Tools are faster but craft is still beautiful, if you want to bring your brand to life lets chat.

Lisbon April 2026

Illustrated portrait of Hendri van Niekerk

Wednesday, Nov 4

Designing and building things for humans.

I ask annoying questions, and suggest you’re wrong.

I design it, build it and the systems underneath.

Bettr Stickers

A die-cut holographic sticker pack for Bettr. White line art on near-black, the foil does the colouring.

GhostDraft Icons

An icon and illustration system for GhostDraft’s customer communications platform, laid out as a drafting canvas that never ends.

Shhhcribble

Private, on-device voice transcription for Apple platforms. Parakeet and CoreML, nothing leaves the machine.

For Font Sake

A type foundry that runs in the browser. Pick a font, stack treatments on it, tune them live, and download a real installable file.

Some Friends,

What a wonderful bunch,

How I Work

There is no one size fits all process, we do what’s needed.

How I Work

There is no one size fits all process, we do what’s needed.

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Design system

Foundations

Colours

Typography

Spacing

Components

Patterns

Guidelines

Colours

Typography

AaSpace Grotesk
Fragment Mono

Buttons

PrimarySecondaryTertiary

Cards

ProjectsNew

+ empty state

One system, every surfaceGet started

LaunchNow in dark mode

@yourbrand

I design and build the thing. The prototype is the spec.

snake0

click to play

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Frequently Asked Questions

What does a design engineer actually do?

Can I hire you?

What is this page?

What does a design engineer actually do?

Can I hire you?

What is this page?

Designing and building things for humans.

Some Friends,

What a wonderful bunch,

How I Work

How I Work

Frequently Asked Questions

Still here? Let’s talk.

Still here? Let’s talk.