Nico Hagenburger
Lead Designer Digital Products For People At Train Stations
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolNico Hagenburger is a Berlin-based design systems leader with 16 years of experience crafting accessible digital products and pattern libraries for large organizations, currently leading design for people at train stations at DB InfraGO. He combines hands-on front-end engineering (Sass, JavaScript, Web Components) with strategic DesignOps and documentation work to scale consistent experiences across digital and physical touchpoints. A prolific open-source contributor, Nico has improved widely used tools like Middleman and Compass and helped advance living style guide tooling for better developer-designer collaboration. His background includes leading design systems at HERE and Deutsche Bahn’s WIFI@DB, plus entrepreneurial consulting through HAGENBURGER GmbH. Beyond product work he designs typefaces and creates public art with StationWalls, bringing a rare typographic and transit-focused sensibility to UX problems. He’s known for integrating non-digital artifacts into design systems and automating workflows that speed delivery while preserving craftsmanship.
16 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Hochschule Mannheim
German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (25)
javascript10
rails-i18n10
video-conferencing10
static-site-generator10
css10
rspec10
sass10
event-sourcing10
ruby10
ember-i18n10
event-emitter10
front-end-development10
codec10
conferencing10
html10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
rubyberlin/code-of-conduct
Nov 2013 - Nov 2022
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 189 commits, 91 PRs in 9 years
Contributions summary:Nico primarily focused on front-end development, implementing UI and design changes. They added initial design elements, incorporated a list of user groups and conferences, and added a responsive design for iOS. The user also added functionality for adding user groups/conferences, including linking to Twitter accounts and escaping HTML of supporters. Furthermore, they implemented internationalization for the website.
conferenceseventsusergroupscode-of-conduct
livingstyleguide/livingstyleguide
Dec 2012 - Apr 2019
Easily create front-end style guides with Markdown and Sass/SCSS.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:18 releases, 1304 commits, 46 PRs in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Nico focused on enhancing the front-end functionality of the style guide. They implemented features to list variables from Sass files, import variables, and added support for HTML and JavaScript examples within the documentation. The changes reflect a focus on improving the documentation and presentation of the project's styling components.
sasscssstyle-guidesfront-endscss
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