Blog

Sometimes I jot down some stuff for the fun of it. I can’t imagine that someone would like to read it, but I like to write.

Smashing Conference New York
13-10-2024
Conference, Sendcloud
Attending the Smashing Magazine Conference in New York was an incredible experience! I had the pleasure of connecting with inspiring professionals in the UX design industry and gaining fresh perspectives on thoughtful design and innovation. One of the highlights was
Last.fm integration
18-01-2023
API, HTML, JavaScript
From now on you can see when I am listening to music.
UX Insight Festival 2022
31-05-2022
Conference, research
UX Insight is the largest UX Research symposium in Europe where UX professionals can meet and share knowledge. The theme of this years festival was 'Growth'. I've written down my 4 kay learnings from the conference.
Celebrating success with illustrations
01-04-2022
Adobe Illustrator, CM.com, Illustration
CM.com's platform has a professional and minimal look all the way through. Most of the front-end was build solely by engineers with the best intentions, resulting very factional and soul-less situations that can benefit from a touch of human-ness. Result
Lego Social Icons
16-07-2020
Adobe Illustrator, Icons, Lego
I have always been crazy about Lego, and have always wanted to make my own Lego-style icons. It was fun afternoon playing with digital Lego tiles, with some fun challanges for some icons. I am incredibly happy with the result.
Scrollvideos WordPress plugin
28-06-2020
JavaScript, PHP, plugin
Make videos on your website play automatically as you scroll past them. It is awesome!
DIY Ambilight
11-06-2020
Arduino, DIY, Processing
I decided my home desk needed some pimping. And what is better than slapping some fancy RGB lights on that badboy? I was sure it should be possible to make my own Ambilight on my second screen, so I got
Doctoral Defence
11-09-2019
PhD
On September 11, 2019 I have successfully defended my doctoral dissertation Designing for the Internet of Lighting in front of the doctoral committee. The members of the committee were: prof.dr. A. Brombacher (chairman), prof.dr.ir. J.H. Eggen (promotor), dr.ir. H.A. van
Thesis: Designing for the Internet of Lighting
12-08-2019
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign, Adobe Photoshop
Self-initiated project, printed by Gildeprint I have had a great time designing my PhD thesis. I was looking for a graphic style that illustrates the complexity of IoT systems without feeling cluttered (a core theme in my PhD project). A
Dagboek van mijn Vader
04-07-2019
Adobe Indesign, Adobe Photoshop, book
'Dagboek van mijn Vader' is a touching story about my grandfather, a young watchmaker during the second World War in my hometown Helmond. When my father retired, he finally had time to read my grandfather's diary that he kept during