Roy van Rooijen

Roy van Rooijen

Product Designer in Berlin, Germany, He/him

About

I’m a curious guy, dad, and husband, based in Berlin, Germany.

Currently product designer at Synthesia.io. Before I’ve co-founded Sketch Runner and worked at Pitch, IXDS, and Label A.

Teams

Current
Synthesia

Projects

2023

This is the first release of our GPT-based video script generation feature. You can provide a topic, audience, and optionally provide more details to then draft a script across several scenes. You can even generate in a different language!

Lots more work to do and we'll continue our efforts around assisted creation for video production. But I’m super excited for this to be released now. Oh, and yeah, we're hiring ;)

2022

Speaker view helps you to focus on giving your presentation by showing your speaker notes and slides in one place. We’ve reimagined what tools and flexibility a speaker needs for an outstanding delivery, and through beta testing and customer feedback, we came up with a minimal but modular interface for it.

2022
Recordings at Pitch

Transform your presentations by adding video recordings to your slides. Record on one or over multiple slides. Edit any recording at any moment. Style your recording to become part of the slide design, or to get out of the way. Whatever works for you to deliver the best presentation to your aucience.

2021
Design system at Pitch

I've led the Design System initiate for a year, improving styles and components based on usage and feedback from all internal stakeholders. In addition I championed integrating Specify to automate icons and colors from our design libraries in Figma to our codebase hosted on GitHub.

Side Projects

2019

A curated digest on the best resources and latest news for digital designers and makers.

Speaking

2022
Berlin (Online)

Check out the recorded talk here on the Pitch presentation gallery: pitch.com/presentations/…

2019
Hamburg

Personal learnings on side projects, organizing events, and figuring out doing what makes sense as a digital designer. And how it all got a boost in Hamburg.

2018
Hamburg, Germany

The workflows from design to a shipped digital product are broken in many ways. Learn how to work smarter across skills within your team, and understand the pitfalls and leverage the power of state-of-the-art design tools.

Work Experience

2021 — Now
2017 — 2019
2015 — 2017
Amsterdam, NL

Education

Contact

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