About
Head of Design Safeguard Global by day, Director of the AI's at night.
(Previously at CodeSandbox, @ibm, @catawiki)
Projects
Built an app over the weekend to help dyslexic readers like my son—and myself. It uses Apple’s Vision framework to scan printed text and read it aloud with premium voices. Thanks to AI tools like Cursor AI, development was a breeze.
The app works offline, has no tracking, and is completely free. It might not be for you, but if you know someone who could benefit. they can download the app in the Appstore: apps.apple.com/app/id67369091…
Slite is an AI-powered collaborative note-taking and documentation app designed to help teams organize their information and collaborate efficiently. It provides a user-friendly real-time platform for creating, sharing, and editing documents. Key features of Slite include:
CodeSandbox Projects: a cloud development platform with the familiar speed and experience of CodeSandbox, but deeply integrated with your favorite tooling, and working on projects of any size. We’ve been using it at CodeSandbox ourselves to build CodeSandbox, and have been loving it!
I worked with IBM, Daimler, and Computer Rock on the smart ready to platform and mobile apps. Ready to plays a crucial role in Smart's future vision.
As UX designer, I helped the mobile team increase the impact on the business revenue. Growing the mobile revenue from less than 10% of the global revenue to 79%.
Led the design of Albelli's mobile app. With the Albelli photo book app for your smartphone, you can quickly and intuitively create your photo book.
Designed and Developed the web application LifeLines, a data visualization for the LifeLines study. A study into heritability and the environmental affect the health of a human being. username: Lifelines psw: Maaktonderzoekmogelijk.
Edited and co-Produced the award-winning Tango Démasqué commercial commissioned by the Philips business-unit up-market flat TV a commercial to demonstrate the range of possibilities of the Philips Aurea Ambilight series.
Several video productions for Philips business-unit up-market commercials vimeo.com/druchtie
Work Experience
Slite offers a new way for remote teams to do their best work. Our mission is to help people thrive in a remote world by empowering teams with a toolkit dedicated to making their work as efficient and joyful as office work could ever be.
Leading a talented team of Designers, Product Managers, and developers to shape the next generation of web development tools.
As Growth Platform Leader, I managed IBM iX CIC Growth Platform, leading the Customer engagement, Mobile, Salesforce, and Business strategy practices.
As Studio lead, I managed the ambitions of IBM and iX design Studios Benelux. I was overseeing a team—Building best-in-class digital experience for some of the world's biggest brands.
Led the design of Catawiki's mobile platform. And worked on the Redesign of the main application catawiki.com
Certifications
Side Projects
Say goodbye to passive reading! Revisiting books has never been easier! Actively engage with books by questioning them and learning something new
Lal assistant that works on Mac, IOS, and Apple Watch. It keeps track of your conversations and uses your location to provide answers.
Dutch Who Design is a place to showcase the work of talented Dutch designers to the world. The goal is to inspire new designers to diversify their references, experienced designers to diversify their network, and companies to diversify their teams.
Dutch Who Design is an open-source project based on brazilianswho.design (by Fabricio Teixeira and Zeh Fernanders)
A lightweight javascript drawing app optimized for the Apple Pencil.
With support for 3D Touch / Force Touch API Demo
force, radiusX, radiusY, touchType, altitudeAngle, azimuthAngle
And now stable diffusion
At work, we started doing monthly “What if days.”
Little experiments that don’t have to go anywhere. I began to do these experiments for myself as well. This time the question was: “What if an interface changed depending on your proximity to it.”
Having serious fun building the Google Assistant on my mac (click on link for audio)
20˚ For Nest a web app to control the nest thermostat
Densen is lightweight .h265 video converter
Writing
In recent years, there has been a significant focus on accessibility in the design community, which is a massive step in the right direction. A lot of attention is going to optimising for the visually impaired and colourblindness, which is an excellent development. The more inclusive we can make the digital world, the better!
Teams
