Markus Ölhafen
Hamburg, Germany
Summary
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RockstarMarkus Ölhafen is a Product Designer and front-end developer based in Hamburg with 11 years of experience blending UX sensibility with hands-on coding. He focuses on crafting beautiful interfaces and coded prototypes, turning design intent into polished, interactive experiences. Markus contributes to open-source UI tooling—notably improving Alva’s styling, layout, and UX shortcuts—to make living prototypes more usable for designers and developers. His work emphasizes the details that elevate usability, from typography and color systems to responsive preview controls. Comfortable across the design-to-code gap, he brings a pragmatic eye for aesthetics and developer-friendly implementations.
11 years of coding experience
German, English
Github Skills (10)
system10
javascript10
component-kit10
styled-components10
react10
ui-components10
css9
typescript4
typescripts4
typescript-types4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
meetalva/alva
Dec 2017 - Jun 2018
Create living prototypes with code components.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 19 PRs, 44 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Markus primarily focused on enhancing the UI and styling of the Alva application. Their commits included modifying color values, adding a font family to global styles, and changing the app's background and layout. Furthermore, the user updated the styling of the preview resize handles and introduced shortcuts for switching pages, enhancing the user's experience. These changes were implemented by modifying existing components, and adding new menu features.
reactprototypesdesigndesign-systemtypescript
markusoelhafen/100-meeple
Dec 2017 - Dec 2018
100 meeple – Boardgame Reviews in 100 words
Contributions:13 PRs, 93 pushes, 17 branches in 11 months
wordsboardgame
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