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About

Hi, I'm Elisabeth.
I design for real people.

Black and white photo of Elisabeth Saehr smiling from the window of a vintage train carriage.
Based in
Lausanne, Switzerland
Languages
French (native), English (fluent)
Currently
UX Designer at Swiss Tomato, Geneva

From marketing to design, with people at the centre of both.

My roots are in marketing, mostly in the humanitarian sector. At Medair I spent years on campaigns meant to make a positive difference.

Over time I fell for design: not just how things look, but how they feel, connect and tell a story. That curiosity became research, with qualitative interviews, a survey of 1,000 users and navigation tests that shaped the redesign of medair.org.

Since then I have worked as a freelance UX/UI designer and now at Swiss Tomato, pairing strategy with visual creativity for websites, apps and brands. I also design and build with AI, which is how Symio went from an insight to a working iOS app.

Creative, solution-oriented and organised. I never lose my keys.

Experience

Eight years of learning what people need.

  1. 2026 to now

    Geneva

    Senior Web Account Manager and UX Designer

    Swiss Tomato

    • Website and mobile app projects, from discovery to launch.
    • UX audits and discovery workshops: stakeholder interviews, review of existing documentation, business requirements.
    • Information architecture and user flows for web and mobile apps.
    • UX/UI design reviews and quality checks with the development teams.
    • User acceptance testing, with feedback folded in until launch.

    Results6+ co-design workshops, 2 projects delivered

  2. 2022 to 2026

    Switzerland

    UX/UI Designer

    Freelance

    • User research before every redesign: benchmarks, interviews, quantitative and qualitative tests.
    • Web and mobile interfaces, from wireframes to tested high-fidelity prototypes.
    • Design systems in Figma: components, variants, tokens and documentation for developers.
    • Design Thinking co-design workshops with clients.

    Results8+ projects delivered, an e-commerce site above 4% conversion

  3. 2021 to 2024

    Ecublens

    UX Designer and Senior Digital Marketing Officer

    Medair

    • Led the user research for the medair.org redesign: qualitative interviews and a survey of 1,000 users.
    • Usability testing: card sorting and tree testing to restructure the navigation, and testing of the web app.
    • Turned findings into user journeys, wireframes and Figma prototypes validated by A/B testing.
    • Improved the website's accessibility to WCAG standards.
    • Presented findings and design choices to leadership, IT, developers and business teams.

    Results+47% online donations, +88% online traffic, +28% newsletter subscribers

  4. 2019 to 2021

    Ecublens

    UX Designer and Digital Marketing Officer

    Medair

    • Wireframes and mockups of landing pages, optimised from usage data (Hotjar, Google Analytics).
    • Website and email campaign strategy with the Salesforce CRM.

    Results10,000+ newsletter subscribers managed

  5. 2017 to 2019

    Ecublens

    Marketing Assistant

    Medair

    • Website updates, content publishing and translation coordination.

Toolkit

Skills, tools and training.

Skills

  • User research, qualitative and quantitative
  • Usability testing: card sorting, tree testing, moderated and unmoderated
  • Design Thinking and co-design workshops
  • Personas, user flows and sitemaps
  • UI design, mockups and prototypes
  • Design systems
  • Accessibility (WCAG, RGAA)
  • Web and app design
  • AI-assisted building (Cursor, Claude Code, Lovable)
  • HTML and CSS

Tools

  • Figma
  • Miro
  • Maze
  • Useberry
  • Userlytics
  • Hotjar
  • FullStory
  • Google Analytics (GA4)
  • Google Tag Manager
  • Jira
  • Adobe Suite
  • Webflow
  • WordPress
  • Google Search Console
  • Cursor
  • Claude Code
  • Lovable

Education

  • AI CodingMemorisely2026
  • UX Research BootcampMemorisely2023
  • UX/UI Digital Product DesignDribbble2022
  • DUT in Business and Administration ManagementIUT Besançon-Vesoul, France2015 to 2017
Elisabeth Saehr climbing a pale limestone rock face with a rope and helmet.

Away from the screen

Good ideas often show up outside.

When I step away from the screen, you will find me on a tennis court, on skis, on a climbing wall or at the piano.

  • Tennis
  • Skiing
  • Climbing
  • Piano
Let's talk