flowen

flowen

Sr. UI engineer in NL/UK, ๐ŸŒŠ ๐ŸŒŠ ๐ŸŒŠ

About

UI-developer that enjoys building performant and fast apps. UI, 3d, and animation are the topics I focus on and love to tinker with. Love working together with great teammates or independently.

Projects

2024

about this.. yeah... great domain name, no?

2024

Interesting collaboration between Mike Shinoda x Hifilabs

Worked on the in-game app and interface. The game involved growing a critter and having it fight other critters. A bit like Tamagotchi feat Pokemon in which participants could win unique art-work by Shinoda himself.

surv1val won a webby's award!

linkedin.com/posts/hifi-labโ€ฆ

2023

tech: Nextjs, Firebase, styled components

AESPA fans across the globe participated in this first-of-its-kind fan engagement build for AESPAโ€™s 2023 โ€œBetter Thingsโ€ single release!๐ŸŒธ

During the event, each participant was given their own unique digital bouquet of flowers to take care of. In order to help their bouquets blossom, participants could stream the โ€œBetter Thingsโ€ single on Spotify, Apple, or Amazon Music as well as invite their friends to join in on the fun.

At the end of the event, every participant was given a unique 1:1 collectible of their beautiful bouquet. Access to special prizes were also unlocked based on how well they took care of their ๐Ÿ’โ€™s!

2023

Lead dev for daktyl.xyz

| ๐œ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ž๐›๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ž:
โ—˜ direct-to-fan experiences
โ—˜ home for holders of digital collectibles
โ—˜ verify assets to unlock exclusives*
โ—˜ access
@kitsio_
remix competition*

๐Œ๐จ๐ซ๐ž ๐๐ž๐ญ๐š๐ข๐ฅ๐ฌ | ๐ƒ๐š๐ค๐ญ๐ฒ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ž๐›๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ž:
โ†’ Exclusives include: members chat, new music, unreleased tracks, intimate experiences, and more.

โ†’ Remix competition: access new sounds from
@daktyluk
's upcoming mixtape ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ค๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ (๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ 2)
โ†’ We partnered with
@kitsio_
to launch a remix competition, that launched today!

โ†’ ๐™’๐™๐™–๐™ฉ'๐™จ ๐™ฃ๐™š๐™ญ๐™ฉ: The full ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ค๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ (๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ 2) project will be available to mint on
@soundxyz_
two days before it's globally released on 6.30.23.

โ†’ daktyl.xyz

2022

Early startup around MO - Metaverse Organism.
Mysterious, cute-looking creature from a secret lab.

Worked on the prototype in a Ruby environment, using three.js, and react-spring to create components and UIs.
Finalized by migrating the product to react-fiber in Nextjs.

2021

๐ŸŒถ๏ธ๐Ÿฅต๐Ÿ’€ but we did it

Worked on the prelaunch of sound.xyz. The NFT platform for artists to actually earn money vs bs Spotify streaming pennies by selling parts of their song as NFT's in which in a Soundcloud-manner the owners of the NFT can add a comment.

2021

Another product with MSCHF. This time I created a clone of Omegle, but with an extra twist: you're able to select an online celebrity and record a video with him/her and share this with the world to earn 'clout'.

Nuxt static frontend with lots of animations and basically copying omegle's design (never underestimate how hard it is to redo an oldskool design ๐Ÿ˜‚)

2021

MSCHF bought over 100 likely presidential domains and sold shares of each domain to its fans.

I created a custom webshop with node.js, Stripe API and DynamoDB (AWS) plus a static frontend with Nuxt.

MSCHF is known for creating viral products. The webshop had to be able to handle a high influx of visitors. Using AWS to automagically scale servers, S3 buckets with a static frontend (Nuxt) and DynamoDB to track purchases. Within an hour all domain shares were sold out.

2020

Little fun & coding studio with Sander Fisher.

Heavy on animations and lots of fun details.

Side Projects

Ongoing

Usually just for fun. Audioreactive visuals, graphics, illustrations, photoshop mockups, generated visuals, 3d, three.js, Unity, Processing, Ableton Live, and photography

2019

Full side-project including copy, design & code.

See this thread for more info:
twitter.com/flowen_AF/statโ€ฆ

2018
Shinbyeong๏ปฟ

Wrote a fiction book.

if you dig it, hit me up and I'll send you a free copy

Writing

2018

My wife challenged me to write a book in 30 days: medium.com/@flowen/im-wriโ€ฆ

and I actually did it. Here's the plot:

In a future where South and North Korea have unified, we follow the life of a young introvert geek. Living in the slums of Pyongyang. He works a day job as a network engineer. But at the weekend he indulges in futuristic drugs at underground parties.

He wakes up all alone in a dark basement after losing control of himself at a party. No memories, a bunch of unread messages on his phone, he has no clue what happened. But after this incident, strange visual glitches are popping up. He's afraid he might be going crazy.

Yet, his roommate, Chung-Hei, connects his experiences to old Korean shamanistic mythologies. This starts off an investigation and together they go up to Mount Paektu. All while following the thoughts of a man going insane.

Shinbyeong also contains a documentary to support the storyline. Telling you what happened to North Korea before and after the unification. And explains real, ancient Korean mythologies to support the story.

If you like it, hit me up, I'll send you a copy.

2017

A little piece about my adventures in Bangladesh

2016

Still my favorite story I've ever written

Work Experience

2012 โ€” Now
Remote

Freelance UI development.

Been working fully remote for over 5 years now. For small businesses and large corporations to startups. Sometimes managing developers and doing design as well as UI development.

Lately been focused on React (Gatsby), Vue (Nuxt) Three.js, animation, and user interfaces.

I believe strong communication skills are a must, especially for remote jobs. Communication is key to avoid confusion and thus time and money.

I feel less opinionated about: backend technologies, branding, and content creation.

I adjust well to the client's or team's specific needs and have experience adjusting to many different kinds of coding environments. My fuerte is Styling & Javascript. Always trying to keep things simple.

I also tried creating a few products myself and have experience and empathy for those who are walking into the unknown.

2009 โ€” 2013
Utrecht, Netherlands

FED roots: Junior โžก๏ธ Senior

Education

2009 โ€” Now
Bachelor of communication at InHolland
Netherlands

University of applied sciences. Who cares really ยฏ_(ใƒ„)_/ยฏ

Contact

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