Christian Marc Schmidt

Founder, CEO, and Managing Partner

NOV 2012 - PRESENT · 13.9 years

Schema is a design and technology firm pioneering intelligent interfaces for frontier technologies. We partner with organizations across diverse sectors—including energy, finance, health, research, and technology—to transform complex data into actionable insights. At the intersection of human creativity and machine intelligence, we create innovative, meaningful, and visually compelling tools and experiences that empower people to explore, understand, interpret, and model data with clarity and confidence.

Founder and CEO

APR 2016 - FEB 2021 · 4.9 years

Gist was a software platform that made it fast and easy to create interactive, exploratory visualizations, with the goal to empower individuals and teams to discover and share insights from data.

Adjunct Instructor

JAN 2015 - APR 2015 · 4 months

Taught the design studio course "Dynamic Information Design" in the undergraduate design department.

Guest Faculty

JAN 2012 - DEC 2012 · 1 year

Guest faculty in the Division of Design, Visual Communication Design program. Taught design studio course "Visualizing Interactions" for VCD seniors and graduate students.

Senior UX Designer

JAN 2010 - NOV 2012 · 2.9 years

Senior UX Designer at IPE (formerly Bing Mobile) in Microsoft's Online Services Division, based in Bellevue, WA. I collaborated with designers, scientists and engineers in the IPE NEXT team on incubation-stage projects. Senior UX Designer in the Bing core UX team in Microsoft's Online Services Division, based in New York. Design Lead for Visual Search/Rich Browse (2011 cycle). Designed the page type framework for Bing.com domains (2011 release cycle). Developed concepts for data visualization experiences for search and social data, a UI for an entity database, as well as a nextgen search experience for modern browsers.

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Communications

JAN 2007 - DEC 2009 · 3 years

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Communications in the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Taught graduate studios "Expressing Information" (Fall 2007) and "Mainstreaming Information" (Spring 2009, co-taught with Lisa Strausfeld).

Associate/Lead Designer

MAY 2006 - DEC 2009 · 3.7 years

Designer in the New York office, reporting to Lisa Strausfeld (Partner). Experience with projects involving interaction design, data visualization, user-experience and media installation.

Interaction Designer

JAN 2004 - DEC 2006 · 3 years

Interaction designer at IDEO Chicago. Design of user experiences for products, services and environments.