ABOUT · THE DESIGNER BEHIND THE ARCHIVE
KlausW.
A product designer in Melbourne who designs and builds, drawn to the structure beneath an interface, and to the person on the other side of the screen.
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In brief
The short versionWho, and how I got here
SPECIMEN — K.W. Cyanotype · 2024 Pressed, Melbourne
I design with attention, then build what I create — so the care carries from Figma to code.
I came to product design through visual craft: type, grid, the structure beneath surfaces, and a habit of looking closely. That training never really left.
I work across design and code. What I shape in Figma, I can ship in a development environment. I'm after both the precision of a well-built system and the warmth of something made by someone who cares who's on the other side of the screen.
— Klaus
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Instruments
Curated, not exhaustiveHow the work gets made
Practice
Tools
Off the clock
“I learned to design by learning to look — slowly, and twice. Everything else followed from that.”
On the practice · 2024
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A field record
The pathNewest first · full CV on request
- 2025-2026Present
Product Designer
Vision Verse · Remote (Sydney)
Took a quiz game from research to production including illustration, interface, and front-end code working as one. Shipped to a custom domain within two weeks.
- 2025Award
Industry Hackathon — Winner
Swinburne University x Practera x VirtualCC · Melbourne
16 hours to reframe a brief: a 50+ year olds workforce and an underserved patient group, paired by shared experience rather than shared roof. First place among 8 teams.
- 2022-20242.5 yrs
Freelance Designer
Self-employed
2D and 3D work across multiple design fields as a multidisciplinarian. Research-led design that found the line between what a brand wanted to say and what its market actually needed to hear.
- 2019-20222.5 yrs
Multidisciplinary Designer
Yindee Design Co. · Bangkok
Sketched, prototyped, and shipped including graphic, packaging, booths, products. Learned to read a client's hesitation and answer it with material, not just opinion.
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Formal study
EducationDegrees and specialisations
- 2024-20252 yrs
Master of Information Technology
Software Development specialisation
Swinburne University · Melbourne
the deliberate decision to learn the other half of the craft, so design ideas would never have to wait for someone else to build them.
- 2015-20194 yrs
Bachelor of Decorative Art (Design)
Product Design specialisation
Silpakorn University · Bangkok
Where the eye for form and the instinct for storytelling first met. The roots of everything that came after.
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