A picture of a drawing Sophia made herself.

Creative Work

An insight into my creative dabbles

I love being creative in my approaches to make work more fun and engaging. This includes visual work, and having worked with a lot brilliant designers over the past few years, I decided to learn how to weave value-adding design into my work. I still consider myself a learner in this regard, but I already found that this approach has made my life easier in many situations:

  • Creating slides that augment and supplement a talk, not distract from it

  • Helping explain complex topics with simpler visuals

  • Designing visually appealing and engaging whiteboards on Miro

  • Bringing vision or goal statements to life with colours, icons and imagery

  • Designing this website!

Below you can find a few spotlights showing how I used my general design skills to augment my work, or simply to show what I create when there's no rules or business constraints to think about.

Work-related creations

These are samples of visual work in my professional setting.

Green PO: Design Support

Green PO are a non-profit initiative that aims to turn every product owner and product professional into a green one. I'm working with Green PO to revamp and streamline their brand design, by running design discovery workshops, and iterating on design changes. This includes the creation of style guidelines and making designs more accessible.

Presentations

A good slide deck supplements your work. It can support your narrative, invite the audience to engage, and sometimes an image tells more than a 1000 words. Over the years I have learned a lot about slide arrangement, composition and design. I didn't want to be that person that pitches you a new business case with an overloaded slide deck full of eye-sore colour combinations and misaligned, low-resolution elements everywhere.Here are a few conceptual sample slides, so you can see for yourself.

Workshop boards: Miro

I love making engaging workshops where people have fun, think deep and collaborate. Tools like Miro are my bread and butter, and while I don't shy away from using pre-built templates, I love making my own from scratch.

Sample Snippets from my own Miro boards & workshops

Other creative work

Made for fun, friends or practice.

Digital Dabbles

I love playing around with tools like Figma and Photoshop to design ad-hoc art for whatever purpose comes up. I've made designs for printing on t-shirts or mugs, composed banners for fictional characters, designed small brand assets like profile banners or name cards, and of course there's the good old fanart. Most of it is about composition and manipulation of existing elements but I'm slowly learning how to build things from scratch too!

Drawings