Designer · 🏳️🌈 · Temporary and undefinable as art · previously @getstarkco and @createdbymad
Frankfurt
Joined December 2010
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III Back to Freelance
The past years have been remarkable. They're filled with gratitude and growth. I'm beyond thankful to have been a part of @createdbymad and @getstarkco and have worked with such unprecedented talent.
I'm equally excited about the next chapters and what they will hold. The next one is all about me going back to freelance. I'm available, hmu!
Though I go back to freelance, I'm still open for other opportunities. Might even launch a thing myself. The weirder and impactful the better. In my 12 years, I have contributed to all parts of the design process: from turning a vision into a start-up to building and managing a design team.
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In case you were wondering what happened to our design recruiting service..
For the past two years, I’ve been partnering with founders to help them build best-in-class design teams. It takes a lot of work to find phenomenal people.
But we also quickly found that “just being a recruiting agency” wasn’t true to self.
It’s time.
For the past year, we’ve been working closely with founders again.
Completely under the radar.
Defining our new approach to bringing design-sensible companies to the world.
The kind of companies that are worth idolising.
Building a design-sensible company requires something more.
We’re a design culture studio as much as we we are a design partner.
We run a deliberately small practice, indexing on what we believe to be the most important competitive advantage in startups today:
Intuition and taste.
ALT PERMANENT word mark in white on a black background.
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Design systems need to emerge organically during the course of designing a product.
If you start by designing common components without understanding how and where (and if) they'll be used, you're prematurely optimizing and limiting your product's aesthetic possibilities.
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I'd like to back a team that aims to productize politics, government, and voting. A bold, high-risk venture with 95%+ chance of failure. But if it succeeds, it will benefit everyone. Would invest up to 500.000 USD/EUR.
Had loads of fun feeding @withdelphi with an absurd amount of personal information and later ask my clone to write an analysis about myself.
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Kino is packed with presets by amazing pros — @prolost, @sandwich, @stalman, @Evanjschneider_ and @kevouthere — giving you beautiful color grades right out of the box.
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As usual, a jam-packed release for the month at @getstarkco. What I'm most stoked about? One of the most requested features ever: Smart Suggestions from your design system library (local or remote) in @figma! (oh and seven additional updates — from design tooling to browsers)
The power of a sophisticated design system cannot be argued, but ensuring that system is continually accessible is critical to the maturity of the software the system supports. Until now? There was no way to do so efficiently, intelligently, and integrated into your design workflow.
Now Stark provides suggestions for fixes straight from your team's system, while continuously informing you where components are out of compliance.
Oh, and these updates are delivered in a beautiful updated UI that's friendly, intuitive, and with increased readability. All in prep for more to come, of course... 😉
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🌸 May Release 🌸
- Smart suggestions from your design system
- Beautiful UI tweaks
- React Native + Accessible Name annotations
- Updated Landmarks
- Filter WCAG Audit results
- Auto-generate alt-text + copy code
- Copy XPath & selector from WCAG audit
Let's dive in! 👇
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1. Understand the problem
2. Determine the complexity
3. Complex? Use lists, content maps, and user flows to help guide the project
4. Complex? Design in low-fidelity (wireframes) to get everyone on same page about the same features
5. Set design direction
6. Present early and often
7. Explore, iterate, and exploit
8. Systematize
Let's dissect each one...
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I'm looking for more long-term clients. Are there any teams taking the time to build humane, considered products out there? Or is everyone just racing towards the next investor presentation?
Please help connect me with the former 🦥🌱
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Superlist 2.0 will be an epic release! Completely revamped mobile app, nested lists, simplified interface, and everything will be blazingly fast. ⚡️ Hope you'll love it! Team is working hard on getting it done.
Blaue Avocados sind bestimmt lecker, aber sicherlich nicht so sehr wie die Möglichkeit so einfach in mehreren Sprachen Alt-Text zu generieren. 🔥
🥑 Potential customer in a demo asked if @getstarkco can generate multi-language (we have 5) alt-text for something as random as a "blue avocado" picture.
Spun it up on the fly — with 3 options per language.
ALT Figma interface with an image of a blue avocado and a brown pit in the center, next to the Stark interface displaying alt-text suggestions for the image in Spanish.
ALT Figma interface with an image of a blue avocado and a brown pit in the center, next to the Stark interface displaying alt-text suggestions for the image in German.
ALT Figma interface with an image of a blue avocado and a brown pit in the center, next to the Stark interface displaying alt-text suggestions for the image in English.
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Today, the team at @getstarkco released our whitepaper after two years of market and customer research! 🎉 I put together a short video with an executive summary of the work on our new approach and model.
loom.com/share/83c610f948c04…
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Today is a special day for me – we’re releasing @Superlist 1.0 – the new home for all your lists. Get it now for Mac, iOS, Android & Web: superlist.com
When we sold Wunderlist in 2015 to Microsoft, I felt broken. We put so much hard work and passion into building the software, but I didn’t feel like we’d actually finished the job. Our vision has always been to build the ultimate to-do app that works perfectly for your personal and professional projects. Wunderlist was simple, beautiful, and easy – but never optimized for teams.
When Microsoft took over my team and relaunched Wunderlist under its new brand, Microsoft ToDo, I tried to use it, but it just wasn’t for me. So I tried buying Wunderlist back but didn’t succeed. That was the day I decided to found Superlist – the real successor product to Wunderlist.
Our team worked incredibly hard on Superlist – we are super excited to launch v1.0 today. The product is still early, but we feel the time is right. Our goals for the upcoming months are to make Superlist simpler, more delightful, and incredibly useful and productive for teams.
Thank you to the Superlist team for being patient and really giving their best, especially in the last months. This is the start of a long journey.
We’re super excited and can’t wait for your feedback!
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Before I left my full-time job, I held back from sharing my unfiltered thoughts about the industry.
Authenticity is tough when your paycheck is on the line.
Now that I'm free, my mission is simple: Embrace authenticity, honesty, and radical transparency like never before.
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fugoya.com After 3 years of development, Fugoya finally is live. Innovation in Time Tracking, Invoicing, Proposals, Projects, Tasks. All combined for the freelance professional in a sleek desktop app, every action fully optimized for efficiency.
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The long requested feature, with additional love of course! With our November release, you’re getting:
🔗 Live URL scanning as an asset in Projects
⚙️ Enhanced controls for Admins
🎨 Updates to our contrast checker and engine
Read about it! getstark.co/blog/introducing…
ALT A digital mockup showing three overlapping browser windows against a purple background. The left window displays a website's homepage with text, buttons, and an image of a smiling woman. The center window is a 'Pricing' page with a list of subscription options. The right window shows a 'Latest articles' section with thumbnails of articles about collaboration and meetings on a blog page. In the foreground, a cursor hovers over Stark’s URL scan audit tool displaying the URL with 20 issues with counts of violations and passed checks, and the ability to view reports or run a new scan.