Summary
Bert Timmermans is a Design Lead with 11+ years of product and interaction design experience, currently shaping user experiences for Bitcoin.com’s Verse and stewarding design systems across teams. He combines hands-on craft—having created and maintained his own privacy-first iOS journaling app, Momently—with strategic leadership in building scalable design processes and mentoring designers. Bert has led cross-disciplinary work at startups and enterprises alike, from Earth-observation platform AxelGlobe to prototyping tools at Goodpatch, always emphasizing user-first principles and attention to detail. He thrives on turning complex product challenges into elegant, usable interfaces while accelerating team maturity through systems and process improvements. Based in Chiyoda, Japan, he brings a global perspective and a consistent track record of shipping polished, research-informed digital products. An unusual detail: he balances leadership roles with solo product ownership—continuously shipping his passion project alongside enterprise-scale design work.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Audiovisual Arts, Bachelor's degree, Audiovisual Arts at Katholieke Hogeschool Limburg