Designer with a systems mindset
Experience
September 2022 – Present
KVK - Kamer van Koophandel
Interaction Designer - Design System Team
At KVK, I am focused on curating, documenting, and creating usable and accessible digital experiences with the design system team and product development teams. I also advocate for adoption and collaboration in the organization through facilitating workshops and mentoring peers to effectively use the design system.
Key responsibilities include:
- Product design for usable and accessible components and patterns, adopted by product teams that work on products for KVK.nl
- Collaborate with the product owner to establish a relevant backlog based on the design system subscribers’ needs
- Cross-disciplinary team player between front-end and design
- Advocating for the design system in the organisation by presenting the design systems’ worth in reviews and in quarterly presentations
- Stimulating engagement between subscribers and the design system itself by setting up collaborative working sessions and workshops
Januari 2024 – April 2024
KVK - Kamer van Koophandel
Interim Product Owner - Design System Team
Key responsibilities include:
- Guard product progress and product roadmap
- Product backlog management and prioritization
- Stakeholder management
- Quarterly planning
October 2016 - August 2022
team.blue
UX/UI (Product) Designer - Design System Team
At team.blue, I was responsible for creating and maintaining a design system with the team. The design system enabled multiple brands to boost their online presence and user experience in a short period of time. I also initiated and led the switch from Sketch to Figma which enabled a better collaboration in design & development process.
Key responsibilities include:
- Creating and maintaining a design system by designing patterns, UI components, documentation, tools, and processes that enable the users of the system to create consistent, accessible, and high quality user experiences across multiple team.blue brands
- Designing user experiences for customers of multiple brands across Europe and presenting these to stakeholders and iterating through user tests
- Product design for white-label control panel products
- Front-end development (HTML/Twig & CSS)
- Contributing to the design system component library
- Initiating and facilitating the switch from Sketch to Figma
- Documenting design & front-end BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation) processes in Camunda modeler
Education
2012-2016
The Hague University of Applied Sciences
2022
Figma Academy certification
Figma Academy
2023
By Amy Hupe - Frankly design ltd.
2024
Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF)
How I work
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