About
Hi, I am Stephan.
Commercially I am a freelance designer and developer; privately I make pizzas and games.
I am based near Ulm in southern Germany but work remotely with and for people all around the world.
My services
Website and app design (UI/UX)
Web development
I enjoy working with those technologies: React, Astro and TailwindCSS.
Data viz and creative coding
This includes visualizations for complex data or unusual technological problems.
Selected projects
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Seitlerei
Website builder with CMS for people who don’t know what either means
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Refactoring OpenMoji.org
Modernizing and making the website maintainer friendly
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Automated outlining for OpenMoji
Making the set of open-source emoji work on dark backgrounds
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Blitzstart.com
A new website alongside a branding iteration
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Link Preview Generator
Website previews for your favourite notes app (or wherever you need it)
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Website of 'Flights to Rome'
The data viz project's forgotten brother
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Teleportr.app
A slick appearance for a slick service
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The Bogner Projection
Understanding map projections by inventing one
Selected notes
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Design is the Umami of Creation
What Design actually is and why it’s so hard to define
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Laserhub's shared language between dev and design
A balance between a design system and pure chaos
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12 Product design principles
Learnings from the challenges of a growing B2B startup
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Hierarchy of a (digital) products needs
Which aspects of software are more important than others
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Boring Billion Dollar Companies
Maybe great ideas didnt sound that great in the beginning?