Jan Hassel
User Experience Engineer at IBM
Greater Tubingen Area Germany
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Top SchoolJan Hassel is a User Experience Engineer with nine years of experience blending front-end development, design systems and accessibility at IBM and in academia. He builds user-centered interfaces and rapid coded prototypes for products like IBM AI Governance and Watson Studio, while contributing React component improvements to the high-profile Carbon Design System. As a hands-on practitioner and university lecturer, he teaches design systems, visual design engineering and software collaboration, translating classroom insights back into product work. He leads global front-end communities at IBM and has a track record of coordinating cross-regional events and raising technical visibility on campus. Jan’s background in IoT and mixed reality gives him a practical edge in designing interactions where hardware, data and UI converge. Colleagues describe him as someone who equally speaks the language of designers and engineers, deliberately making technology speak the user’s language.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
A-Level (Abitur), Design and Media Technology, A-Level (Abitur), Design and Media Technology at Kerschensteinerschule ReutlingenBachelor of Arts - BA, Internet of Things - Design of netwoked systems, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Internet of Things - Design of netwoked systems at Hochschule für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Gmünd
German, English
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Github Skills (13)
component-development10
system10
javascript10
scs10
carbon-design-system10
system-design10
sys10
react10
sc10
accessibility9
typescript-types7
typescript7
typescripts7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
carbon-design-system/carbon
Oct 2019 - Jan 2023
A design system built by IBM
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:40 reviews, 100 commits, 149 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jan primarily contributed to the development and enhancement of React components within the Carbon Design System repository. Their work focused on implementing new features, specifically adding a "light" property to the Tile component, and adding a high-contrast type to the Tag component. The user also made multiple updates across different components, including the PasswordInput, Selectable, Radio and Tag components. Finally the user integrated and improved the use of contextual layout tokens across different components.
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janhassel/carbon
Oct 2019 - May 2026
A design system built by IBM
Contributions:515 pushes, 318 branches, 1 tag in 6 years 8 months
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