This is a full-time position based in Berlin The Mission The web was created by scientists, to foster scientific collaboration and drive progress for a better world. Here at ResearchGate, we’re looking for a committed front-end engineer to join our Design Systems and Tooling team. We are a bunch of passionate optimists…

About three years ago we started to build a unified and shared design language at ResearchGate. What started with standardizing basic design tokens like colors, fonts and drop shadows quickly evolved into an ecosystem of libraries, workflows and tools managed and maintained by a dedicated Design System and Operations team. …

Recently I stumbled upon feedly’s post here on medium where they share some interesting insights about the process of redesigning their mobile platform following the principles Google’s material Design. While many of the things shown there are already quite common, on certain thing caught my attention. Arthur Bodolec, Design co-founder…

Mobile Menu Approach Recently I’ve worked on a Project with a pretty complex information architecture on two levels. While the Desktop version had its challenges, the first drafts of the mobile version became pretty messy and hard to use. So I went a step backward and defined some key requirements that should help me to find a better solution Access via burger icon and support for drag gestures Separate second level but preserve quick access to the first level at any time

Three simple ideas on how designers and developers may collaborate Nowadays it seems everybody is aware that bringing together Designers and Developers is the key for building successful products. You can read about this on numerous platforms and even I’ve written about the importance of involve Developer’s early in the process. …

UI Pattern Ever since I discovered medium.com the first time, I’m fascinated by the way how they deal with the main navigation while scrolling. I don’t know, if they were the first ones who used this kind of UI pattern, but they were the first ones that brought my attention to this. …

Developers often find themselves at the end of the production chain that already seems to be messed up even before their work has begun. Facing unrealistic deadlines, small budgets or missing specifications can cause frustration and helplessness. …