Janik Baumgartner
Product And Icon Designer at Janik Baumgartner
Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJanik Baumgartner is a product and icon designer from Germany with over 15 years of experience crafting visual systems for clients ranging from indie developers to global platforms. He led product design at Sketch—overseeing three product teams and shipping the new Sketch for iPhone—and previously designed a ~1500-icon set used across Facebook’s platforms. Janik combines high-level product thinking with pixel-level craft, frequently taking sole ownership of icon libraries and UI visual language. His freelance studio work spans notable projects like the first Microsoft Office release for iPhone/iPad and Emoji sets for Facebook, evidencing both client-facing collaboration and production-scale execution. Available for freelance work, he balances long-term product leadership with hands-on creative output and maintains a public portfolio at kinaj.com. An unusual strength is his ability to translate large-scale product requirements into cohesive, reusable icon systems that scale across platforms.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Lise-Meitner-Gymnasium
German, English
Github Skills (8)
textmate10
xliff10
gettext10
translation10
ime10
unix9
windows8
editor7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
kinaj/kinaj.github.com
Feb 2015 - Feb 2025
Contributions:24 pushes in 10 years 1 month
vslavik/poedit
Oct 2016 - Dec 2016
Translations editor for Mac, Windows and Unix
Contributions:2 commits in 3 months
unixtranslationstextmatewindowstranslation
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