Welcome to myCordt
Design that works
Tell Me More

Services

Based on thirty years of experience as a designer and consultant.

Design Thinking

Empower your organization and its individuals to better understand their competitive and operational environment.

User Centric Design

Understand the people you are trying to reach, and then design from their perspective to create highly usable and accessible products.

Design Sprints

Get people aligned around new ideas, create more ownership and build products that add value in a short time frame.

Empathy Mapping

Understand what you know about a particular type of user to create a shared understanding and aid in decision making.

Customer Journey Mapping

Address customer needs and pain points for the process a person goes through in order to accomplish a goal tied to a product.

Service Blueprinting

Visualize the relationships between service components and processes — the touchpoints in a specific customer journey.

Personas

Look beyond demographics and create fictional characters that represent the different user types that might use your service or product in a similar way.

User Stories

Define: The [user] wants [function] to achieve the goal of [user goal]. Keeping the business in mind.This results in a Job-To-Be-Done.

UX Measurement

Usability must be be effective, efficient and satisfying. This can and should be measurend to ensure UX-ROI.

Usability

Be clear, accessible, credible and consistent with your content. Always focus on the user! Observe, test and optimize for a smoother interaction.

Interface Design

Understanding and enabling the user to perform a task or solve a problem. Creating a friendly and simple human-computer-interface (HCI).

Team Management

Organization, administration and colloboration of functional interdisciplinary and international design- and development teams.

Cross Media Strategy

A logo must work on your business card, your company brochure, on car stickers, your newsletter and on your website.

Visualizing Information

Don't increase the amount of information and data you consume. Find out what is really important and focus on that.

Web Consulting

Questions about your website? Images, icons, headlines, copy, resolution, accessibility, usability, CMS, SEO?

Typography

Influenced by the Bauhaus and the New Typography, I believe that good typography is essential for all digital and printed media.

Web Analytics

Tracking statistics should help you interprete your data in a understandable way to improve your site and maximize results.

User Testing

Observe the user. Watch, measure and and learn using different methods. This will eventually lead to an accepted and useful product.

Portfolio

Skills and Experience.

Website wireframe

Wireframing

Provide a visual understanding at an early stage to get stakeholder and project team approval before the creative phase gets under way.

Professional unser interface

UX/UI

Understand the user and the product. Develop and constantly improve the interaction and the experience.

Mobile device

Mobile App Design

Extensive research, initial sketches, wireframes and user testing. Optimizing the user flow. A good mobile app must be easy to use and work in all situations.

Laptop with SEO results

Search Engine Optimization

Many years of SEO and SEA experience. Realistic on-, off-page and keyword optimization and strategies. Planning, implementation and analytics.

Web design

Web Design

HTML, CSS and scripting according to syntax rules and strict standards. Accessible, adaptive and responsive.

Page showing corprate design specifications

Corporate Design

A working corporate design should be a seamless integration of a official graphic design for all media. Logo, typography, colors and other elements should be consistent on all media.

Printed photos on a table

Semi-Professional Photography

Started in the nineteen eighties with traditional b/w with light meter and darkroom. Now working with full-frame digital SLR and iPhone. Professional editing with Photoshop and Lightroom.

Laptop with a project plan

Online Project Management

Large online projects require a steady planning, organizing, motivating, and controlling of resources, procedures and protocols. Fulfilment in time and money. Great interest in mapping web sites.

Handwriting on a flipchart

Website Consulting

A website is a sensitive element of your business and private life. It should be planned well and monitored to meet the changing needs of todays world.

History

Important stages and development.

  • 2015-2025

    UX and UI

    Using the years of experience to concept, structure and design accessible web pages, SaaS and mobile apps with a high user acceptance.

  • 2007-2015

    Selling over the Web

    Worked on some highly frequented international online shops. Optimizing design, usability, performance and conversion rate.

  • 2002-2006

    Serious Internet Pages

    Helped to set up "big data"" websites with over 100 k pages for government and institutions. Lot's of information and clever information architecture.

  • 1997-2001

    The dawn of the World Wide Web

    Started with NCSA Mosaic on Unix. Hand coded one of the first pages with frames in Germany. Used native HTML and CSS long before WYSIWYG editors.

  • 1991-1996

    Multimedia & CD-ROMs

    Designing and coding with Macromedia Director. Pushed the tool to its limits by simulating visual databases. Used for multimedia CD-ROMs and Kiosk systems.

  • It's been
    a long
    way!

    Project overview

    Extensive list of all major projects.



    Certificates

    Skills and courses I have mastered.

About

I like things that work.

Cordt Rott

Senior UX/UI Designer / Dipl. Designer / Qualified Graphic Designer / Master of Arts

A lot of people have great ideas -
those who make them come true, make the difference.

Co-Art

Digital multi-layer-images I do as a hobby. Reload this page for different random images.