Curious mind, hard worker, tangible results.

I am a product designer in Hamburg. Most of my work has been with agencies and startups, which is a useful education in shipping: you learn quickly which decisions are worth defending and which ones are just taste.

My strongest work is in UI and visual design, but I am not much use parked at the end of a process. I would rather be in it from research and ideation through to high-fidelity prototypes, because the interesting problems tend to surface somewhere in the middle and nobody writes them down.

A lot of that has meant design systems and UI libraries — building them, and then living with them long enough to find out where they creak. I work closely with developers through handoff, and I am happiest when the DesignOps side is quiet enough that nobody has to think about it.

I came to this from civil engineering, which left me with a taste for things that hold up under load and a fairly high tolerance for detail work. It also means I am comfortable being the person who asks whether the structure is right before anyone picks a colour.