Design engineer from the Netherlands obsessed with details. Currently at Linear. Past, built Uncommon and co-founded Grids.
About
I’ve been a “webmaster”, a “front-end developer”, an “interaction designer”, and in recent years, a “design engineer”. Whatever my current title may be, I’m a builder who uses whatever tools at hand to solve problems and invoke feelings. I believe design is a way to move humanity forward, and software is the medium through which I act on that ambition.
Outside of tech, I’m deeply into music; I’ve played piano ever since I was a kid. More recently, I picked up guitar. I'll occasionally write, take pictures and I spend my time always curious about people, places, art, technology and the world at large.
What I believe
Less really is more. As Antoine de Saint-Exupéry said in Airman's Odyssey: Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing
left to take away.
Design is communication and design is implicit. In my opinion, there is simply no other way to
do this. This is what I'm here to do; to find the essence of things and bring them to life.