Christopher Pietsch
Freelance Interaction Designer & Developer at chrispie.com
Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Pietsch is a freelance interaction designer and developer with 14 years of experience turning complex data into intuitive, human-centered interfaces across startups, research labs, and his own studio. He blends design, research, and code to build interactive dashboards, visual analytics, and AI-augmented prototypes that weave LLMs and generative models into everyday tools. As a creative technologist and researcher at AI+D Lab and previously at UCLab and SMART, he focuses on making complexity feel invisible so users remember insights, not software. An active open-source contributor, he has improved front-end UI elements and geovisualization examples in projects like the unfolding library, demonstrating practical care for mapping and visualization detail. Based in Germany and fluent across design and applied computer science, he also experiments with ML, electronics, and experimental interfaces, bringing a maker’s curiosity to production-grade prototypes. Colleagues value him for translating dense signals into actionable experiences and for advocating open collaboration across design and code.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Interface Design, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Interface Design at Fachhochschule PotsdamApplied Computer Science, Applied Computer Science at Fachhochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin
English, German
Github Skills (13)
file-processing10
mappings10
parallel-processing10
multiprocessing10
preprocessing10
ui-design10
post-processing10
language-processing10
document-processing10
data-processing10
java9
javas9
glsl8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
tillnagel/unfolding
Apr 2012 - Oct 2015
A library to create interactive maps and geovisualizations in Processing and Java
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:45 commits, 4 pushes, 1 comment in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributed to the user interface aspects of the `unfolding` library. Their work focused on creating UI elements such as a compass and a mask for the map visualizations, adding new examples. The user also updated the marker styles, including the addition of labeled markers with improved visual presentation and functionality, specifically in the LabeledMarker and ImageMarker examples. They also made changes to the map display to improve the visual of masks.
cartographymappingmapjavakml
hfg-gmuend/reshapeforum.hfg-gmuend.de
Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
Website for the 2023 KITeGG Summerschool "Reshape - Forum for Artificial Intelligence in Art and Design"
Contributions:2 PRs, 68 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 11 months
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