Florian Schulz
Principal UX Engineer at ZHdK Zürcher Hochschule der Künste
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolFlorian Schulz is a Principal UX Engineer based in Zurich with 15 years of experience designing and building polished, usable interfaces across product and agency environments. He combines hands-on front-end development with strategic UX leadership at Frontify while teaching UI design and prototyping at ZHdK, bridging academia and industry. His background spans senior interaction roles at Ginetta and Behance and ongoing freelance and studio work, giving him a practical understanding of both product teams and client-driven projects. Florian contributes to open-source tooling for designers—most notably improving Sketch style inventory workflows—demonstrating a focus on making design systems and tooling more reliable and user-friendly. Known for tightening the loop between design and implementation, he excels at turning typography, interaction patterns and visual systems into robust, developer-friendly components.
15 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Interfacedesign, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Interfacedesign at Fachhochschule Potsdam
Github Skills (5)
javascript10
sketch-plugin10
color-management9
ui-design9
file-handling7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
getflourish/Sketch-Style-Inventory
Aug 2014 - Aug 2019
Review, import & export styles in Sketch.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:96 commits, 7 PRs, 70 pushes in 5 years
Contributions summary:Florian primarily contributed to the `sketch-style-inventory` repository by enhancing its functionality and improving the user experience. Their work included improvements to selection plugins, involving a new folder structure and the addition of an inventory configuration. They also focused on improving sorting and fixing issues related to color inventory updates, ensuring a more stable and efficient workflow. Furthermore, the user added features, such as the ability to name color swatches and improved overall user interface.
exportreviewsketchappsketch-appstyles
Frontify/sketch
Feb 2022 - Sep 2022
Frontify Sketch Plugin
Contributions:3 releases, 325 commits, 4 PRs in 7 months
sketch-appsketchappsketchsketch-pluginfrontify
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