Work

What I do for a living

I'm a Staff Design Systems Designer at Mozilla, based in Berlin, working on the Firefox design system, Acorn.

Acorn Docs Storybook

I joined Mozilla in 2020 and moved to the design systems team in 2021, right when Acorn was taking shape. Since then I've helped build the team and its processes from the ground up. Alongside the core DS work, I've contributed to feature projects like the Settings Redesign, Add-ons, Onboarding, and the New Tab Page — which means I regularly work with the people who use the system, not just on the system itself.

Figma variable import plugin

Tokens

Design tokens and variable sync

Firefox ships on multiple platforms with light and dark modes, different OS styles, and various surface contexts. Keeping all of that in sync between design files and code used to be a manual, error-prone process. To solve this, I built figma-variable-import, a tool that automatically syncs Figma variables with the codebase. Designers can now switch between themes, OS variants, and surfaces directly in Figma and trust that what they see matches what ships.

Rolling tokens out across a large codebase is a gradual effort. We track progress on the Token Adoption dashboard and the Component Adoption dashboard.

A11y annotation components in Figma

Accessibility

Annotations plugin

Accessibility specs were often incomplete or inconsistent across teams, which made it harder for engineers to implement things correctly. Together with the accessibility team, I created a set of annotation components and documentation in Figma, along with a plugin that makes it straightforward for designers to add the right details to their specs.

Icon automation pipeline

Tooling

Icon pipeline automations

Firefox uses hundreds of icons, and keeping them formatted consistently — correct artboard sizes, optimized SVGs, proper naming — was tedious to do by hand. I set up automations in the Acorn icon repository that handle formatting and validation automatically, so contributors can focus on the icon design itself.

Earlier work

Before moving to design systems, I started at Mozilla on the Content Security team. There, I built the front-end foundations of HTTPS-Only Mode — a feature that upgrades all connections to HTTPS by default. It shipped in Firefox 83 and is still part of the browser today.

Education

I hold a Bachelor of Science from BHT and a Master of Science from HTW Berlin, both in Media and Computing.