Dr. Christiane Moser

I was born in Salzburg on 5 June 1983 and have a deep connection with this city. I went to school in Salzburg, studied here, and then worked successfully in research for 10 years. In February 2018, I took the big step into self-employment (freelancing) and founded my own company CUXpro. As a Customer & User Experience Professional, I work with SMEs worldwide on (re)designing digital products.

I was already fascinated by the topic of human-computer interaction during my applied computer science studies. After my studies, I was able to apply and deepen my knowledge in research at the Center for Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Salzburg for 10 years.

My passion has always been to create user-friendly digital systems together with developers and users. Therefore, I have focused my research on user research, especially on requirements analysis, co-design and evaluation.

My Journey to CUXpro

CUXpro

Foundation of my Company (2018)

I founded my company to pass on my many years of knowledge to SMEs through consultancy and training.
Since then I have also been involved as UX mentor and teacher.

User Research

Center for HCI (opens in a new tab) of the University of Salzburg (opens in a new tab) (2008-2017)

During this time I have worked intensively on the topic of UX through user research (in basic and industry projects).
My research is internationally recognised with an h-index of 17.
In my dissertation I worked out a new development approach
“CCGD: Child-Centered Game Development”.

Applied Computer Science Studies

Focus Human-Computer Interaction (2002-2007)

Programming at university was exciting but I was more fascinated by the focus on HCI at the University of Salzburg (opens in a new tab).
In my master thesis I developed a “Web 2.0 Interaction Paradigm”.
In my bachelor thesis I researched “Tangible Computer Interaction”.

Commercial High School

Focus Business Informatics (1997 - 2002)

Already in my school days I was fascinated by computers and the interaction with them.
Here I gained my first programming skills and an interest in interacting with computer technologies was awakened.
In my high school thesis, we created a learning software called
“Learning English Grammar Bit-by-Bit”.

Experience

18Years

17h-INDEX

UX Skills

UX Strategist
UX Research
UX Design
UX Engineer
UX Mentor

PD Skills

Product Vision
Product Strategy
Product Discovery
Product Breakdown

Tools

FIGMA
Adobe XD
UXtweak
Claude
ChatGPT
Perplexity
Gemini
Photoshop
Indesign
Illustrator

My Work Experiences

UX Researcher, UX Designer, UX Engineer, UX Strategist, etc.

03/2018 - now

CUXpro

15 industry projects (3 months to 2 years)
In all projects I successfully applied my agile development approach, the *X Experience-centered Cycle.

UX Design Lecturer & Mentor

04/2022 - 01/2024

Talent Garden (opens in a new tab)

In a 3-month UX Design Bootcamp I taught the modules UX Basics, UX Management and UX Portfolio.
In mentoring sessions I supported the participants with their personal project or during their work on the portfolios.

UX Design Mentor

03/2021 - now

ADPList (opens in a new tab)

In 30-minute calls, I do portfolio reviews, answer questions or help with problems.
This is one of my contributions to the UX community, sharing my knowledge for free.

UX Design Mentor

10/2018 - 04/2025

CareerFoundry (opens in a new tab)

In weekly calls, I accompanied my mentees through their 4 month UX portfolio project.
After completing one phase in their UX design process, I reviewed the progress and provided feedback.

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

08/2015 - 09/2017

Center for HCI (opens in a new tab), University of Salzburg (opens in a new tab), I have worked on the following projects

GeTVivid (07/2013 - 06/2016)
Tasks: grant application, project management, user research
ActiBrains (01/2015 - 12/2016)
Tasks: grant application, user research

Research Fellow

02/2008 - 07/2015

Center for HCI (opens in a new tab), University of Salzburg (opens in a new tab), I have worked on the following projects

GeTVivid (07/2013 - 06/2016)
Tasks: grant application, project management, user research
ActiBrains (01/2015 - 12/2016)
Tasks: grant application, user research
AIR - Advanced Interface Research (07/2010 - 06/2013)
Tasks: project management, user research
Customer Experience Innovation Lab (06/2010 - 10/2010)
Tasks: user research
Games4School (06/2010 - 03/2012)
Tasks: grant application, project management, user research
Task efficiency study with Blackberry (01/2010 - 06/2010)
Tasks: user research
CITIZEN MEDIA (02/2008 - 05/2009)
Tasks: user research