experience

From designing adaptive ecosystems to leading high-performing teams worldwide, my work bridges experience innovation, emerging intelligence, and future-defining strategy.

Explore the roles that have defined my career and the expertise that drives my vision:

  • Since 2025 - Munich, Germany

    nxt nxt is the future-driven innovation platform shaping next-generation mobility experiences.

    We redefine how people interact with vehicles, brands, and digital ecosystems – merging cutting-edge technology, design, and strategy to create seamless, immersive, and intelligent mobility solutions.

    A global collective of interdisciplinary specialists in experience innovation, mobility UX, and software-defined vehicle ecosystems, we craft visionary brand, product, and customer experiences that anticipate tomorrow’s mobility landscape.

  • 2019 - 2024 / Los Angeles, USA

    Lead the design, innovation, and digital product development strategies for Fortune Global 100 corporations, transforming customer and brand experiences through the integration of emerging technologies and advanced design methodologies.

    Drive global cross-functional teams to deliver holistic experience solutions that align with both creative vision and business objectives, positioning icon as a leader in global innovation and digital product excellence.

  • 2015 - 2017 / Los Angeles, CA

    Spearheaded the creation of a visionary UX design framework, integrating advanced technologies to deliver a seamless, future-oriented digital product experience, always keeping the user at the center.

    Built and led a world-class team of designers and product managers across LA, Silicon Valley, and Beijing, fostering a culture of rapid innovation, agility, and user-centric digital product development.

    Faraday Future (FF) is a California-based global shared intelligent mobility ecosystem. FF is poised to break the boundaries between the Internet, IT, creative, and auto industries with product and service offerings that integrate new energy, AI, Internet, and sharing models. FF's vision is to create a shared intelligent mobility ecosystem that empowers everyone to move, connect, breathe and live freely.

  • 2008 - 2015 / Munich - Berlin, Germany

    Dual role overseeing creative direction and global business operations, transforming icon incar into the world’s leading automotive UX design studio.

    Delivered award-winning, user-focused projects for leading OEMs such as BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and Porsche, setting new industry standards in automotive user experience and digital product innovation.

  • 2002 - 2008 / Munich, Germany

    Developed and implemented cutting-edge UX/UI design solutions for BMW, MINI, and Rolls-Royce, always prioritizing the user experience to set new standards in next gen automotive design.

    Played a key role in shaping brand-specific digital identities, from concept cars to series production, ensuring consistency and excellence across all user touchpoints.

  • Since 2017

    Visiting lecturer at ArtCenter transportation and systems design, Pasadena, University of Michigan

  • 2018 - 2019 / Los Angeles, USA

    Founded nxt nxt, a forward-thinking consultancy focused on pioneering the future of mobility through human-centered design and advanced digital ecosystems.

    Directed creative and technological innovation for startups and OEMs, including BMW Group and emerging EV companies, leveraging new technologies to push industry boundaries while maintaining a focus on exceptional user and brand experiences.

  • Launched 2024 / Los Angeles, USA

    With the creation of mobility spaces, I've established a platform for visionaries and creators to forge the future of interdisciplinary mobility experiences.

    The work is characterized by a relentless drive to inspire and connect, fostering a community where new mobility innovation thrives through the power of creative ideation.

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“Christian’s work is not just about reimagining cars, but about leading the evolution of mobility itself—merging technology, design, and experience innovation to create transformative spaces that redefine how we move and live.”

Christian Eckert shapes the next era of mobility — redefining how humans interact with intelligent vehicles, adaptive interfaces, and the evolving technological ecosystems that will define the decade ahead. He treats mobility not as a product, but as a cognitive, living system that senses, learns, and adapts to people, context, and culture.

For more than twenty years, Christian has led this transformation across the automotive and technology landscape. He has built foundational experience architectures for global organizations, guiding the shift from hardware-led product thinking to experience-defined, intelligence-driven mobility. His approach integrates systems thinking, design intelligence, AI, and cultural insight to create experiences that are intuitive, emotional, and deeply future-ready.

Christian’s leadership roles at icon incar, Faraday Future, and BMW Group placed him at the center of next-generation mobility innovation. At icon incar, he co-directed one of the industry’s most progressive mobility experience practices. At Faraday Future, he transformed Digital Product & UX into an innovation-first, cross-disciplinary organization. Earlier, at BMW Group, he helped establish the digital DNA of BMW, MINI, and Rolls-Royce — work that influenced an entire era of in-car experience design.

Across high-stakes programs and global teams, Christian has consistently expanded what mobility can become. He has steered Fortune 100 companies through strategic transitions, shaped the product and experience identity of emerging EV startups, and delivered multi-platform ecosystems that seamlessly connect physical, digital, and intelligent layers.

His latest ventures — NXT NXT and mobilityspaces.com — express a clear and uncompromising vision for the future: mobility as an adaptive environment, interfaces as evolving ecosystems, and vehicles as intelligent spaces shaped by human meaning and cultural change.

Christian continues to work internationally as a strategic advisor, experience futurist, and innovation partner — helping organizations navigate complexity, design future-ready experience systems, and accelerate their transition toward an intelligence-driven mobility future.