I joined Heineken at the inception of their new ecosystem, eazle. A platform built to unify 80 markets under a single, cohesive product experience for customers, distributors and sales reps.
The challenge: bring together fragmented apps, establish a shared design language and bridge design and code through a shared language.
As part of a Design System team of 6, we built a system adopted across all product teams on 3 platforms. We started from the ground up with type scales, colour palettes and iconography, and grew into a full system of tokens, components, patterns and processes.
My role touched every layer of this work.

Automating component health measurement Creating a self-updating Component Health Dashboard powered by MCP-based checks that measure components against a set of defined component norms.
With a solid version of a Design System in place, I joined Coolblue to further create consistency across web, app and internal tools, while helping designers and developers work faster. We built a system of tokens, components, documentation and processes, adopted across 5+ product teams working on the website and app, available in 3 countries.
Beyond building, I helped the system mature. Setting up a contribution process was a milestone in maturing both the system and the community around it. I bridged design and development while also supporting product designers in their day-to-day use of the system, keeping one foot in the product by supporting the app with product design.

