Marcel van Remmerden

Hallo 👋

This is my personal README, so you can learn more about me, how I think, my priorities and what you can expect from me.

About me

• I'm based in Hamburg, Germany, but I consider myself a digital nomad and I'm traveling half of the year. My most recent destinations were Sri Lanka 🇱🇰, Japan 🇯🇵, Canary Islands (Famara, Lanzarote) 🇮🇨 and Bulgaria 🇧🇬.
• I'm very much into sports and any kind of competition. I grew up playing soccer ⚽ and nowadays I surf 🏄, ski ⛷️, skate 🛹 and do anything else that looks like it might get my heart rate up.
• I joined GitLab as a Product Designer for Create in 2019. Nowadays I'm leading Core DevOps (Create, Plan and CI/CD) 🧑‍💻.

How I work

These are resources that I agree with and might refer to in my conversations:

Design management

• The Rebalancing of Design Management
• Brian Chesky’s new playbook

UX positioning

• UX designers must own design judgment
• Why I can’t convince your execs to invest in UX
• Fast Path to a Great UX – Increased Exposure Hours

My beliefs for Core DevOps

• We are still a scrappy startup
• We feel confident relying on our expertise to make decisions
• We prioritise ruthlessly
• We are experts for our area and can confidently represent our opinion
• We are connectors and collaborators
• We represent the user's eyes and voice
• We are not measured by what get's shipped
• We follow the “domain expert” design approach