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Design, Product & Strategy Lead at @LinearityHQ → |  WWDC Scholarship Winner 2015 & 2017

Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪
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4 months
DID SOMEONE SAY MERCHANDISE? 🧡 If you‘re in town for #WWDC , come find me for some exclusive @linearityhq swag! Special gifts for those who‘ve tried Linearity Move or subscribed to Linearity Pro! #WWDC24 #WWDC2024
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In a German supermarket 🇩🇪 Me: Hello, I pay contactless Cashier: With Card? Me: With the Watch C: Watch? It’s 1:15 PM Me: No, to meant I’m gonna pay using my watch C: What do you mean by “paying with your Watch”? Me: Turn on the card terminal Her: *turns on* Me: *pays* Her: 🤯
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Story of my life
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@MKBHD When Marques literally drives the "so I've been testing this newly released product for a month now" meme himself 😂
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*REWE* Ich: “Zahle mit  Pay” Kassierer: “Wat?” Ich: “Karte” … Ba-Bing! … Kassierer: “Ah, Handydings! Sag das doch nächstes Mal gleich!” Wir haben noch einen langen Weg vor uns, aber wir schreiten jeden Tag ein paar Meter voran #Handydings
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4 years
Wer sich weigert die #CoronaWarnApp zu installieren hat zwar keine Konsequenzen zu befürchten, verhält sich damit aber höchst asozial. Sie als #Staatstrojaner zu bezeichnen ist hirnverbrannt. Der Code ist öffentlich einsehbar. Die App kennt nichtmal euren Namen oder die Location
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Apple  streamt gerade öffentlich das leere Steve Jobs Theater aus verschiedenen Winkeln. Und ich glaube nicht, dass das Absicht ist…
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Some impressions from Infinite Loop #WWDC
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the myth, the legend, the one and only Phil Schiller! #WWDC24
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He really wanted to take pictures with me... Those fanboys... @alextv
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Time for #WWDC registration at Infinite Loop!
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i also found @gregjoz ! #WWDC24
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APPLE PAY IN GERMANYYYYYYYYYYY 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
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1 year
I‘ll be in town for #WWDC23 , tho sadly without a ticket this time. Who else will be around? Would love to connect and see some familiar and new faces again! ☺️ #WWDCScholars
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6 months
Yay! So who will I see at #WWDC24 ? 😄👋
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4 years
Wenn ich sehe was für Vollidioten jetzt schon wieder die nächste Verschwörungstheorie ausgraben, aber munter weiter Ihren Facebook Account und damit Bilder Ihrer Kinder mit Standort mit Clash Of Clans teilen um 65 Goldmünzen zu erhalten, schürt sich in mir richtiger Hass zu.
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Super excited to announce that today I’m joining the @MercedesBenz User Experience Team as intern, working on the next generation of MBUX, Mercedes-Benz in-car User Experience!
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I’ve just been on the phone with the App Review team regarding the Emoji issue. Apps are NO LONGER ALLOWED TO USE EMOJI in non-keyboard based situations. Means if your app displays emoji anywhere without a user having it typed in, it’s illegal and will be rejected.
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It’s official. Using emojis is forbidden. Meanwhile Instagram & Yubo just pushed their latest update with this and it apparently was no problem.
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More pics from Apple Park…. and now a bit of relaxation at the pond (but where are the 🦆 today?)
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Hello, San Francisco! 👋 #WWDC2024
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Apple Pay for Germany? #WWDC #WWDC18
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7 years
Now look who apparently was in the newspaper yesterday!
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5 years
Die Politik will einen deutschen Weltraumbahnhof zur Förderung der Industrie prüfen. Die Weltraumtechnik wäre kein Problem, nur der Bahnhof wird in Deutschland sicher zum Problem. #Weltraumbahnhof
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@MKBHD I mean it wouldn't have surprised me if you had driven a #cybertruck for a couple of weeks already haha
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First #WWDC meetup 🙌
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Day 2 of #WWDC24 kicks off with a session at the Apple Developer Center!
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Werde das im übrigen sehr gerne genau in dem Wortlaut jedem entgegnen der mir persönlich mit solchen Theorien ankommt. Jeder kann persönlich einen Beitrag dazu leisten schneller zu einem normalen Leben wieder zurückzukehren. Wer dagegen arbeitet, dem sind Grundrechte sowieso egal
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Good morning from Apple Park! The dubdub excitement is real, and everyone I‘ve talked to agrees that this feels like a big one. Can’t wait for the keynote! #WWDC
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Closing off #WWDC with the @SwiftLang community social. And the best T shirt award goes to @TimirahJ !
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Bachelor in Interaction Design 🎓✅🙌🎉
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7 years
Können wir einmal bitte kurz festhalten, dass @frank_thelen bei der INTHIM-Produktpräsentation bei weitem den besten Blick hatte? 😂 #DHDL
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Today @paul_reichardt and I signed the founding documents of @agenZystudio . We’re now officially incorporated and I fulfilled my long-awaited dream of founding my own business with 18 years of age with the probably best co founder I could imagine. Let’s rock this! 🎉🚀
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Gast aus dem Ausland (hat logischerweise keine girocard) sendet mir gerade dieses Bild und fragt mich, ob er jetzt ernsthaft 80€ für paar Tage parken in 2€-M��nzen da reinwerfen soll 😂 Ohne Witz, es ist so traurig und unterhaltsam zugleich 😂
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#WWDC23 ✈️
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Eine Kassiererin meines lokalen Edeka hat mich gerade in der Bahn angesprochen und gefragt ob ich nicht der bin der “immer mit dem Ührle (Uhr) zahlt” und wie ich das denn mache, sie fände das “hat ja scho bissle was von Magie”. Jetzt ist sie (Apple) Pay-Expertin…😂⌚️
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ML and AI are not the same. ML and AI are not the same. ML and AI are not the same. ML and AI are not the same. ML and AI are not the same. ML and AI are not the same. ML and AI are not the same. ML and AI are not the same. ML and AI are not the same. ML and AI are not the same.
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Fun fact: I will turn 18 while I’ll be in the US at F8 and I have a long list of things to do then. 😅🙌🎉
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I MADE IT! #WWDCScholars
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Bin schon ein wenig davon erschrocken, wie wenig Influencer ihre Reichweite aktuell für etwas sinnvolles einsetzen… Umso mehr probs für die, die es tun! #corona
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@Tesla Hey Berlin artists! We’re also looking for someone to help cover this wall in our Berlin office in cool art (not only graffiti!)
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Seems like I’m now @verified ! 😍👏🔥😮
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To be honest: I expected it. Wish everyone who received a WWDC Scholarship a lot of fun in San Jose! #WWDCScholars
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And off we go! #WWDC , here we come. And I got the suitcase full with @linearityhq merch! 🔜 San Francisco
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Google Pay is live in Germany – Does that mean we might see Apple Pay come around soon? 😍
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4 years
Excited to announce I’m joining @vectornator as Product Design Analyst 🎉 Moving to Berlin soon!
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7 years
We found Apple’s Crack Product Marketing team in their VW Minibus! 🚌
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4 years
The camera on the iPhone 12 Pro is without a doubt just ridiculously good. All photos untouched - Seems like the desert is the perfect photo subject for the iPhone
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@MKBHD Seems like Marques is part of the Area 51 conspiracy- he knows everything!
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The iOS 12 beta is so freaking impressive. So stable, fast etc. Better performance than on iOS 11.4 This feels like a snow leopard update
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And Germany! 🇩🇪 Just kidding, of course not…
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It’s  Keynote day! #WWDC2020
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App Store Review just rejected the Binary of the newest version of @getBittracker because we use emoji in the app and therefore apparently broke copyright rules. Yep, that’s true. We’re talking about emojis in screenshots, but more importantly also within the app as raw text.
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Lautstärke hoch und man hört die A/C, CC @timohetzel
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seems like i’m officially 20 now 🎉
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Whooo interesting #iOS13
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Working with a view in Italy 🇮🇹
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@Tesla My god. I love you, new Twitter person.
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@Casey Yo Casey. I work on the Mercedes Benz User Experience team. Try MBUX in the new A class and see for yourself that the Germans can do it better ;)
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Absolutely thrilled to announce @facebook has awarded me a Scholarship to their annual Developers Conference F8! So blown away!! 😍😍✈️✈️
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To round off the day, we‘re enjoying some presentations by #SwiftStudentChallenge winners. Everyone gets 3 minutes to show off the project that got them out to California. Very exciting to see all these amazing ideas by a group of very outstanding smart minds! #WWDC #WWDCScholars
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Just got word that I will spend my 6th semester studying in Shanghai and I couldn’t be more excited about it! 🇨🇳 😍😍😍🎉🎉🎉🚀🚀🚀
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A 3 minute App Review Time, total from submitting until accepted was 40 mins. I’m impressed, @AppStore Team!
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Facebook gave me a birthday present! Free Oculus Go!
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It’s official. Using emojis is forbidden. Meanwhile Instagram & Yubo just pushed their latest update with this and it apparently was no problem.
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App Store Review just rejected the Binary of the newest version of @getBittracker because we use emoji in the app and therefore apparently broke copyright rules. Yep, that’s true. We’re talking about emojis in screenshots, but more importantly also within the app as raw text.
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If you won a #WWDC Scholarship, you achieved something only 0,00000476% of the human population did. Be proud of yourself! #WWDCScholars
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My Slack Socks (& Stickers) arrived! ❤️😍 @SlackHQ is one of my favorite companies (& products) by far! Love you guys ❤️❤️🚀🚀
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In less than a week I will begin my travel to Apple’s #WWDC17 where I will learn about the future of tech and meet a ton of awesome people!😊
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One of my favorite days of the year is when Apple releases the winners of the #SwiftStudentChallenge . You always get to see incredibly bright minds, very cool submission projects and tons of positivity within the community. Congrats, #WWDCScholars ! And safe travels to Cupertino!
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See that name there? SEE THAT NAME THERE? SEE THAT NAME THERE! That’s my name! FINALLY!
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Just met Ministerpräsident Winfried Kretschmann at #StartUpGipfel #BW What a good start of the day!
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Are there any icon designers familiar with SF Symbols around here? Or does anyone know someone looking for a gig? Pls DM me!
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German streets right now #ApplePay #Germany #ApplePayGermany 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🎉🎉🎉
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AI at it’s best
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Hello, Berlin! 👋
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I just won free flights to Berlin on the day of German Reunification (Oct 3)! How cool is that? 😍🎉✈️
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So I temporarily lost my AirPods and I switched to EarPods as a replacement. Only took me 30 seconds until the cables were pissing me off so much that I just decided to not listen to music anymore. Luckily I found my AirPods again. The universe is back in its standard formation.
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Google demonstrating their translation features with a wrong translation of the word “German”. Should be “Deutsch” without that additional “e”. #io19 Kannste dir nicht ausdenken…
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Running gags in Germany: -Apple Pay -BER
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OpenMoji is now live on Emojipedia!
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🆕 OpenMoji: a free and open source emoji library available with a Creative Commons (Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International) license. Now showing on Emojipedia 🔍 🎨 📋 💖 📱
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@wendoverpro Bring in fans (me!) to do the challenges and travels and call it Team Jetlag while you slurp mojitos on the phone judging the moves
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BITTRACKER IS NOW ON THE APP STORE! If you’re into Bitcoin in any way, you’ll need this app, you’ll want this app and you’ll love this app! GIVEAWAY! LIKE ❤️ + RETWEET 🔁 THIS TWEET FOR A CHANCE TO WIN A PROMO CODE! Ends Dec 12, 12 PM GMT. Good luck!🍀
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Glad to see @vectornator in the #AppleEvent Keynote today ☺️
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Little joke before #WWDC18 gets started: Apple Pay for Germany 🇩🇪 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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Chillin’ with bae ❤️📱
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Vaccinated 💉✅❤️
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WWDC Application Progress: Essays: ✅ Idea: Kind of awesome Tech: In the works, about 20% done. Yeah, I do Essays in the beginning because that’s when you still have an organized mind and time to write something inspiring.
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The runner in today's pre-Keynote Video seems to have been new to Apple Park… #AppleEvent And yes, I just built this using Markdown.
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Liebe LinkedIn-Recruiter, nur weil in meinem Profil steht, dass ich Java mal ausprobiert habe bedeutet das nicht, dass ich bei eurem Kunden als Senior Java Developer einsteigen will. Vor allem dann nicht, wenn ich mit @agenZystudio beschäftigt bin und nebenbei auch noch studiere
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Got verified on Instagram a few days ago 😍
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Beautiful. Series 4 is fun!
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3 years
The new #AppleMaps are a masterpiece of great interaction design. My upmost respect to the entire team!
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My first Apple Pay purchase 😊 Cashier when I asked wether they have contactless payment: “With a phone?! For sure not!” Me: Let me try, I’m sure it’ll work *works* Cashier: 😮🤯
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Just met Ex-Bundestagspräsident Norbert Lammert at the airport!
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I led a workshop on ARKit and Swift in my university today. Would love to show you some of the projects my students built.
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POV: @heylaurengrimm still has your Wallet pass from #WWDC 2017 on her phone 🤯
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