About.

Eva Cochet-Weinandt – Zurich, Switzerland

Design leader shaping design culture and aligning human-centered strategy, experience, and decision-making to drive business impact at scale.

About me

I work at the intersection of experience strategy, organizational design, and decision-making in complex enterprise environments. Over the past 10+ years, I’ve held senior UX leadership roles at Siemens and IBM, shaping human-centered direction across large-scale software, cloud, and smart-infrastructure portfolios. My work focuses on positioning experience as a strategic lever, from defining UX vision and operating models to enabling organizations to make clearer, evidence-based decisions.

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At Siemens, I served as Head of UX, leading the building and scaling of a global design organization across a broad product ecosystem. Later, I shifted my focus upstream, working  closely with leadership and teams on strategic direction, building further on the foundation of the UX organization. Previously at IBM, I led interdisciplinary design teams working on enterprise software and data-driven platforms, combining research, strategy, and delivery in highly complex contexts.

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Beyond my core roles, I care about community, mentorship, and knowledge sharing. I co-founded the Design at Scale meetups (2021–2023) to create a space for enterprise designers to exchange perspectives on scale, complexity, and craft. I was also a mentor with UX Rescue, supporting early-career designers through real-world NGO projects, an experience that reinforced the importance of empathy and responsibility in practice.

Awards

if design award – 2022

User Interface: Interfaces for digital medias, IBM SPSS Statistics - Next Generation

Indigo design award – 2022

Silver award in the Digital Tools and Utilities category for Project NX, IBM SPSS Statistics

Spark Design Award Platinium – 2021

Digital category: IBM SPSS Statistics - Next Generation

Corporate Technical Award – 2019

IBM SPSS Statistics

Red Dot Design Award – 2018

Interface Design and User Experience Design category: IBM SPSS Statistics

Outstanding Innovation Award – 2018

IBM SPSS Statistics

Worlddidac Award – 2016

For the German language textbook “Die Sprachstarken” book volumes 7-9

For the German language textbook “Die Sprachstarken” book volumes 7-9

Talks & Events

Talk – UX Camp Switzerland – 2025

The context is stronger than the concept

Talk – UX Camp Switzerland – 2024

Crafting Better UX: A Collaborative Quality Framework

Talk – UX Camp Zurich – 2023

Kickstart a UX Org

PoDcast – Buildings of Tomorrow – 2023

Enhancing the human experience in buildings

Talk – UX at Siemens – 2023

Embracing the UX maturity journey for sustainable impact

Talk – UX Rescue – 2021

What it takes to get hired in the UX Role of your dreams

Talk – Spark Design Festival – 2021

Best practices to master legacy experience transformations

Workshop UX Rescue2021

Introduction to Enterprise Design Thinking

Talk & Exhibition – 5th Studio Anniversary – 2019

Transforming a 50-year-old legacy product into a design award winner 

Exhibition Desrist 2017

Introduction to Enterprise Design Thinking

Workshop World Usability Day 2016

Introduction to Enterprise Design Thinking

Publications

The Unwanted Creatives – Read here

Medium

The Paradox of UI – Read here

Medium

The Context is Stronger than the Concept –  Read Here

Medium, Bootcamp