value, and try to answer them & convey the vision to the dev team
        
        mindset used to be "customer has money and a difficult technical problem, so we take the money and solve the problem"
        
        mindset slowly changes to "customer doesn't really understand the problem and thinks it's technical, but very often, it's not. We need to be on eye-level with the customer to address this" (= unknown unknowns)
        
        often, our customers' problems are not on the tech level, but on an organizational level
      - Hamburg location is quite small, so we're often working in distributed teams
    - - interface role between the PO (often pure business side, carrier of the product vision, limited dev experience) and the dev team (development side, implementation of the vision)
      - actively push the implementation of that role in our projects
        
        conference talks, mentoring, internal community work
    - - we are distributed and UX is quite new to the 50yo organization, so evangelizing/spreading the user-centered mindset is important
    - - flagship project
      - prepared for several months, defined initial roles, responsibilities, communication channels
      - we're live since January
      - working out great so far
        
        our understanding of the business grows
        
        we feel the responsibility and act accordingly
        
        feels empowering, the changes and insights we gather (strahlen) back into the organization
        
        great colleagues!
    - - mentoring for younger colleagues
      - camp: fish bowl moderation
      - UX ethics
      - distributed developmentZ
      - introvertsZ
      - diversityZ
  - - - I understand the SW dev world and culture
      - I like to tinker myself every now and then (code, woodworking, ...)
  - - - it's all eventually being used by humans!
      - devs often forget that point over technical issues
    - - one at HFI in London
        
        while at Bosch
        
        2 weeks, in my vacation, paid for it myself
      - one at Artop Institute (Humboldt University, Berlin)
        
        as part of my onboarding at Z
        
        went over a year
        
        very intensive!
- - - - I've reaped the benefits of achieving financial peace of mind by clarity and budgeting
      - I'm very convinced of the product and the concepts behind it
        
        it's the only product I actively recommend/rave about to friends and colleagues
      - I have read again and again about the YNAB company culture and it looks promising from the outside looking in