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Groningen, GR, NL

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NL

• As the Founder and CEO of Flow, I lead a mission to simplify finance by integrating intelligent, user-focused solutions into everyday business platforms. Flow started as a money automation app for consumers, but after.
• Strategic Leadership: Steering Flow’s vision and strategy, ensuring our mission to simplify finance remains at the core of every decision.
• Product Innovation: Driving the development of FlowOS, a platform that integrates banking services (accounts, cards, and automation) into business platforms, enabling intuitive and efficient financial management.
• Partnerships: Leading collaborations with industry leaders like Adyen to deliver world-class embedded banking solutions.
• Team Building: Growing and mentoring a diverse team of product, tech, and financial experts, united by the goal of transforming finance.
• Customer Focus: Ensuring Flow meets real customer needs by prioritizing seamless user experiences and solving complex financial challenges.Key Achievements:

Schiphol, NL

Schiphol Amsterdam Airport is transforming rapidly into one of the best digital airports in the world. Using sensors, big data and smart API’s a lot of teams are collaborating on making a journey through Schiphol more seamless and enjoyable. The Schiphol App is the the touchpoint where everything comes together for the traveler, taxi driver and for the mom.

Yolt is a corporate FinTech startup by ING, it is an app that lets you unthink money. Yolt is a front runner in the highly competitive UK market, and often leads other FinTechs and Neobanks by example. As a designer at a startup, I’m thinking on my feet and leaning on my experience to make the right decisions, move fast but deliver by a high standard..

Amsterdam, North Holland, NL

Leading the team of Interaction Designers at our Amsterdam HQ. Responsible for hiring team members and creating a balanced team of specialists. My goal is to facilitate individual growth and train my team members to be independent specialists and good facilitators themselves. Also involved with multiple projects as UX lead, Design Sprint facilitator as.

Amsterdam, North Holland, NL

At UNITiD I learned to be an Interaction Design specialist. I grew from Interaction Designer to Principal Designer and eventually to Team Lead. Working at UNITiD is a very versatile experience: I have worked on many projects, in a lot of fields. I have led workshops for elementary school systems, build entertainment products from scratch, worked on IoT.

Hilversum, Noord-Holland, NL

[Via Hike One]. For the Juke FM app project at Talpa Radio, a direct competitor to Spotify, my mission was pivotal: to bridge the strategic vision with the tangible scrum development process. Through the utilization of Design Sprint methodologies and drawing on expert insights, we aimed to define a clear and validated future direction for the app. This.

Hilversum, Noord-Holland, NL

[Via Hike One] The KRO NCRV innovation department collaborated with us on in Design Sprint: how to bring a successful TV format online, more specifically: on Social Media. This was a different kind of Design Sprint, not straight a straight forward product feature or app pivot. The end result was not only a user validated direction, but also new insights in.

Hilversum, NL

[Via Hike One]. Radio 538 App. Radio 538, the most popular radio station in the Netherlands, needs the best radio experience possible on a phone. A new experience that is ready for the future, and one that can be a real alternative for people listening to all kinds of music services during the day, outside of the car with FM radio.To find the best angle.

Wolfsburg, Niedersachsen, DE

[Via Hike One]. Redesigning Volkswagen.nl. As UX lead and Design Sprint facilitator, I have worked on two Design Sprints for a new volkswagen.nl, one focussing on the homepage and buying new cars and the other focussing on service and maintenance. Multiple product owners from different brands were involved, as this site will be a platform for multiple.

Hilversum, NL

• [Via Hike One] Buienradar
• App Redesign. Buienradar is the most used weather app in the Netherlands. Competition is fierce in this field. Other apps that only focus on one single area or that offer a broader weather-view are getting momentum..

London, GB

[Via Hike One] Liberty Global serves entertainment to millions of users worldwide. I had the privilege to work on one of the leading products in their portfolio: the Horizon TV interface. This was a major redesign project, where the goal was to improve the user experience significantly as well as designing one modular product for multiple international.

London, GB

[Via Hike One] Corporate startup project focussing on creating a relevant IoT product for households. In twelve weeks we created a working MVP version of a 'home security system that shouldn't feel like a home security system'. The MVP was tested in a pilot immediately afterward with a very positive outcome on the concept.This project was challenging in.

Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, NL

[Via Hike One] At KPN, I led the interaction design for a new feature that enables users to transfer data within their family phone subscriptions. My responsibilities included designing the in-app flow to clearly introduce and explain this feature, creating prototypes to refine the user experience, and managing stakeholder expectations to align the project.

Hilversum, Noord-Holland, NL

[Via Hike One] For NPO, I was involved in creating a Smart TV interface for HBBTV, with a focus on interaction design to ensure an intuitive and user-friendly experience. This project allowed me to dive deep into user behaviors, refining the interface to make it not only accessible but also engaging for a wide audience. Leveraging the capabilities of Smart.

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NL

[Via Hike One] At Philips/TP Vision, my role as an Interaction Designer was to elevate the TV experience by simplifying content discovery for users. Collaborating with the UX Director, we conceptualized and developed a compelling design narrative from the ground up, introducing innovative concepts like push and pull content interactions with TVs, and.

Hilversum, NL

[Via Hike One] At RTL Nieuws, I was pivotal in crafting the concept and full interaction design for the innovative multimedia news app, RTL 365. My work included creating animations and immersive reading experiences optimized for mobile and tablet platforms, setting a new standard for engaging news consumption. This project underscored my ability to merge.

Utrecht, NL

[Via Hike One] For Ziggo, I worked on designing the Ziggo TV apps for multiple platforms including iOS, Android, and PC/web, focusing on aligning the Android and iOS apps, adding multiple new flows, and designing a web app that could remote control a PC player. Emphasizing high-quality user experiences to meet brand expectations was key, especially in an.

Amsterdam, NL

[Via Hike One] As Interaction Designer for the TMG Ad Website, I led the design of intuitive, user-centric interfaces, ensuring optimal responsiveness across devices. My role involved close collaboration with development teams, and stakeholders, and leveraging the latest design technologies to enhance user experience and engagement.

Utrecht, Utrecht, NL

[Via Hike One] I had the privilege to work with Marten Blankesteijn, founder of Blendle. Now a very successful online news platform that sells individual articles. Back in 2011, Marten had a vision, he wanted to disrupt the newspaper market. I helped him conceptualize an interface with a visually convincing story he could use to convince stakeholders. The.

Amsterdam, North Holland, NL

I explored the possibilities of a third party application platform in the car. Basically "Apps in the Car". My conclusion was: the best app in the car is no app in the car. Ok, at least not in the way we are using them now, on screens. The best "app" in the car is there in the background, processing data and helping you in a subtle way. I learned that it's.

Rotterdam, South Holland, NL

Researching and creating innovative concepts with the concept team, related to Social Media and mobile applications for brands such as Sportlife and Boursin.

Rotterdam, South Holland, NL

During my internship here I was part of an interesting experiment: what happens when you put a digital designer (me) and an art director from an advertising background (William van Ommen) together in a team? We set out to approach multiple projects with our combined skill set, looking for meaningful ways in which to connect users with brands.

Rotterdam, South Holland, NL

Set up a narrowcasting network, worked on a student portfolio platform, designed internal and external communication for the institute. Learned everything about print and upped my graphical design skills at this job.

Bachelor, Communication And Multimedia Design

Propedeuse, Aviation Studies

Havo, Physics & Technology