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LinkedIn
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Curriculum Vitae
if you’re into PDFs
Eurico Sá Fernandes
did the code
As a collective, we are able to find outcomes and solutions together. Parta facilitates informed, focussed decision making to support and broaden democratic processes. It allows everyone to contribute to ideas and decisions on various topics.
I redesigned the app over the summer in 2020 and joined the team as their first designer later that same year. We're currently iterating on the product through learnings of usage by organisations and participants alike.
By using a timeline as an interface concept, participants are able to monitor and interact with decision-making processes.
Brand designer Hannah van der Mijle helped us out by creating a fresh identity for an international audience. After she created the foundations, I picked up where she left off.
Together with the devs, I created a strong design system within which we can review every scenario and user flow we can come up with.
We like to know stuff for sure. Usability testing helps with that. Founder Lonneke and I tested multiple hypotheses within our first design.
Together with interaction designer Nikki Buitendijk, I improved the connection between the interfaces and the mental models they're based on.
Sjoerd van Leeuwen created some nifty illustrations and pictograms. Since we want to reach citizens from all walks of life, it's crucial to have the entry level be as low as it can possibly be. Visual recognition through imagery can help with that. We spent the hottest day of the year optimising colours and scannability.
Cas Bertrams
Mathijs Kemp
Lonneke Dikmans
Lucien van der Plaats
Ronald van Luttikhuizen
Martijn van de Zuidwind
Web app + native apps all done by the team at Vennster
Prototyping
Accessibility
Iconography
Visual design
Design system
Expansion of identity
Digital strategy consultation
Interaction concepts & design
UX writing
Social media assets
UX strategy
Usability testing
Information structure
Sjoerd van Leeuwen
Hannah van der Mijle
Tom Kölker for the naming workshop
Jimme Bakker for the identity explorations
Nikki Buitendijk for the very early interaction design sessions
2020 - ongoing — We make better decisions together.
2021 — A serious game about conspiracy thinking and online misinformation.
2021 — A provider of industry-leading digital infrastructure since 2000.
2021 — Vegan Burger Fun, delivered.
2019 — Take a chill pill. Or follow proper yoga classes. I’d go for the second option.
2017 — Finding structure in a festival line-up comprised of 264 films.
2015 — Food that tastes good and does good.
I'm Martijn (NL) (he/him), a digital designer from Utrecht with around ⑦ years of professional experience, focused on visual and interaction design.
Designer at Parta – an app for decision-making processes
Lecturer at Utrecht University of Applied Sciences
Freelance designer – helping out friends and organisations
Digital designer at iO
Digital product designer at Hike One
Digital product designer through secondment at SchaalX
Junior interaction designer at Studio AIRPORT
While I focus on nitpicking interfaces and UX processes, I’ve worked with video, photography and print on a whole bunch of projects.
Collaboration is essential to creating relevant work. In my freelance practice, I experiment with different approaches of collaboration, be it with clients or specialists in related fields.
I’ve developed a strong interest in socially driven projects by being involved in things such as Syr – a restaurant where people with a refugee background and their Dutch colleagues meet, work and learn from each other, and Parta – an app that drives democratic decision making. It's also why I started lecturing at Communication & Multimedia Design in Utrecht. Are you working on a socially driven project? I’m always open to learn more. ☻
Into the Great Wide Open
Amsterdam Art Council
Ministry of Education
Emergence Magazine
Greenpeace
Eurofiber
Kapitaal
Eneco
Pfizer
Parta
eBay
HKU
Interaction design
Visual design
Prototyping
Concept development
Usability testing
Design systems
User research
Iconography
Branding
Kanban
Scrum
GTD
Final Cut Pro X
Affinity’s suite
Adobe’s suite
Keynote
Sketch
Things
Notion
Figma
Miro
Jira (with a face like this: 😤)
GT Zirkon by Grilli Type