Summary
Julien Silva is a Lead UX practitioner based in Zurich with 12 years of experience shaping user-centered products across finance, enterprise, and B2B SaaS. He combines strategic UX leadership at Ergon’s Airlock with hands-on interaction design, prototyping and usability testing, fluent in tools from Figma and Protopie to Axure and After Effects. Julien mentors MAS and CAS students, serves as a long-standing Best of Swiss Apps UX juror, and brings rare depth in both visual/interaction craft and front-end implementation (HTML/CSS/JS). He’s proven at running workshops, enabling non-design stakeholders, and translating complex workflows into intuitive interfaces—skills sharpened by early full-stack and mobile projects.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate PHP OO, Certificate PHP OO at EB Zürich
Master of Advanced Studies Human Computer Interaction Design, Master of Advanced Studies Human Computer Interaction Design at HSR Hochschule Rapperswil
PC/LAN Supporter SIZ Diploma Information Technology, PC/LAN Supporter SIZ Diploma Information Technology at IFA, Zurich
VET Graduate Diploma Banking and Finance, VET Graduate Diploma Banking and Finance at KV Business School, Zurich
Creative Media Producer Multimedia Arts, Creative Media Producer Multimedia Arts at SAE Zürich
Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) UX Management, Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) UX Management at OST – Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences
German, English, French