Daan Louter
Head Of Product at Flourish
Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolDaan Louter is a product and design leader with 12 years of experience building data-driven storytelling tools and interactive journalism. As Head of Product at Flourish — which he helped shape from first hire to platform leader — he blends interaction design, front-end engineering and newsroom empathy to make complex data visualisation accessible to journalists and non-technical users. His background at The Guardian and early work in music and media gave him a strong editorial sensibility and a knack for turning stories into interactive experiences. Based in Rotterdam, he pairs practical product leadership with hands-on design craft and a curiosity for interdisciplinary approaches (including industrial design and language studies) that informs Flourish’s UX and template ecosystem.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Propeadeutic degree, Journalism, Propeadeutic degree, Journalism at Fontys HogescholenBachelor's degree, Communication & Multimedia Design, Bachelor's degree, Communication & Multimedia Design at Rotterdam University of Applied SciencesTurkish Language and Literature, Turkish Language and Literature at King's College LondonIndustrial and Product Design, Industrial and Product Design at Central Saint Martins, University of The Arts London
Github Skills (24)
slider-component9
barchart8
skeleton7
boilerplate6
sdk6
circles6
frontend3
react3
webpack3
genesis3
popup2
javascript2
svelte2
kiln2
interactive2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kiln/template-line-chart-race
Apr 2017 - Nov 2019
Horserace chart template for Flourish
Contributions:45 PRs, 147 pushes, 49 branches in 2 years 7 months
flourishchartchart-template
kiln/example-bar-chart
Apr 2018 - Nov 2022
Example of a Flourish bar chart
Contributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 4 years 7 months
barchart
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