About me

Antje Kruse-Schomaker is Executive Design Director at IBM's digital agency iX, where she leads the Experience Design & Mobile Practice in DACH (Germany, Austria, Switzerland).

For more than 25 years, she has been involved in the interplay of design, technology and business challenges. Since then, Antje has accompanied numerous clients on their digital transformation journey.

Antje is an enthusiast for humanizing technology and driving business by design incorporating new technologies such as AI, XR and Blockchain. She has guided, coached, taught and certified hundreds of IBM employees, university students and clients to practice and apply design thinking and service design.

Her work has been recognized with international design awards such as the iF Design Award and the Red Dot Design Award. She has been part of the Jury for "Digital Craft" in Cannes 2021 and "Digital Design" for the D&AD Awards 2022.

Antje is a trained designer, business consultant and part of the global IBM Design Leadership Team. She has long been interested in the interplay between design, technology and business challenges. She works with clients in different industries and leads multidisciplinary teams in the development of innovative solutions. She has won several international design awards for her work. As a design thinking leader, she helps companies transform their organisation and way of working in a user-centred way.

Skills

design thinkig, Experience Design, Interactive Design, service design, Textile Design, UX/UI

Sector Experience

Automotive, Banking, Chemical, Healthcare, industrial, Insurance

Awards

iF Design Awards, Red Dot Award - Red Dot Award

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#11 Ranked Design Director
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Antje Kruse-Schomaker has been a Contributor since 25th November 2015.

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Location
Hamburg, Germany
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Languages
German, English
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