Sebastian Stoelen

Sebastian Stoelen

Product Designer in Mortsel, Belgium

About

Hi, I’m Seba 👋🏻 I’m a designer with a passion for quality and craft. I combine visual design with hands-on prototyping to craft beautiful digital products that work.

I believe in sweating the details and letting great work speak for itself.

Work Experience

2023 — Now
Brussels, Belgium

Smooved is a startup in the real estate industry. One in five movers in Flanders enters their system to have their moving administration optimized, and every month, they gather twice as many broker reviews as Google.

As the Head of Product, I'm responsible for all aspects of the product, from vision and strategy to research, product design, and managing delivery.

More recently, after hiring a new PM, I've been focused more on Product Design and Design engineering.

2021 — 2023
Gent, Belgium

In The Pocket is one of Belgium's product studios. As a product designer, I assisted multiple clients with interaction and visual design to launch their first app or develop their next big initiatives.

2017 — 2021
Leuven, Belgium

AE is a software consultancy in Leuven. As an engineer, I worked for multiple clients like Nike and VDAB, taking up the role of lead developer near the end of my tenure at AE.

Side Projects

2024

100 Days of SwiftUI is a course to learn the fundamentals of SwiftUI.

Education

2020 — 2021
Gent, Belgium

Postgraduate degree covering various aspects of Service Design, ranging from user research, ideation and co-creation, prototyping, validation, marketing and communication, and finally design sprints.

2015 — 2017
Master of Civil Engineering, Computer Science - Human-Computer Interaction at KU Leuven
Leuven, Belgium

I graduated with distinction from KU Leuven. My thesis focused on interactive data visualisations around tangible objects.

2012 — 2015
Bachelor of Civil Engineering, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at KU Leuven
Leuven, Belgium

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