Julius Yanik
Senior Product Designer at Plain
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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RockstarJulius Yanik is a Senior Product Designer based in Berlin with a 14-year track record of shaping clear, functional digital experiences across startups and major tech firms including Microsoft, GitHub-associated projects, Wunderlist/6Wunderkinder, and Shareup. He blends product-led thinking with refined UI craft, having led design at Shareup and now driving product design at Plain. Julius is comfortable translating complex workflows into simple, elegant interfaces and has experience across both consumer and enterprise contexts. His background includes long-tenured roles that suggest deep domain knowledge in productivity and collaboration tools. Notably, he pairs a designer’s eye for detail with product leadership—helping teams align on outcomes, not just aesthetics. Based in Berlin, he brings a pragmatic, user-centered approach informed by years of iterating at scale.
5 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (20)
sass-framework10
json10
octicons10
meta10
css10
bem10
rails10
spacing10
bootstrap-icons10
svg10
jekyll10
asset-pipeline10
nodejs10
scalable10
typography10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (4)
Juliusschaeper/primitives
Jun 2021 - Mar 2022
Color, typography, and spacing primitives in json.
Contributions:5 pushes, 3 branches in 9 months
javascriptspacingprimitivestypographyjson
primer/primitives
Jun 2021 - Mar 2022
Color, typography, and spacing primitives in json.
Contributions:17 reviews, 57 commits, 44 PRs in 9 months
javascriptspacingprimitivestypographyjson
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