Johannes Ippen

Johannes Ippen is a designer and author from Berlin who runs Human Deluxe, an experience design studio and consultancy focusing on human-brand relations. Before that he was responsible for product marketing at the mobile games developer Wooga, creator of games such as Jelly Splash, Pearl’s Peril and Diamond Dash. As founder of the Thanksalot Design Collective he launched products including Aside Magazine, MagazineGrid and Graphical Cooking. He has written four books on digital product design and development, published by Rheinwerk Verlag, and teaches UX design and information architecture at Design Akademie Berlin.

In his TED talk “Humans, not Users: Why UX is a Problem” (2019), Johannes Ippen questions the idea of thinking about people as users, touching on brand, empathy, experience design and happiness.