Nico Druif
Freelance UX & Interaction Designer, For Positive Social Impact at Druif Design
North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolNico Druif is a freelance UX and interaction designer with nearly two decades of experience crafting user-friendly tools for social impact, primarily for (semi)government, not-for-profits and citizen initiatives. He specializes in turning complex web applications—like open data well-being dashboards and citizen participation platforms—into intuitive, usable services through iterative workshops, prototyping and hands-on visual design. Comfortable across service design, user research, interaction and UI design, he collaborates closely with developers and considers indirect stakeholders to get implementation details right. Based in North Holland, he often pairs with fellow freelancer Rob Maijers to combine empathetic, user-centered design with systems thinking and analytical rigor. Beyond client work he volunteers organizing IxDA Netherlands peer meetings and even tends a food forest, reflecting a practical commitment to community and sustainability.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Art and Technology – interaction design content & management communities semantic web, Bachelor of Art and Technology – interaction design content & management communities semantic web at HKU (Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht)Atheneum Nederlands Engels Duits Wiskunde B Tekenen Geschiedenis, Atheneum Nederlands Engels Duits Wiskunde B Tekenen Geschiedenis at Oscar Romero te Hoorn
English, German
Github Skills (22)
docker10
wfs10
wms10
data-explorer10
mapserver10
bag7
codebase6
static-site5
jekyll4
api4
django3
django-rest-framework3
project-management3
styled-components2
leaflet2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Amsterdam/mapserver
Sep 2017 - Dec 2019
Mapserver configuration for various public datasets
Contributions:152 commits, 23 PRs, 141 pushes in 2 years 3 months
mapserverwfswmsdockerteam-datadiensten
NicoDruif/nlds-surf-aii
Apr 2025 - Sep 2025
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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