I'm a Swiss UX/UI-Designer and Frontend-Developer.
It's my passion to design easy-to-grasp software, which helps people do their job successfully and with joy.
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I prefer to work remote or out of my homeoffice and within an agile development environment such as Scrum. Of course I'm also available to work on-site in your or your clients office, if it makes more sense for the job at hand.
As a designer I want to provide the user with the most productive way to achieve her goal.
As a developer I strive to develop websites and apps which are easy to maintain and extend even in the years to come.
This is why I base my work on the following principles.
A few things should be cristal-clear to the user at every moment
Where am I, what has happenend so far, what can I do now, what is going to happen when I take the next steps.
Today's designs need high flexibility to give the best experience in every situation. In my work I take the many screen sizes, varying bandwidths as well as different contents and states into account.
To make the user feel at home, I watch out to not unnecessarily reinvent the wheel in the most critical part of a design (e.g. navigation, links, buttons, color codes, notifications).
People use a website or an app with a goal in mind. It is always my focus that the main tasks can be completed in the most efficient way possible.
To reach the necessary familiarity and efficiency I take great care to create a consistent experience throughout. This includes everything from typography, icons, images to reusable elements.
To make navigating the app or website as intuitive as possible I use bold visual hierarchy. Everything has its place to make the user feel comfortable.
Clarity in programming means for me to have clearly named variables and methods as well as thoughtful comments.
Reusable modules and clear distinction of components are the cornerstones of a flexible code base, so I put considerable emphasis on these.
Best practices and widely known solutions or libraries so that every developer feels at home right away.
Developing applications with a solid web framework and implementing clever algorithms makes for a fast application.
Not using the latest hyped framework ensures longevity of available of resources and established best practices.
Structuring a web project according to MVC (Model/View/Controller) gives a clear guideline as to where to put what and enables easy customization.
Design and development of a school business software from scratch.
Logo and website design. Development of the website with GRAV CMS.
Design and development of a fundraising tool.
Side project of my own.
I'm happy to provide further background information on these case studies or answer your questions.
I'm looking forward to get in touch with you!
Beni Gartenmann
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