I’m a 32-year-old freelance developer based mostly in Antwerp, Belgium, with a level in Multimedia Know-how and over a decade of expertise crafting digital experiences. Early in my profession, I took a daring step and moved to New York Metropolis to hitch the inventive company Your Majesty as a front-end developer — a launchpad that allowed me to work on high-profile initiatives for world manufacturers like BMW and Spotify.
After a yr within the U.S., I returned dwelling to be nearer to household and buddies and continued refining my expertise with famend companies comparable to Construct in Amsterdam, Good day Monday, Watson DG, Exo Ape, and Studio 28K. Through the years, I’ve had the privilege of collaborating with top-tier inventive groups on initiatives for shoppers together with Amazon, Apple, Disney+, Mammut, Sony, WeTransfer, and extra.
At this time, as an unbiased developer, I companion with companies around the globe to ship design and motion-driven digital experiences. Outdoors of labor, you’ll usually discover me path working, taking part in golf, or exploring the outside by way of my ardour for panorama and nature images.
Featured work
WRK Timepieces – Superior Horology Engineering
WRK Timepieces is famend for its dedication to crafting luxurious timepieces. Their artisans craft each bit with distinctive care, combining conventional craftsmanship with cutting-edge innovation. Using premium supplies comparable to titanium and DLC (Diamond-Like Carbon), WRK Timepieces produces watches that embody precision engineering and timeless class. For his or her web site, I labored with 28K Studio and their superb workforce of designers.
I developed a product web page for WRK’s newest timepiece, utilizing immersive 3D scroll-triggered animations to disclose options just like the precision-engineered motion, Flying Tourbillon, and Double-wishbone System. The fluid, interactive sequences let customers discover the watch in wealthy element from each angle, whereas a seamless scrolling circulation highlights its design, supplies, and craftsmanship in a premium, minimalist model true to the WRK model.
Constructed with Vue/Nuxt, SCSS, TypeScript, GSAP, Storyblok for content material, and Vercel for quick, dependable internet hosting.
Mammut – Digital Flagship Retailer
Mammut is a Swiss premium outside model identified for its high-performance gear and attire, combining revolutionary design with over 160 years of alpine heritage to equip adventurers for essentially the most demanding environments.
From idea to launch, Construct in Amsterdam collaborated carefully with Mammut to create their new digital flagship retailer, united by a shared imaginative and prescient for high quality. We set a recent inventive route for life-style and product images, shifting towards a extra emotional purchasing expertise.
The mobile-first design system meets WCAG 2.1 accessibility requirements, making certain usability for all. To focus on the story behind each product, we designed editorial modules that encourage deeper exploration with out overshadowing commerce.
Constructed with Subsequent.js for responsive, high-performance interfaces, the platform integrates Contentful as a headless CMS, Algolia for lightning-fast search, and a customized PIM for real-time product information.
Exo Ape – Portfolio
Exo Ape is a digital design studio that crops the flag on the intersection of expertise, digital branding and content material creation. For over a decade their workforce has had the privilege of working with world manufacturers and galvanizing startups to inform brand-led tales and form digital identities.
I’ve collaborated with the Exo Ape workforce on quite a few initiatives and had the privilege of contributing to their new studio web site. Their focus persistently lies in sturdy design and bringing websites to life by way of participating movement design. Working carefully with Rob Smittenaar, I developed a sturdy basis utilizing Vue/Nuxt and created a backend-for-frontend API layer that streamlined information utilization inside the frontend app.
The challenge makes use of Vue/Nuxt for a dynamic frontend, SCSS for modular styling, and GSAP for easy animations and transitions. Content material is managed with Storyblok, and the positioning is hosted on Vercel for quick, dependable supply.
Columbia Footage – 100 Years Anniversary
Celebrating a century of cinema – In honor of Columbia Footage’ a centesimal anniversary, I labored with Sony Footage, Exo Ape and Watson DG to create a century-filled digital expertise and quiz. By this, we took guests on a journey, not solely by way of leisure historical past, but in addition by way of a customized path of self-discovery serving to followers uncover the movies and tv exhibits which have formed them essentially the most.
To be able to create a uniquely particular person expertise, we carried out a strategic backend improvement to maintain the journey unique, dynamic, and various for each consumer – regardless of what number of occasions they return. This, together with a various mixture of visuals and questions, created a recent and interesting expertise for everybody. The property and questions are sourced from an in depth database of movies, TV exhibits, and actors.
Every run by way of the quiz presents the customer with eight interactive questions that step by step change based mostly on their responses. The inventive workforce developed a design system that includes 5 interactive mechanics — Circles, This or That, Slider, Rotator, and Drag and Drop — to current quiz questions in an enticing manner, encouraging customers to pick out solutions by way of enjoyable, dynamic interactions.
With titles, genres, and visuals from 100 years of movie and tv, we had been capable of tailor the expertise round every reply. For instance, if the quiz finds that the consumer leans towards horror, extra questions will probably be horror-themed. In the event that they lean towards 80s movies, extra choices will faucet into nostalgia.
After diving into Columbia’s 100 years and finishing the quiz, guests had been offered with a customized shareable by way of an automated asset generator. This asset — accompanied with a variety of social sharing choices — performed an essential position in sustaining engagement and enthusiasm all through the marketing campaign and past.
The challenge’s frontend was constructed with Vue/Nuxt, SCSS, and GSAP for dynamic interfaces, modular styling, and easy animations. The backend makes use of Node, Specific, and Canvas to generate the shareable asset.
Basic Electrical – Innovation Barometer
Each two years, Basic Electrical surveys the world’s main innovators to discover the way forward for innovation. The findings are offered within the World Innovation Barometer, a biannual marketing campaign created in collaboration with Little Pink Robotic.
The inventive workforce developed a futuristic visible system for the marketing campaign, based mostly on a contemporary summary 3D design model. Images and live-action video had been mixed with 3D animations and illustrations to create a wealthy visible expertise.
The challenge was constructed utilizing Vue for a reactive and component-driven frontend, mixed with Stylus for environment friendly and scalable styling. For easy, performant animations, GSAP was built-in to deal with advanced transitions and scroll-triggered results, enhancing the general consumer expertise.
Additional: Images Portfolio 2.0 sneak peek
I’m excited to share that I’m at the moment collaborating with Barend Eijkenduijn and Clay Boan on the following model of my images portfolio. This upcoming Model 2.0 will probably be greater than only a refreshed assortment of my work — it can additionally embody a completely built-in print store. By this new platform, you’ll be capable of browse my images, choose your favorites, and customise your prints with a variety of choices, together with numerous sizes, paper sorts, and framing types. Our purpose is to create a seamless and satisfying expertise, making it simpler than ever to deliver a bit of my images into your house or workspace. We’re working in direction of an official launch by the top of this yr, and I can’t wait to share it with you.
Remaining Ideas
As a developer, I consider that curiosity and consistency are important to rising on this discipline — however so is making time to discover, experiment, and create private ardour initiatives. Sharing that work can open surprising doorways.
Many because of Codrops and Manoela for this chance — it’s an actual honor. Codrops has lengthy been one in all my favourite sources, and it’s performed a giant position in my very own studying journey.
Yow will discover extra of labor on my portfolio, Twitter and LinkedIn.
