About Expertise Projects Clients Career Get in touch

I design how products think,
not just how they look.

Product Designer · Digital Product Strategist · Founder

Thomas Marco Zimmermann

A designer's eye.
A strategist's mind.

Since 1988 Italy · Germany

30+

Years of practice

25+

Major clients

4½

Languages (Dutch is the ½)

3

Companies founded

About

True
.com
person.

Thomas Marco Zimmermann

In the mid-nineties, I co-founded Alesco Internet & Intranet Solutions together with Stefano "Tonno" Luzardi — one of Italy's first professional web and media agencies — earning recognition at SMAU for one of Italy's best early B2B e-commerce platforms. I then built sevenPM.com over fourteen years into a studio for innovative, user-centred online solutions.

As Senior E-Commerce Consultant at Oracle and then Reply, I led European projects for Intimissimi, Geox, Falconeri, Calzedonia, BMW Alphabet, and Long Tall Sally. Today I work as Product Designer at ART4ART srl — building a platform that connects talents and talent-seekers globally — and pursue my own digital ventures in parallel.

I bring a European perspective to every engagement. German, English, Italian, French — and Dutch (the ½).

Expertise

01

Product Design & Concept

From ambiguous brief to working product architecture.

I shape digital products from the ground up — defining structure, logic and interaction systems before a single screen is designed. Trained in industrial design, I approach every product as an architecture problem: what does it need to do, how does it behave, and why will people use it. This is the work I find most meaningful, and where I bring the most value.

02

UX Architecture & Interaction Design

The craft behind the interface.

Rigorous information architecture, user flow design and interaction systems — grounded in Nielsen Norman methodology since 2000. I design how products think, not just how they look — mapping user journeys, simplifying complex workflows, and building interaction logic that holds up at scale.

03

Digital Product Strategy

Positioning products in a moving market.

From concept validation to platform roadmapping, I help organisations define what to build, why it matters, and how to sequence it. I've led product strategy across startups, agencies and enterprise — advising on market positioning, feature prioritisation and platform evolution across European markets.

04

AI-Augmented Product Development

Building faster without building less intentionally.

I integrate AI tools across the full product design workflow — from rapid prototyping and generative interface design to production-ready interface development. AI doesn't replace product thinking; it compresses the distance between idea and artefact. I use it to move faster while keeping the quality bar high.

05

eCommerce & Platform Design

Commerce platforms at European scale.

As Senior eCommerce Consultant at Oracle and Reply, I led platform architecture and UX strategy for Intimissimi, Geox, Falconeri, Calzedonia, BMW Alphabet and Long Tall Sally across multiple European markets. I understand how commerce platforms are built, not just how they are used — from catalogue logic and checkout flows to multi-market rollouts.

Own Ventures

Alongside my work at ART4ART, I am building three digital products from the ground up — each addressing a real problem I care about deeply.

Hospitality

No!Logo / T42

White-label restaurant reservation & table management — and a future consumer booking platform.

No!Logo is a modern, white-label reservation and guest management system built primarily for system integrators — POS providers, payment platforms — who want to offer restaurants a state-of-the-art solution under their own brand. Once enough restaurants are on board, T42 (Table for Two) becomes the consumer-facing layer: one place to find and book tables anywhere.

Coming Soon

Co-founder &
Product Designer
with two partners

Sport

GoRow

The definitive P2P marketplace connecting traveling rowers with rowing clubs.

Experienced rowers face a real dilemma when they travel: they have to leave their passion behind because renting a high-performance shell is still a manual, email-based process. GoRow digitises the handshake between athlete and club through a unique home-club verification system — turning idle boathouse inventory into a global revenue stream, with equipment only ever handled by verified experts.

In Development

Founder
Ideation, UI &
Product Logic

Personal

Nimito

Never forget the perfect gift again.

A smart gift-organisation app combining reminders, gift history, and AI-powered suggestions — when it's time to buy, affiliate integrations turn ideas into purchases in one tap. A dream fifteen years in the making.

In Development

Founder
Building from
scratch

Selected Clients

Thirty years of work across retail, hospitality, finance, optics, pharma, manufacturing, and media — in Italy, Germany, France, Switzerland, and the UK.

AGV/ Akzo Nobel/ BMW Alphabet/ Burro Prealpi/ Calzedonia/ Carl Zeiss Vision/ Confindustria/ Falconeri/ Ficep/ Framon Hotels/ Geox/ Intimissimi/ Joint Research Centre/ JVC Professional/ Keytrade Bank/ Long Tall Sally/ Micros Fidelio/ Novartis/ Opengate/ Oracle/ Pavis/ Reply/ Sola Optical/ Starhotels/ Strateo Invest/ Tuborg/ UNIVA/ Vibram/ Villa d'Este/ Zelig

Career

2019 → present

Product Designer

ART4ART srl SB

Product vision, innovation, and design for a fully remote team of 21 across three countries — building a platform connecting talents and talent-seekers globally.

Nov 2023 → Mar 2024

Omnichannel Solution Director

XY Retail · Milan

Omnichannel retail strategy and solution design.

Aug → Dec 2018

Product Owner

Keytrade Bank · Brussels

Web and mobile app product ownership for one of Belgium's leading online banks.

2015 → 2017

Senior eCommerce Specialist

Reply

European eCommerce strategy and platform work for BMW Alphabet, Intimissimi, Falconeri, and others.

2010 → 2015

Senior eCommerce Consultant

Micros Retail Systems (Oracle)

European e-commerce for Calzedonia, Falconeri, Geox, Intimissimi, and Long Tall Sally.

2001 → 2015

Founder, CEO & Creative Director

sevenPM.com

Fourteen years building user-centred solutions for national and international clients.

2008 → 2011

Co-founder & CEO

Bidda srl · Milano

Innovative auction platform with a unique business model for premium consumer electronics.

2000 → 2007

Partner & Creative Director

Mymi · Milano

Milano style decoder — creative direction for a digital editorial and fashion platform.

1995 → 2001

Founder & Creative Director

Alesco Internet & Intranet Solutions · Ispra

One of Italy's first web agencies.

SMAU Prize 1997
1988 → 1994

Industrial & Corporate Design

Philips CID · Axis SpA · Conware

Industrial design, corporate identity, and brand communications — the foundation of a career-long design sensibility.

Let's
work
together.

thomas@tmz.it
Available for product design, platform architecture and strategic consulting Europe · Remote German · English · Italian · French · Dutch ½

I design how products think,
not just how they look.