Pia Lettenbauer from Germany 🇩🇪 became a Design Lead at DigiOutsource in Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦

GRAPHIC TO UX

Pia Lettenbauer

What’s your career background?

Graphic design

What interested you about UX? 

To get to know and understand the user better and expand my skills in general.

What did you like about Valentin as being your UX mentor? 

Having Valentin as my mentor helped me a lot in understanding how everything works in “real life”. He has great insights and the design process he introduced is easy to understand and to follow and made me feel ready to take on any design challenge and also implement it at work directly.

Did Valentin help you to get a UX role? 

The side project I was working on with Valentin and his advice, played a significant role in getting my promotion as a design lead.

Would you recommend Valentin as a mentor to others? 

Yes absolutely! Always very helpful, great insights, easy approachable, encouraging and very friendly and fun to talk to.