Slide · 01 — Home

Design engineer. Amsterdam.
Available for select projects from June.

I design and build interfaces with the same hands. Brand systems, product surfaces, and the connective tissue between them.

Now Booked through May. Replies on Tuesdays.
Slide · 02 — Projects

Selected work, 2023 — 2024.

  1. 01 Know Your Crypto 2024
  2. 02 Cyber Cypher 2023
  3. 03 Boat Buddies 2023
  4. 04 CSS Piano 2023
  5. 05 Belasting form — NS style 2023
  6. 06 Joke Generator 2023
Slide · 03 — Talks

Talks and writing.

Config · Amsterdam · Apr 2025

Designing in code without losing the drawing.

CSS Day · Amsterdam · Jun 2024

Material on the screen — texture as a tool.

Awwwards Conf · Berlin · Oct 2023

Brand systems for one-person studios.

Field Notes · Essay · Mar 2023

Against the seamless.

Slide · 04 — About
Stijn Zwaard, from behind, on the balcony.
Self-portrait · Amsterdam · 2025

Stijn Zwaard. Designer who codes.

Digital designer and CMD student in Amsterdam. Trained in graphic design first, then picked up code at CMD — that is where it clicked. I work on UX/UI, front-end, and motion. Off-screen: games and friends.

Internships at Exterion Media and Savvy during my media design diploma — animations, mockups, websites. Stayed at Savvy as a junior digital designer through the holidays. Now I split time between CMD at HvA and freelance work: sites and product surfaces for a handful of clients a year.

Design Figma · Photoshop · Illustrator
Code HTML · CSS · JavaScript
Motion After Effects · Premiere Pro · CSS animation
  1. 2023 — Now Freelance digital designer. Client work in UX/UI and front-end.
  2. 2021 — 2023 Communication & Multimedia Design, HvA Amsterdam.
  3. 2019 — 2021 Graphic design diploma. Foundations in visual communication.