Rebuilt a payments dashboard around merchant intent — cutting time-to-first refund by 61% and unifying four legacy surfaces into one.
Available for select projects — Q3
Designing calm, considered digital products.
I'm Aurora — a product designer and front-end developer shaping interfaces that feel inevitable. Ten years of shipping design systems, marketing sites, and complex product flows for teams who care about the details.
- Years shipping
- 10+
- Products launched
- 48
- Client retention
- 92%
About
A designer who writes code, and a developer who sweats the kerning.
- Based inAmsterdam, NL
- FocusProduct & Design Systems
- Time zoneCET (UTC+1)
- EngagementFreelance / Contract
I work at the seam between design and engineering — close enough to the pixels to obsess over a 1px misalignment, close enough to the code to ship it properly.
Over the last decade I've partnered with early-stage founders, Series B product teams, and a handful of agencies. My work tends to start ambiguous and end precise: discovery, flows, prototypes, then a component library the team can actually maintain after I leave.
I care about restraint. Fewer screens, clearer hierarchy, less chrome. The best interface is the one a user never has to think about — and I'd rather spend a week removing than a week adding.
Design
- Figma
- Design Systems
- Prototyping
- Interaction
- Accessibility
Build
- HTML & CSS
- JavaScript
- React
- Tailwind
- Webflow
“Aurora tightened our entire product surface in six weeks. She's the rare designer who hands you a system, not a mockup.” — Priya Raman, VP Product at Northbeam
Selected Work
Projects from the last few years.
A small sample. Full case studies — process, constraints, and outcomes — are available on request.
Identity and packaging for a specialty roaster — a warm, typographic system built to scale across twelve launch SKUs.
A patient intake flow redesigned for clinical reality — accessible by default, WCAG 2.2 AA verified, and 3× faster to complete on mobile.
Marketing site and CMS for an architecture practice — quiet typography, heavy imagery, 98 Lighthouse performance.
A token-driven design system spanning web and native — 240 components, themable, adopted by five product squads in the first quarter.
Specimen site for an independent type foundry — variable-font driven, with a live tester built in vanilla JS.
No projects in this category yet.
Services
How we can work together.
Product Design
End-to-end flows for web and mobile — discovery, wireframes, high-fidelity UI, and a prototype you can put in front of real users.
- Discovery & research
- Flows & wireframes
- Hi-fi UI & prototypes
Design Systems
A single source of truth your team can maintain — tokens, components, documentation, and the governance to keep it alive.
- Audit & inventory
- Tokens & theming
- Component library
Design Engineering
I build what I design. Semantic HTML, responsive CSS, and just enough JavaScript — handed off clean and documented.
- Marketing sites
- Webflow & custom code
- Performance & accessibility
Brand & Identity
Logos, type, and color systems for teams who want a voice that holds up across a deck, a site, and a shipping box.
- Identity systems
- Typography
- Brand guidelines
A simple, four-step process
- Discover
Align on the problem, the constraints, and what success looks like.
- Design
Explore directions fast, then converge on the one worth building.
- Build
Ship it in code — or hand off specs your engineers can run with.
- Refine
Measure, iterate, and document so the system outlives the project.
Contact
Have a project in mind? Let's make it real.
Tell me a little about what you're building. I read every message and reply within two business days — usually sooner.
- Email hello@aurora.design
- Phone +31 20 123 4567
- Elsewhere