About
Booking November
Half designer, half engineer, fully responsible for the result.
Nine years of making interfaces for product teams, the last six of them writing the front end as well.
The desk, around four
I trained as a graphic designer, learned to code so my prototypes would stop lying, and never went back to handing things over.
Most product problems hide in the gap between a design file and a browser. I work in that gap. I sketch in Figma for an afternoon, then move into code, where spacing, loading states and motion become real decisions instead of annotations.
Teams bring me in when they need one person to own an interface from first flow to merged pull request. Away from the screen I restore old bicycles and get beaten at chess by my nine-year-old niece.
Based in
Rotterdam, NL
Works in
English, Dutch, Tagalog
Usual hours
09:00 to 17:30 CET
Prototype in the real medium
A coded prototype answers in a day what a static mock-up argues about for a week.
Fewer handoffs, fewer surprises
When the person who drew it also builds it, the details survive the trip to production.
Ship, then listen
I would rather release something small on Friday and learn from it on Monday.
Experience
2023 – Now
Design engineer
Now
Halfday
·
Rotterdam, hybrid
I lead the interface end to end: flows, the design system and the React front end. Time from design sign-off to release went from three weeks to four days.
2020 – 2023
Senior product designer
Ledgerline
·
Amsterdam
First design hire. I built the invoicing flow and the component library the product still runs on, then hired and coached two designers.
2018 – 2020
Product designer
Studio Kestrel
·
Utrecht
Agency work for twelve clients across fintech, health and retail. I introduced coded prototypes into every pitch.
2017 – 2018
Graphic designer
Paper Kite
·
Utrecht
Identity and editorial work for cultural clients. I taught myself JavaScript on the train home.
Education
Accessibility specialist
Self-study, certified
2021
Front-end engineering
Evening programme, Utrecht
2018
BA Interaction design
Maas Academy of Art, Rotterdam
2013 – 2017
Recognition
Best developer tool, Tessera UI
Lowlands Design Awards
2024
Speaker, Prototypes that don’t lie
Halfway Conf, Antwerp
2023
Honourable mention, Pollen
Northern Interface Awards
2022
Daily tools
Figma
Framer
React
TypeScript
SwiftUI
Tailwind CSS
Storybook
Playwright
Rive
Linear
I usually reply within a day
Booking November
Have a product that needs both halves of the brain?
I take on two projects a quarter. The next opening is in November, and the first call is always free.