Marcus Knight is Head of User Experience at N26, where he leads design strategy and execution for one of Europe’s leading digital banks. With over 15 years of experience across global brands including Shopify, Delivery Hero, GfK, and adidas, Marcus has shaped high-performing design teams that deliver impactful, human-centered products at scale.
A conscious and charismatic design leader, he’s passionate about empowering designers to grow through vision, collaboration, and mentorship. His career spans fintech, e-commerce, and digital innovation, always driven by the belief that great design starts with empathy and ends with measurable impact.
Upcoming Talks
29 May 2026
Design doesn’t slow teams down, handoffs and uneven engineering capability do. Marcus Knight shows how to expose the hidden friction between design and development, set pragmatic standards, and use exemplars to raise implementation quality without slowing velocity. We’ll also separate AI myth from reality so teams invest where it actually saves time.
Outcomes:
- Identify and fix the top 5 friction points in the design→dev handoff.
- Establish a “code-ready” Definition of Ready (tokens, states, constraints).
- Use exemplar squads and pairing to lift engineering implementation standards.
- Apply AI where it works (discovery/synthesis), not where it wastes cycles (UI prompting).