First portfolio relaunch in eight years. Countless versions died in Figma. This one got a weekend deadline and shipped. Designers: hold ⌥ and hover around. timhartmann.eu/

I’m 33. Freelance UI engineer from dortmund, Germany. I am building an app for home baristas by night with broffee.de to collect and find your next coffee.

The longer you’re in the game, the less often new tools make it into your workflow. You check them out, evaluate quickly, but then you stick with what works. Not out of stubbornness, but because you’ve learned that results matter, not the toolbox.

I hope you have a great weekend and that you're doing other things rather than sitting at your computer!

And since I spend most of my time sitting at my desk, I want it to be comfortable and attractive. That's why I'm always working on improving it, but at the moment I'm really happy with it! Wallpaper by @UltraLinx

When I'm not sitting at my laptop, I'm out running or cycling. I hope you also have a hobby that doesn't involve a computer and fulfils you!

Everyone knows that you should share your work and it is important. You can make it better and post your process behind the final screens. That explains why you came to this solution here. Here's mine. It took all these rectangles to arrive at a final version. And yes... It's not tidy in the drafts folder🤷‍♂️

As a Freelance UI Designer, you don’t need hundreds of tools. These 8 are enough – to organize yourself, get inspiration and build great products. I know the drill: testing a new tool every week, only to realize the basics were always sufficient. Less is more.

What times we live in!🔥 As a designer with limited programming skills, I always struggled to turn my ideas into reality. It's incredible how it feels, because Cursor, Claude & Co. enable you to do so much now without having to be a programmer🤯

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Hey X, I’m Tim — a 32-year-old freelance UI designer focused on systems and scalable, user-centric digital products. From now on, I’ll mostly share my thoughts on design systems, processes, and everything that makes digital products better.