08/29/2024 updated
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Freelance Design Lead | Design Systems, UI Design
Antwerpen, Belgium Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences, Diplom-Designer (FH), Communication Design
User Experience (UX)Adobe InDesignApplication Programming Interfaces (APIs)AuditingBusiness To BusinessSoftware as a ServiceDesign ManagementUser Interface DesignInfrastructure ManagementSystems ArchitectureDesign DocumentationAdvance Design SystemMetricsFigma
With 7+ years in design systems and 20 years in digital design, I’m a great fit for a Lead Designer role or Senior Designer. I am an independent hands-on design lead, helping companies launch and enhance their design systems. I focus on bridging the gap for designers, developers, and business specialists.
With an extensive experience in design systems, I am offering the following services:
• Audit of design processes and libraries
• Kickstart or boosting a design system
• Hands-on Figma expertise in building UI components
• Apply the WCAG accessibility standards to all designs
• Setting up multi-theme token structure (or variables in Figma)
• Design system architecture and infrastructure
• Writing functional and UX documentation
• Organizing smooth processes (goal setting and clear metrics)
• Team supervision and design management
• Community support (eg via active slack channel)
• Workshop and training
German designers are known for their thoroughness (“Deutsche Gründlichkeit”). I own excellent organizational skills to plan and manage my work and team.
I collaborate closely with the developers in our team to design APIs. This way, our components can be 100% synchronized in design and code. I cannot code, but I have a strong ability to understand code.
I worked for a broad range of clients: from governmental to commercial, SaaS products, B2B and B2C. From startups to large corporations.
With an extensive experience in design systems, I am offering the following services:
• Audit of design processes and libraries
• Kickstart or boosting a design system
• Hands-on Figma expertise in building UI components
• Apply the WCAG accessibility standards to all designs
• Setting up multi-theme token structure (or variables in Figma)
• Design system architecture and infrastructure
• Writing functional and UX documentation
• Organizing smooth processes (goal setting and clear metrics)
• Team supervision and design management
• Community support (eg via active slack channel)
• Workshop and training
German designers are known for their thoroughness (“Deutsche Gründlichkeit”). I own excellent organizational skills to plan and manage my work and team.
I collaborate closely with the developers in our team to design APIs. This way, our components can be 100% synchronized in design and code. I cannot code, but I have a strong ability to understand code.
I worked for a broad range of clients: from governmental to commercial, SaaS products, B2B and B2C. From startups to large corporations.
Languages
GermanNative speakerEnglishFluentFrenchGoodDutchFluent
Project history
UX Belgium is a growing community of 3000+ User Experience (UX) professionals in and around Antwerp and Brussels, Belgium. I help organizing the events, and also worked on the rebranding including a new logo and a nice graphical style used on presentations, batches, social media images etc
https://www.meetup.com/UX-Belgium
https://www.meetup.com/UX-Belgium
I am an independent hands-on design lead, helping companies launch and enhance their design systems. While focussing on the users’ needs, I craft meaningful aesthetic graphic solutions that scale. I aim for innovation, inclusivity and simplicity.
Services I offer (but are not limited to):
Vlaamse Overheid – Katoen Natie – DataCamp – Süddeutsche Zeitung – Bloomup – VRT – Ovam – Scriptbook – Politeia – Mediafin – BNP Paribas – contrast law – Larcier business – and many more.
Services I offer (but are not limited to):
- Design System (Kickstart, Building, maintainance & UX documentation, figma expert, token setup and integration, accessibility, advocacy, audit, stategy)
- UI Designs (web and native)
- User Experience Design & UX thinking
- Team supervision and coaching
- Brand Identities
- Lecturing and workshops
Vlaamse Overheid – Katoen Natie – DataCamp – Süddeutsche Zeitung – Bloomup – VRT – Ovam – Scriptbook – Politeia – Mediafin – BNP Paribas – contrast law – Larcier business – and many more.
teaching Typography on screens. https://plantininstituut.be/opleiding/typografie-voor-schermen/
Portfolio
Vlaanderen DS
Design System for the Flemish Government
https://overheid.vlaanderen.be/webuniversum/v3/documentation/components/
Katoen Natie DS
Hexagon – the enterprise Design System for a logistic Company
https://www.volpelino.com/project/katoennatie/
DataCamp
Waffles, Design System for an n online learning platform for data science and analytics
https://www.volpelino.com/project/datacamp/
PIT website
a website and eshop for the Plantin Institute of Typography, a school for advances Typography
https://plantininstituut.be/
Scriptbook
UX/UI design, art direction, illustrations for the corporate website and paid online database of an innovative Ai tech company
https://www.scriptbook.io/#!/
VRT Profile
UX/UI design for an universal profile for Flemish national public-service broadcaster