David Van Ballegooijen
Freelance Designer at Self-employed
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolDavid Van Ballegooijen is a seasoned UI/UX and product designer with 11+ years of experience crafting user-centered interfaces for startups and established brands, including Cloud9 IDE (acquired by Amazon), Backbase, eBuddy and projects for Coca‑Cola and DJ Tiësto. He focuses on simplicity, consistency and maintainability, pairing rigorous data-driven decisions and lean methods with a strong taste for detail and ruthless prioritization. As a freelance designer and builder of the GrainLab iOS app, he blends hands-on product design with practical prototyping and usability research. Beyond interfaces he’s passionate about AI prompting, photography, motion graphics and typography, which informs his nuanced visual and interaction work. Colleagues know him for balancing conventions with experimentation and for treating copywriting as a core design tool to improve clarity and conversion.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate in Communication & Publicity Design - Field: Graphic Design Communication & Publicity., Certificate in Communication & Publicity Design - Field: Graphic Design Communication & Publicity. at CIBAP, ZwolleBachelor's Degree (and 90% completed MA course*) Digital Media Design, Bachelor's Degree (and 90% completed MA course*) Digital Media Design at (Art Academy) Hogeschool voor de Kunsten UtrechtHavo Duits Natuurkunde Kunstgeschiedenis & Handvaardigheid, Havo Duits Natuurkunde Kunstgeschiedenis & Handvaardigheid at Cals CollegeMaster of Doodling, Master of Doodling at Montessori school Nieuwegein
English, Dutch, German, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (85)
stylesheets10
css-animations10
cross-browser10
animation9
image9
image-upscaling8
streaming8
css8
super-resolution8
issue-tracking8
openexr8
windows7
architecture7
javascript7
linux7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
davidvb/drophtml
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:191 commits, 190 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
davidvb/Amethyst
Nov 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
tiling-window-managerwindowxmonadtilingmacos
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