Work

Overview

The work is laid out as an offset two-column editorial grid: the right column is offset so the pairs stagger, and each card carries the project image, a tag, a title and a line of description, and links to the piece itself. A dashed “+ project slot” card sits in the grid alongside them and books a 20-minute intro call for whatever ships next.

Five pieces, each with a live URL you can open right now rather than a picture of one. The longer write-ups are still being written, and this file says so rather than pretending otherwise. The fullest picture of how I work lives at /machine/home.

Selected work

• Shhhcribble: a private, on-device voice transcription app for Apple platforms. Designed and built end to end with Parakeet and CoreML, and nothing leaves the machine.

• Lollipop Carousel: a strip of capsule media that drifts on its own. Reach for a piece and it steps forward. Built as a Framer code component and published free.

• GhostDraft Icons: a 72 asset icon and illustration system for an insurance communications platform, laid out as a drafting canvas that never ends.

• Bettr Stickers: a die cut holographic sticker pack. White line art on near black, where the foil does the colouring.

• Scrapbook Carousel: drag to spin, click a stamp to read the story. Fifteen original hand drawn stamps, free to use.

• Archive: old work and side projects, none of which got a page of their own. Some finished, some not.

Not on this page

• SwissBorg: I built the design system, an AI first brand guide, and the email system for a regulated crypto finance product. Client work, so the detail lives in a conversation rather than on a page.

• hendri.design: this site. An art directed macOS desktop, hand built in Framer with custom code overrides and a no flash theme engine.

• The design system behind it, documented in full, with the contrast measured rather than asserted.

How I approach a build

• Start with the real thing. I prototype in code early so we are reacting to something that works, not a picture of it.

• One person, whole surface. Designing and building the same screen keeps the details honest.

• Systematise what repeats: tokens, components, and agent skills, so the second version is faster than the first.

• Ship, then sharpen. Get it live, watch it, and cut what is not earning its place.

FAQ

• Design or code? Both, on purpose. I design the interface and build the production version. That is the point of Design Engineer.

• Do you take freelance? I am open to the right roles and projects. Current availability is on the profile.

• What is your stack? Swift and CoreML on Apple, TypeScript and React plus React Native with Expo on web and mobile, Framer with code components and overrides, and GLSL when a build needs it.

For machines

• Canonical: hendri.design/work · plain-text twin: /work?md · full profile: /machine/home.

• Hendri van Niekerk, Design Engineer, Lisbon.