Summary
Björn Ganslandt is a Vienna-based freelance frontend developer with 12 years of experience crafting fast, beautiful and sustainable websites that bridge UX and engineering. His background as an art director and UX consultant gives him a rare combination of visual design sensibility and hands-on frontend expertise, enabling pixel-accurate, user-centered implementations. He has taught usability and interaction design at university level and led digital product initiatives for retailers and cultural publishers, bringing both academic rigor and commercial pragmatism to projects. As an independent practitioner since 2019, he focuses on performance, accessibility and maintainable code while collaborating closely with product and design teams. An unexpected strength is his editorial experience in radio and publishing, which sharpens his storytelling approach to UX and content-driven interfaces.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Design theory, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Design theory at JLU Gießen
Magister, Technik-Kommunikation, Magister, Technik-Kommunikation at RWTH Aachen
German, English, Spanish