• Hitomi is Japanese and lives in Karlsruhe.

Why does she like working at EDI?

• New ideas are valued regardless of staff experience
• She can fill many different roles: marketer, photographer, UX researcher and UI designer
• Work is done in an agile way with a one-week sprint
• People can choose where they want to work from: home office or office

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What are her tasks?

• UI development for the IoT framework EDI hive
• Front-end development for the EDI website
• Performing UX quality gates for EDI hive and the EDI website
• Drawing story boards that visualise a client's current and future process
• Writing user stories that serve as the basis for further development of the software
• Communicating with colleagues via Slack and Discord

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Her path to EDI:

• She meets Thomas and Mohanad in 2018 at a bar in Osaka, for which she works as a web designer and photographer
• She stays in touch with Mohanad, who is looking for a UI designer
• She completes the Google UX Designer Course
• With a working holiday visa, she then works for EDI on a trial basis
• She liked it and has stayed in Germany

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