Summary
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Top SchoolZeno Kapitein is a product designer based in Amsterdam with seven years of experience shaping delightful, usable interfaces for complex web apps and documentation platforms. He blends hands-on UX research, Figma prototyping, and front-end thinking to take features from discovery to production, sharing ownership of design systems alongside engineers. Zeno has bridged design and code in roles from bootstrapping product design teams at Riverside.fm to owning app and docs UX at GitBook, and he pairs visual polish with attention to micro-interactions, loading states and edge cases. Comfortable writing specs, SQL dashboards and developer-facing docs, he thrives where design decisions must align with engineering realities. Outside product roles he has a background in freelance dev work, cross-platform Flutter experiments and wayfinding, reflecting a curiosity for systems that help people create, work and grow.
7 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
π Bachelor of Science (BSc), Industrial Design, 7.9, π Bachelor of Science (BSc), Industrial Design, 7.9 at Eindhoven University of Technology
π Master of Arts - MA, Digital Experience Design, π Master of Arts - MA, Digital Experience Design at Hyper Island
π VWO (Pre-university secondary education), Nature and Technology, 8.5, π VWO (Pre-university secondary education), Nature and Technology, 8.5 at Lyceum aan Zee
German, English, Dutch