Michel van Heest
Product Designer at ConvertCalculator
Middelharnis, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolMichel van Heest is a product designer with 9 years of experience crafting user-focused digital products and scaling design processes for startups and SMBs. He builds tools that make creators more effective—most notably Shortcuts.design, a productivity resource reaching 12k–15k+ monthly visitors and a Product Hunt Product of the Day—which he’s currently monetizing and extending with new features. At ConvertCalculator and through his freelance studio Michelvanheest.com he blends hands-on UI/UX, prototyping, and front-end implementation to deliver end-to-end solutions. He’s practiced in leading small design teams, setting up design systems, and turning research into measurable product outcomes, with a cum laude BSc in Communication & Multimedia Design. Outside work he’s an avid road biker, coffee roaster, and perpetual productivity tinkerer, often applying those habits to improve team workflows.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Havo: Economy and Society, Havo: Economy and Society at CSG Prins Maurits MiddelharnisBachelor of Science - BSc, Communication & Multimedia Design, Cum Laude & 10/10 for graduation, Bachelor of Science - BSc, Communication & Multimedia Design, Cum Laude & 10/10 for graduation at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences
Dutch, English
Github Skills (17)
linux9
raycast8
windows8
jekyll6
nunjucks6
eleventy6
javascript6
static-site5
markdown5
ftp-server4
blog-engine4
site-generator4
deployment-automation4
continuous-integration3
continuous-deployment3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
michelvanheest/shortcuts-design-data
Oct 2017 - Dec 2022
Contributions:2 reviews, 516 commits, 116 PRs in 5 years 2 months
michelvanheest/Eva-BotUI
Jun 2018 - Jan 2020
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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