Wouter De Bres
Founder & Product Designer at Bres Design
Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolWouter De Bres is a founder and product designer with 15 years of experience blending psychology, information design, and hands-on software work to create simple, human-centered digital products. He has led design teams and product strategy from early-stage startups to scale-ups, including co-founding Gibbon (acquired by Degreed) and serving as VP Product Design at Degreed. As founder of Bres Design he now shapes end-to-end product experiences, drawing on a background in social psychology and international marketing to turn complex user needs into intuitive interfaces. A practical maker as well as strategist, he contributes front-end UI improvements to open-source projects like django-userena, demonstrating attention to typographic and interaction detail. Based in the Netherlands, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with a designer’s focus on clarity and measurable user outcomes.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
International Marketing, International Marketing at University of StellenboschMaster's degree, Social Psychology, Master's degree, Social Psychology at Leiden UniversityVWO, VWO at Christelijk Atheneum Adriaen PauwInformation Design, Degree, Information Design, Degree at University of the Arts London
Github Skills (6)
css10
templater10
template-engine10
django10
front-end-development9
html9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
bread-and-pepper/django-userena
Jul 2010 - Feb 2011
Accounts for Django made beautifully simple
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Wouter primarily contributed to the front-end and UI aspects of the Django-based userena project. Their commits focused on styling templates using CSS, incorporating the Droid Sans font and customizing the appearance of various elements such as the navigation, forms, and account details. Furthermore, the user made adjustments to the template structure by adding navigation elements and enhancing the user experience.
djangodjango-projectpythonaccounts
wouterdebres/product-design-pschology
Oct 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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