David Aerne
Self-employed Interaction Developer / Frontend Engineer at Elastiq GmbH
Founder / Interaction & Design Developer / Frontend Engineer at Elastiq GmbH
🙏🏿 ⚠️ freelance work only ⚠️ 🙏🏿 As an interaction developer with visual skills, I explore ways to melt code and design, while raising the quality and creative freedom of both. I use my passion and enthusiasm as a tool to promote ideas and skills.
For years I played around in Amiga Painter, Photoshop, and learned how to program on my own and during my IT-education. I was lucky to work in a small company in Fribourg that believed in my skills as a visual designer where I learned that coding and visual-design are things that work well together. Thrilled to discover that I would work on a job that would contain some of my greatest passions: Videogames, Visual Design and Programming, I started to explore the magical world of interaction development.
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As an interaction developer with visual skills, I explore ways to melt code and design, while raising the quality and creative freedom of both. I use my passion and enthusiasm as a tool to promote ideas and innovating concepts
Working on automatisation of style-guides, planing and modularisation of large scale projects. Working very closely with designers, teach them the concepts of modularity and integrating them as active members of the dev team by building interfaces to interact with the frontend.
In a team of a total of 3 developers and one designer, I built the view part of custom built MVC web-applications. During that time I worked for clients including UNIC AG, Compagnie Financière Richemont SA, kleio.com, kreiskids.ch. I learned a lot about JavaScript Apps and structuring my work for large projects. I brought in my know-how about HTML, CSS and behavioural javascript as well as the experience in visual modularity.
I worked on multiple smaller projects as a interaction developer http://www.promotiontools.ch/ , http://www.atupri-guide.ch/ , http://125jahre.bucherer.com/ , http://erben.rhb.ch/ , http://www.mrutschmann.com/ ... At H&V I learned a lot about code structure, interaction and animation under the lead of Severin Klaus. Before I left I had the front-end lead for the new SWISS website. (http://www.swiss.com) On this project I could bring in my know-how about large scale projects and learned a lot more about it.
I was one of the first members of the frontend-team of the business digital communication at unic. Together with with a small team, I helped build and shape the frontend landscape at unic. I had the opportunity to learn a lot about corporate websites, large scale online-shops and small campaign websites as well as collaborating with designers and other developers of all kind. I worked on the frontend code for Hybris, Sharepoint, Typo3, Wordpress, Adobe CQ5 as well as custom built systems. UI & Javascript Development / Webdesign and Temlating (JS / CSS 2 & 3 / HTML 4 & 5)
I have made the UI's and templates for almost every webapp and website of bluesystem.ch during those two years. We where building custom websites for smaller companies and particulars. I designed and implemented the backend UI for http://www.kameleo.ch/ the company's own CMS solution.
During the time I worked on my own, I was working for smaller companies, helping them design and build tools for them selves or there clients. I mainly programmed PHP and designed with Photoshop, Illustrator or using HTML/CSS. My clients included Montreux Jazz Festival, http://www.custom-design.ch/ and www.cafag.ch.
Giving Gever classes. Administrating and supporting the Gever network.
Developing & Designing custom web-applications for small businesses and private clients.
Designing & Developing: LINGO Programming (Macromedia Director), PHP, HTML, CSS, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash.
Education2
Learn about the basics of IT. Windows / Unix - networking, hardware, system, basic programming, web programming, databases
Projects2
Plots the entire color-names collection across multiple 3D color models to reveal where the dataset is dense, sparse, or unevenly distributed.
A curated dataset of more than 30,000 color names collected and invented over the years.
Publications1
return-false.pckt.blog
Volunteering6
Guest Speaker
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
Teaching Creative Programming for Noobs for free.
Speaking about contemporary digital visual-design, design systems and procedural design
Talk: Design systems not values - Create systems that bridge the gap between frontend and design, generative and automated design systems and design language.
Colors - how to make things prettier by default Takled about color spaces and generative colors
Talk: Les recettes secrètes de la création du web. A talk given to all students at Eikon to explain the techniques used behind the web creations at hingerling & volkart.
Awards3
Best of Swiss Web 2015: Master - Swiss.com
Best of Swiss Web 2015: Gold - swiss.com category "Mobile Web"
Best of Swiss Web 2014: Silver - Concat