About Me
I come from the intersection of creativity and technology, and evolved into a designer and manager. Naturally, I think across design, engineering, and business. My focus is on dissolving silos and fostering true value creation for users and businesses.
My journey began in the Web 1.0 era around the year 2000. Dialup Modems
where still around, and ISDN was the new hot thing. People comminicated
with ICQ, MSN, and AOL Instant Messenger - the nerds used IRC Chats.
Social Media wasnt really a thing yet and Myspace or phpBB Boards were
the norm to exchange on topics.
The few websites online where
build with Frames, tables, and inline styles. They had features like:
Glossy buttons, beveled edges, Heavy gradients, Pixel fonts, Counters
(“You are visitor #002389”) and Guestbooks instead of comment sections.
The web wasn't responsive. Everyone learned by breaking things.
I was eleven and tinkering with our old PCs and trying to find creative ways to convince our router to ignore my dad's access rules. When on vacation, other kids where playing at the beach, I was the strange kid reading a C++, Pascal, or PHP book. I started to work with Linux, phpMyAdmin and MySQL and uploaded my first frame based websites via FTP, and quickly fell in love with how things worked behind the scenes. After school, some friends and me spent the time wardriving with our first Laptops on our bikes. When we accessed a Wifi we printed webdesign offers on the printers of buisnesses or funny messages on private printers (good old days). We also build websites four our classes with guestbooks to share our homework, telefon numbers and our ICQ Numbers. The tinkering mindset never left. Today I apply the same curiosity to UX, design systems, and AI-driven workflows—still exploring how things work, and increasingly, how people work with them.