Last Updated Jul 2024
Hi, My name
is Sjoerd.
Hi, My name
is Sjoerd.
I am an Amsterdam-based Senior Product Designer and Art Director with over 13 years of experience developing cutting-edge digital products, digital product marketing, and mentoring talent.
I am currently working with multiple teams in the growth department at WeTransfer to create the future of creative collaboration. Prior to joining WeTransfer, I worked on innovative marketing and digital products at Present Plus (acquired), Your Majesty, and IceMobile.
Product design
Reviews & Portals by WeTransfer
Mar 2023 - Now
Portals' main goal is to make the client review process less tedious. With portals and reviews, we’re trying to expedite feedback and decision-making for creatives and their clients. Creatives get features to present their work and guide their clients’ attention while clients get features to express their feedback in context and on time.
Paste by WeTransfer
May 2020 – Feb 2022
Paste, a product in WeTransfer's suite of creative tools aimed at automating design for presentations. Together with a multidisciplinary team of designers and developers I was daily involved in User Research, User Testing, Ideation / Brainstorms, Art Direction, UX Design, UI Design, and Prototyping.
Collect by WeTransfer
Nov 2016 – Jan 2018
Together with a multidisciplinary team, we collaborated to define the future of WeTransfer for Mobile. After researching how people consume inspiration, we tried to tackle the problem of not having one place to collect and keep your inspiration.
I was part of the core team of 4 that took the product from ideation to launch in 9 months. After that, I was heavily involved in the product marketing and communication design. If you want to know more check out the website or the launch video
Paste by WeTransfer
May 2020 – Feb 2022
Paste, a product in WeTransfer's suite of creative tools aimed at automating design for presentations. Together with a multidisciplinary team of designers and developers I was daily involved in User Research, User Testing, Ideation / Brainstorms, Art Direction, UX Design, UI Design, and Prototyping.
Collect by WeTransfer
Nov 2016 – Jan 2018
Together with a multidisciplinary team, we collaborated to define the future of WeTransfer for Mobile. After researching how people consume inspiration, we tried to tackle the problem of not having one place to collect and keep your inspiration.
I was part of the core team of 4 that took the product from ideation to launch in 9 months. After that, I was heavily involved in the product marketing and communication design. If you want to know more check out the website or the launch video
The all-new wetransfer.com
Mar 2016 – Nov 2016
I was lucky to be part of the redesign of WeTransfer in 2016. With a core team of 8, we tried to create a faster, more secure and more reliable service through research and design. 5 months later, we rolled out the new WeTransfer to 195 countries. Check out the more in-depth article about our design process.
Present Plus, Your Majesty, and more...
2011 – 2016
Before I decided to focus on being a product designer, I worked for 7 years in agencies in and around Amsterdam for clients such as:
Samsung, Absolut, Airbnb, ABN Amro, Albert Heijn, Universal, Dopper, PostNL, Netflix, Facebook, V&A, Volkshotel, FILA, Adidas, Mr. Porter, Museumnacht, Dopper, and WeTransfer.
Side projects
- Stemdan.nl - Preparing Dutch first-time voters (2017)
- Amsterdamburger.club - Finding the best burger in town (2016)
- Virtuawl Pubcrawl - a Pubcrawl in times of a pandemic (2020)
- Planet Kimchi - Perfecting my Kimchi recipe (2022 - now)
Mini-obsessions
- Shooting analog photos with my Pentax P30 →
- Digging rare disco, funk and italo →
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Amsterdam Typography →
For more information on my professional background, check out my Linkedin. If you want to chat or get more information about my work, please reach out to me at sjoerdvanrijen@gmail.com