Sebastian Riedi
User Experience Architect at Zeix AG
Arbon, Thurgau, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolSebastian Riedi is a User Experience Architect based in Arbon, Switzerland, with 19 years of creative and technical experience spanning print, video, web, product and game design. He currently shapes digital products at Zeix AG while co-founding indie game studio Zeitglas, blending UX rigor with playful systems thinking. Sebastian’s background as a mediamatiker and game design graduate gives him a rare mix of hands-on production skills and conceptual design thinking, from video editing and e-learning to interactive prototypes. He contributes to open source—enhancing the widely-used DokuWiki engine with backend features and toolbar extensibility—demonstrating practical PHP/system-level experience. Known for turning cross-disciplinary briefs into usable, engaging products, he excels at bridging design, development and content workflows. Colleagues describe him as a creative generalist who brings both craft-level execution and strategic product insight.
19 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Game Design, A, Bachelor's degree, Game Design, A at Zürcher Hochschule der KünsteEFZ mit BMS, Mediamatiker, 4.7 / 5.3, EFZ mit BMS, Mediamatiker, 4.7 / 5.3 at SBW Neue Medien AG
German, English, French
Github Skills (6)
plugin-development10
php10
event-handling10
dokuwiki10
wiki-engine10
html8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dokuwiki/dokuwiki
Feb 2007 - Feb 2007
The DokuWiki Open Source Wiki Engine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Sebastian contributed to the DokuWiki engine by implementing new features and modifying existing functionality. Their work included adding a helper plugin, enhancing the info plugin to provide more detailed information, and integrating events to improve the system's extensibility. Furthermore, the user made changes to the toolbar, defining new toolbar options, and incorporating an event for customizing the toolbar. These changes likely involved PHP and potentially other technologies utilized within the DokuWiki ecosystem.
wiki-enginetiddlywikiphpmediawiki-extensioneagle
zeixcom/ui-element
Mar 2024 - Mar 2025
UIElement - the "look ma, no JS framework!" library bringing signals-based reactivity to Web Components
Contributions:12 releases, 1 review, 89 PRs in 1 year
reactivitysignalsui-elementweb-components
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