Psychologist turned Product Designer. I help startups design simpler digital products. Previously founder @gibbonco, VP design @degreed.

Netherlands
Joined June 2009
Good humans, I wrote a book. Took me 10 yrs. Share it with anyone who wants to understand the minds they're designing for and the mind they're designing with. 40 chapters free to read. πŸ“˜ productdesignpsychology.com ❀️
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My kind of investment portfolio.
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Our happy little camper, surrounded by grey giants.
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Bennie Bus made it to Norway, although very very slowly.
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Yesssss! After 9 months we finally picked up Bennie, our restored 1970 VW T2a. Just in time for our road trip to Norway.
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When you ask AI for a simple design.
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Bennie Bus is almost here. The photo on the right was 9 months ago. The one on the left is today. Turns out restoring a VW bus takes about as long as having a baby.
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Not sure if I can blame AI, but somehow every landing page feels boringly the same nowadays. Not bad, just the same.
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One for the road. One for the dirt. Both equally good for the soul.
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Building the website for my book and creating the illustrations has probably been the most enjoyable part of the project. The site is built with the Hugo static site generator, partly hand-coded and partly with Codex. The illustrations were drawn in Procreate on my iPad.
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They made some good progress on our bus. Our daughters named him Bennie. Hopefully he’ll be ready in time for summer vacation. 🀞
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πŸ—£οΈGood design dies in meetings. Conformity and group polarization mean meetings do not just reveal what a team thinks. They change it. Doubts get filtered out, early opinions get amplified, and the group becomes more certain without getting more right. productdesignpsychology.com/…
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Received some solid feedback on the previous version. Tried to address it in this revised version. β€’ Tighten the kerning β€’ T reads as an F/G and is unbalanced β€’ Make slant/stress angles more consistent β€’ Smooth out wobbly curves β€’ Make stroke weight more consistent
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Good humans! I could use some lettering and kerning help. What’s the one thing you’d change to improve this hand-lettered logo? Any advice is welcome. ❀️
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Today I helped my 9yr old daughters build their first app: Dino Radar. Every time they hear thunder, they think it’s a T-Rex walking nearby. So they came up with a simple idea: a rain radar, but for dinosaurs. A map showing where they’re roaming. wouterdebres.github.io/dino-…
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Letter T exploration
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β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€” πŸ‘€ 62 805 Combined impressions of Linkedin&Twitter Posts β–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆ πŸ“˜ 15 705 Visits on productdesignpsychology.com β–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆ πŸ“– 5 421 People reading chapters β–ˆβ–ˆ β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€” Thank you! πŸ™ ❀️
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My goal is to get this free resource in as many designer/founder/engineering hands as possible. Anyone here that knows how to get this on Hackernews or Reddit? I have no idea what the best practices are or the cloud on those platforms. Any help is appreciated! ❀️
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Is Product Hunt still a thing? Anyone willing to help me launch it on there? What is the best way to that?
Good humans, I wrote a book. Took me 10 yrs. Share it with anyone who wants to understand the minds they're designing for and the mind they're designing with. 40 chapters free to read. πŸ“˜ productdesignpsychology.com ❀️
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