Hylke Bons
I'm a product designer who codes. I design both how it looks, and how it works. I love working together with people from all over the world.
I’m passionate about Free and Open Source Software and have been contributing design and code for 2 decades.
I got laid off in 2026 and hope to gather enough monthly sponsors so I can make helping FOSS projects with free design services my full-time job.
Past experience
I've been doing design in the FOSS world since 2006. Starting out at the Tango project, creating icons for Pidgin and GNOME.
My first serious job was at Intel on the Moblin / MeeGo design team. Then spent a while at Red Hat on OpenShift. Meanwhile I started SparkleShare as my main coding side project.
I joined Xamarin, which was later acquired by Microsoft. I was the product design lead on Visual Studio for Mac before joining the VS Code team.
Showcase
Coming soon!