Gustav Hansen.
- Since 01/2022Strapi
An open-source CMS using a headless architecture and enables developers to create, manage, and consume APIs with ease.
Content Platform Squad
Due to the increasing requirements placed upon the Content Squad, it became necessary to split the team. As a result, the newly formed Content Platform Team is now responsible for overseeing the CMS architecture and focusing on high-impact areas across the platform.
Contributions
- Content revisions to store the history of a document
Content Squad
As a Content Squad, our focus has been on delivering the best content editing experience that a headless CMS can provide.
Contributions
- Folder support in the media library
- Review workflow capabilities to manage the lifecycle of a document
- Continuous improvements to the design-system
- 02/2021 - 12/2021Zeit Online
A German liberal news website that covers various topics such as politics, culture, and science.
zeit.de
As a member of the platform team, my primary focus revolved around software architecture, performance optimization, website accessibility, and search engine optimization (SEO) to enhance the overall functionality of the website.
- 02/2018 - 12/2021Freelance
analyse & kritik — a.k.i Verlag
Monthly newspaper for left-wing debates and practices.
Contributions
- Information architecture, technical conception and development of the Wordpress theme
- Tools for a web-first print production, subscription model and distribution workflow
Seebrücke — Mensch Mensch Mensch e.V.
Seebrücke is a social movement advocating for the rights of refugees and calling for safe and legal pathways for migration.
Contributions
- Development and maintenance of a wordpress theme and later on a headless CMS + next.js
Mietenwatch — Prototype Fund
A data analysis of the Berlin rental market, its dynamics and ownership conditions
Contributions
- Data visualizations, based on Plotly.js
- Website maintenance and information architecture
Companjon — Edenspiekermann, Boston Consulting Group
Companjon provides a safety net that offers insurance add-on solutions for online bookings and purchases.
Contributions
- Frontend-development of the landing page based on Gatsby.js and Tailwind.css
- 07/2018 - 12/2019Zoff
We prioritized the political impact of graphic design. My role involved creating editorial tools for various newspapers and leading award-winning interactive storytelling projects.
Eigensinn im Bruderland — TU Berlin, Out of focus
A web documentary about migrants who came to the GDR as contract workers, students or political emigrants asserting their own ideas.
Awards: Grimme Online Award 2020 (Knowledge & Education)
Europe's Far Right — taz
A transnational research project by Libération, Falter, Gazeta Wyborcza, HVG and Internazionale on Europe's Far Right parties.
Contributions
- Joint visual storytelling workshops
- Development of the WYSIWYG editor, based on Slate and React
Coal Transitions — CoalExit, TU Berlin
Coal Transitions is an international research hub which aims to collect credible and feasible trajectories and policy guidance for deep transitions in the coal sector.
8 Questions on 8 March — Council of Europe (Istanbul Convention)
A quiz aiming to counter the devastating effects of gender-based violence has on women’s lives and to help states prevent, protect and prosecute these crimes.
- 02/2018 - 07/2018Edenspiekermann
A a creative agency that provides a range of services including branding, digital design, and strategic consulting.
Helios — Fresenius Helios
This company is a healthcare provider that operates hospitals and clinics, offering services such as inpatient and outpatient care, emergency medicine, and rehabilitation.
Contributions
- Development of the design system and component library, used by more than 600 hospitals and several product teams
Globus — Globus
A retail company that operates a chain of supermarkets and hypermarkets, selling a wide range of products including groceries, electronics, clothing, and household items.
Contributions
- Development of an interactive prototype (based on React), used to improve communication between development teams and designers in different countries, aswell as experimentation with different layouts.
Amtliche Nachrichten — AZ Anzeiger AG
Publishing platform for Swiss Gemeinden, funded by the Google DNI together with AZ Medien, one of the leading media companies in Switzerland, and Lovely Systems.
Contributions
- Development of a design system/ pattern library
- Development of an admin interface for publishing Amtliche Nachrichten across all Swiss municipalities, aswell as a public portal, displaying already published articles
- 2017The Guardian
A British media organization that produces news content across various topics including politics, culture, sports and global affairs, in both digital and print formats.
Platform team
Contributions
- Developing a <a href='https://www.theguardian.com/info/2019/apr/04/revisiting-the-rendering-tier'>new rendering tier</a>
- Leading developer for the migration of ES5 to ES6
- Replacement of the gulp build pipeline
- Various small projects to measure and improve the developer experience in the company
- 2015 - 2017about:source
Campact — Campact
Campact is a movement, in which more than 2 million people argue for progressive politics.
Contributions
- Development of a design system used in various microservices
- Internal workshops on modern frontend development
Pro Asyl
PRO ASYL is Germany's largest pro immigration advocacy organization.
- 2014 - 2017jib collective
A self-organized collective of young, committed journalists and multimedia storytellers.
Ostpol — n-ost
Magazine for eastern-europe
Contributions
- Development of a static prototype in cooperation with <a href='http://periscope.de'>Mathias Kölling</a>
- Several years of technical support
Migration Control — taz
Data visualization and interactive documentary explaining how the EU finances migration defense measures on the african continent.
Awards: Otto Brenner Media Project Award for critical journalism, 2018
Contributions
- Development of the client application with Backbone.js
- Cooperation with <a href='http://caira.info'>Ça ira!</a> and <a href='http://taz.de/'>taz</a>
The Silence of the Lambs — Greenpeace Magazine
Multimedia scroll-documentary on uranium mining in Mongolia.
Awards: Hansel Mieth Award Digital, Shortlist, 2015 & 2016, n-ost Feature Award, Shortlist, 2016
Contributions
- Conception of the narrative
- Development of the layout and frontend
Tabacco Country — Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung
Multimedia Reportage in cooperation with the Fluter magazine
Awards: Nominated for the German Reporterpreis, 2016
Contributions
- Conception, Layout & Implementation
- 2011 - 2015WIENFLUSS
The leading agency in the area of web-accessibility in Austria.
Wien.info — Wientourismus
Official Tourism-Website of Vienna in 13 languages
Contributions
- Frontend Development, UX & Template Development
- Conception & development of cross-media and interactive concepts for various campaigns
European Energy Award — European Energy Award
Tool of the European Energy- and Climate-protection municipalities; used Europe-wide by thousands of municipalities, to reduce their ecological footprint
Contributions
- Information Architecture
- Development of a JS-Framework & Templating
Österreichische Nationalbank — Österreichische Nationalbank
Website of the Austrian National Bank
Contributions
- Development of templates, used in the intranet & internet
- JavaScript code quality and performance optimization & accessibility consulting
Bundeskanzleramt — Bundeskanzleramt
Webseite Austrian Federal Chancellery
Contributions
- Information architecture, Static prototype
- Accessibility consulting
- 2009 - 2010Miranus GmbH
Xobor
Worlds leading bulletin-board hoster with more than 4 million users
Contributions
- Search-Engine-Optimization
- Templating (B2C & B2B)
- Customer-Support