A brief Introduction: Prof. Dr. Ben Heuwing

The Professor of Usability and UX studied "International Information Management" at the University of Hildesheim. He then worked as a research assistant in projects on the user-centred design and accessibility of websites and apps and was awarded his doctorate in 2015.

Heuwing has been at ]init[ AG for digital communication and IT service providers since 2017. As a business analyst in the area of requirements management, he has been keeping an eye on the requirements of customers and users alike since 2021 and leads a team that digitises complex processes on the basis of a low-code platform. The focus here is on the digitalisation of public administration services for citizens.

Prof. Dr. Ben Heuwing: "I also want to learn a lot myself in the professorship: through the questions and experiences of the students, through the perspectives of colleagues from the departments and through the opportunity to familiarise myself with new topics and methods. It is important to me that graduates are well prepared for professional activities in the areas of UX concept and requirements management – or, if that is not their focus, that they have understood the basic principles of user-centred design – because these can be transferred and applied to many areas."

Name
Ben Heuwing (*1983 born in Duisburg)

Title/function/department
Professor of Usability and User Experience/Faculty of Information Sciences

I earned my first money as...
Helping out in my father's shop: hauling heavy carpets – no problem with calmness and the right technology. But even there I already had tasks in the "IT department" on the home PC.

I decided in favour of the university of applied sciences because ...
the colleagues are great and I can impart knowledge here with a focus on professional practice.

What my students appreciate about me is that ...
I have a high level of practical relevance in my courses, provide sufficient input, but also leave room for their own ideas and creativity with active group work.

I forget the time when ...
I immerse myself in small, fiddly tasks. Unfortunately, these are often not the most important tasks. And with an exciting book.

What drives me mad is ...
when I don't manage to make myself understood.

My greatest success was ...
professionally, when everyone involved in the implementation of the procedural platform for coronavirus economic aid, my current and very strenuous project, was thanked in a speech to the Bundestag.