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 an independent strategy, foresight, and creation practice working at the moment futures are still forming.

    The work focuses on shaping future-defining brands, products, and experience systems — where imagination, strategy, and making converge to give direction to what becomes real.

    Operating ahead of categories and convention, NXT NXT partners with organizations to envision, define, and bring into reality what does not yet have a clear name, market, or blueprint — across mobility, intelligent systems, and experience-driven innovation.

  • 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 technological ecosystems that will define the decade ahead.

He approaches mobility not as a product category, but as an intelligent, living system — one that senses, learns, and adapts to people, context, and culture.

For more than two decades, Christian has operated at the forefront of automotive and technology innovation. He has built foundational experience architectures for global organizations, helping shift the industry from hardware-led thinking toward experience-defined, intelligence-driven mobility. His work integrates systems thinking, design intelligence, AI, and cultural insight to create experiences that are intuitive, emotional, and future-ready by design.

Christian’s leadership roles at BMW Group, Faraday Future, and icon incar placed him at the center of next-generation mobility transformation. At icon incar, he co-directed one of the industry’s most progressive mobility experience practices. At Faraday Future, he redefined Digital Product & UX as an innovation-first, cross-disciplinary organization. Earlier at BMW Group, he helped establish the digital experience foundations for BMW, MINI, and Rolls-Royce — shaping an entire era of in-car interaction and identity.

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

Today, his work through NXT NXT and mobilityspaces.com reflects a clear and uncompromising vision:

mobility as an adaptive environment, interfaces as evolving ecosystems, and vehicles as intelligent spaces shaped by human meaning and cultural change.

Christian works internationally as a strategic advisor, experience futurist, and innovation partner — helping organizations navigate complexity, define future-ready experience systems, and lead the transition toward intelligence-driven mobility.