I'm a senior product designer based in Bussum, just outside Amsterdam. I design for software that carries weight: AI compliance, business banking, healthcare. The kind of product where a thoughtful interface can be the difference between a user who trusts the system and one who avoids it.
I came to product design the long way: Honours in Fine Arts, a graphic-design diploma (cum laude), video editing, then UX. The path means I think about products the way I think about objects. What they're made of, who touches them, how they hold up.
I'm at my best on cross-functional teams where I can own something end-to-end, from the first research conversation through to the shipped flow. I write well. I facilitate comfortably. And I take real ownership of the spaces between disciplines, because that's usually where the hard problems live.
On AI: I'm fluent with the modern stack (Cursor, v0, Figma Make, Claude) and I use it every day, but I hold strong views on where it should and shouldn't go in the design process. I'll share more of that thinking in my next case study.
I train for triathlons, make pottery (with more enthusiasm than technique), strategise over board games, and tend a small balcony of potted plants that have somehow survived six years of me. I travel for sun and for long walks. I'm generally game for an outdoor adventure.