Koen Jansen
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Koen Jansen

Design

Designing in the intersection between brand & digital at Bakken & Baeck

3 years ago

Work Experience

2022 — Now
2021 — 2022
Zaandom • Remote

Team member in the area Search & Assortment; the core of digital shopping. Involved in topics like:

• Design System - Create and maintain the look and feel
• Filtering - A new filter framework optimised for mobile
• Search - Optimising search and results by testing
• Cross sell - Selling more products at multiple touchpoints
• Future vision - Set a vision for UX and look and feel
• Messaging - How to communicate with our user

2019 — 2021
Amsterdam

Responsible for the user experience and overall design for clients like Awakenings, Amsterdam Dance Event, Eye Film Museum and many more.

2016 — 2019
Amsterdam

• Reimagined the way users sell their tickets
• Designed the iOS and Android native apps from scratch
• Created a consistent and scalable design system
• Created a new color scheme for brand and UI
• Created a custom iconset in different styles
• Responsible for all marketing assets in all active countries
• Supervising and mentoring junior designers and interns

2012 — 2016
Design at Mobile Pioneers
's-Hertogenbosch

I was responible for designing Buienalarm and other high consumer apps, like TVGiDS.tv and Flitsers.mobi

Speaking

2017
Mock client at HKU
Utrecht

I represented TicketSwap as a ‘mock’ client for students at the HKU

2015
Guest teacher at Koning Willem 1 College
's-Hertogenbosch

As a former student I gave a lecture about 'the design process'. I also supervised senior students with their projects, and prepared them for graduation.

Side Projects

Ongoing

Creating and releasing music. Every new release is a new collaboration around my artwork, the mix and the marketing plan.

Ongoing

I'm helping out a friend with his branding and strategy for his popular pizza place potentially becoming franchise.

Ongoing

As a singer-songwriter and producer I came across several problems during the writing proces that did affect my creativity. Whenever I was looking for the right song structure, less cheap synonyms or rhyme words, it got me out of the flow rapidly. With Rhyme we solve these problems.

Awards

2020
Website of the Day from Awwwards
2016
Website van het Jaar from websitevhjaar.nl

TicketSwap

2015
Beste Weer-app Van Het Jaar from iCulture

Buienalarm

2014
Best Startup Logo Of The Year from Business Insider

Just In Case

Education

2008 — 2012
Bachelor of Design at Koning Willem 1 College
's-Hertogenbosch
2011 — 2012
Internship at EMI music
Amsterdam

Marketing & Communication

2010 — 2011
Internship at Work Hard Play Hard

Contact

Website
Instagram
Dribbble

Teams

Current
Bakken & Bæck