Work
I'm a Staff Design Systems Designer at Mozilla, based in Berlin, working on the Firefox design system, Acorn.
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.
I've also worked on feature projects like the Settings Redesign, Add-ons, Onboarding, and the New Tab Page, so I regularly work with the people who use the system, not just on the system itself.
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.
So I builtfigma-variable-import, a tool that syncs Figma variables with the codebase. Designers can 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 theToken Adoption dashboardand theComponent Adoption dashboard.
Accessibility
Annotations plugin
Accessibility specs were often incomplete or inconsistent across teams, which made them harder for engineers to implement correctly.
Working with the accessibility team, I created a set of annotation components and documentation in Figma, plus a plugin that makes it easy for designers to add the right details to their specs.
Tooling
Icon pipeline automations
Firefox uses hundreds of icons. Keeping them consistent (correct artboard sizes, optimized SVGs, proper naming) was tedious to do by hand.
I set up automations in theAcorn icon repositorythat handle formatting and validation, 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 inFirefox 83and 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.