I design and build calm interfaces for health and travel products. Nine years in, the last four writing my own front-end.
Ilse Vos
About
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I’m a product designer in Amsterdam who writes her own front-end. Most days sit between a Figma file and a pull request, and I like work where the two meet: booking flows, design systems, tools people open every day.
Experience
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Nine years, four places. Each one taught me the next thing I needed: drawing, shipping, owning a product, building its parts.
2023 – now
Ostra
Senior product designer
Lead designer for the patient app and its React component library. Booking now takes three screens instead of five.
2020 – 2023
Fennick
Product designer
Owned the itinerary editor from first sketch to launch. Shared trips went from 4% to 31% of plans in a year.
2018 – 2020
Brightwork Studio
Designer and developer
A four-person studio. Designed and built marketing sites and two small apps, and learned to ship my own CSS.
2014 – 2018
BA Interaction design
Art school
Four years of drawing interfaces on paper. Graduated with a study of how people read timetables.
Toolkit
What I bring to a team. Each skill with the place it last earned its keep.
Design
Product strategy
Roadmaps for Ostra booking
Design
Interaction design
The week strip and slot picker
Design
Research
Twelve front-desk shifts
Design
Design systems
64 components in production
Build
React
Ostra components
Build
TypeScript
Every component since 2023
Build
CSS and motion
The slot picker transition
Build
Accessibility
WCAG AA on the patient app
Tools
Figma
Daily
Tools
Framer
This site
Tools
Storybook
The component docs
Tools
Git
Pull requests like anyone else
Ways to work together
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Open to a lead role from March. Until then I take one freelance project at a time.
Kind words
Ilse rebuilt our booking flow and then wrote half of it herself. I have not seen a designer close the gap to production that fast.
Daan Kuipers
Head of product
Ostra
Kind words
She was the reason our engineers liked design reviews. Every proposal came with a prototype that already ran on a phone.
Mira Lindqvist
Engineering lead
Fennick
Kind words
Clear, quick and calm under a deadline. The bakery site still runs on what she set up in six weeks.
Jonas Brand
Founder
Brightwork Studio
Notes
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Writing things down. Short notes on decisions that shipped.
Contact
Amsterdam, CET
Have a product that needs a designer who ships? Say hello.
Open to lead roles from March