A bit about me
I've been a designer and a builder for as long as I can remember, it started with running Minecraft servers as a kid, teaching myself infrastructure, code, and how to make something people actually wanted to use, years before I had the words for any of it. I studied both, and today I hold a master's in Interaction Design and a Design Systems certificate.
My career has led with design, on products used by millions across Flanders. At KBC I design conversations for Kate, their digital assistant on my first stint I designed 186 of them and was the first designer there to push for integrating LLMs into what was then a fully rule-based chatbot, which helped earn a world's-best banking-app award and Belgium's best chatbot (I gave a talk at UX Beers about that transition). In between, a year at VRT MAX designing the streaming experience, I redesigned the player around chapters and highlights and set up an accessibility research framework.
But I never put the technical side down. Under Valderas, which began as a side hustle and is now where I do my most complete work, I design and build the whole thing: this site, hand-coded; and the systems smaller companies run on. For Nitra I built a full training-management system, own their entire Zoho One platform, and am now rebuilding that platform from the ground up in code (Next.js + Postgres) as they outgrow low-code.
So none of this is a pivot; it's the whole of what I've always done. Because I design and build, the hand-off between designed and shipped is a choice, not a tax, I can carry something end to end, or plug into a team and hand over clean.
- Conversational Designer, KBC
- Design Engineer, Valderas
- UX Designer, VRT MAX
- UX Designer, Smooth Sailing
- Master of Interaction Design (IxD)
- Design Systems Certificate, Memorisely
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"I really enjoyed working with Inti. He is a strong UX designer with great expertise, who always starts from the user's perspective. Inti isn't afraid to be critical, asks the right questions, and consistently gives constructive feedback. What stands out most is his calm, positive attitude. He communicates clearly, takes the time to explain things well, and is always ready to help. An absolute asset to any team."
"Inti is self-critical designer with an eye for detail and design. Someone who is enormously flexible in adapting to new technologies and software. No question or problem remains unsolved in his hands. Thanks to his support and guidance I became the designer I am today."
"At LUCA School of Arts, Inti represented 3,500 students on our board of directors for two years. Together with a few other students, he managed to develop an even better participation model for students during the height of the COVID period. We are grateful to him for this impressive achievement and the wonderful collaboration."
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