Portrait of Niko Mang

About

I came to design through project management. At Milla & Partner I organised brand spaces and exhibitions, and I learned what a design costs before anyone builds it.

Studying interaction design at HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd kept pulling me towards health: a skin scanner tested with real patients, and a bachelor thesis on the handover between teledermatology and the practice.

At Bosch and ETAS I worked on automotive cloud platforms and learned to cut concepts so that developers can carry them.

My master’s took me back to health. Today I design DiGA and DTx products at DUX Healthcare, on a design system I built to answer questions before a project asks them.

And whenever I can, I put a prototype in someone’s hands. The sooner something meets a real person, the sooner I find out what is wrong with it.

Stations

2025 – now
DUX Healthcare
Digital Product Designer
Karlsruhe · mHealth Suite

Five DiGA and DTx products from first concept to live app, at first as the company’s only designer. I built the design system they all share and still maintain it; the design phase for a new DTx has come down from eight to ten weeks to about three. Since 2026 I onboard and guide the second designer, and I give the opening talk for the digital health projects in the Digital Design master’s at HdM Stuttgart.

Design systemsDiGA & DTxRegulationUser researchOnboarding
2023 – 2025
ETAS · Bosch Group
UX Designer, Vehicle Cloud Solutions
Stuttgart · Bosch PreMaster programme

An agile UX team on PANTARIS, a cloud platform for automotive services. I prepared and ran user research, worked out information architectures and flow charts, built wireframes and interactive prototypes, and helped shape the ETAS style guide. My focus was the Creator experience: users who think technically and commercially at once.

Information architecturePrototypingUsability testingDesign systems
2021 – 2022
Robert Bosch
UX Design Intern
Ludwigsburg · Software development

Design and research for an automotive cloud web service: flow charts, wireframes, interactive prototypes and visual design to corporate standards, plus interviews, contextual inquiry and usability tests. The first place where I followed a design decision through alignment, build and release instead of handing it off as a concept.

User researchFlow chartsWireframingPrototyping
2016 – 2019
Milla & Partner
Apprenticeship, Marketing Communications
Stuttgart · Jung von Matt Group

Three years of project organisation in an agency for brand spaces and exhibitions, with projects like the Changi Experience Studio at Singapore Airport and the Kärcher Experience Center; junior project lead on the Zukunftspanorama at the Erwin Hymer Museum. Estimates, offers, schedules and project controlling ran across my desk.

Project organisationControllingEstimatesJunior project lead

Education

2025
HdM Stuttgart
M.A. Digital Design, with distinction

Master’s thesis: the Design Context Map, a usability framework for digital care applications, live at dipa.design.

2023
HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd
B.A. Interaktionsgestaltung

Bachelor thesis DermaLab with the teledermatology company dermanostic as partner.

2019
IHK Stuttgart
Kaufmann für Marketingkommunikation

With additional qualification in communication management, completed at Milla & Partner.