Wim Houben

3520 Zonhoven, Belgium | wim@wimhouben.com | +32 494 10 19 98

Summary

I'm a designer with 10 years of experience creating scalable systems, methods, and products.

Experience

Design System Lead - Swift | 2022-2024

• Migration from Axure to a Figma-based design system
• Built a component library, token architecture, and documentation website adopted by 40+ products
• Aligning UX, marketing, development, and product teams
• Managed the backlog and sprint ceremonies
• Enabled faster design cycles and more consistent UIs

Design Thinking Lead - Swift | 2019-2022

• Initiated the development of a design process
• Facilitated design sprints to solve key product challenges
• Co-created a toolkit with methods and frameworks
• Reduced time from idea to prototype through structured collaboration and validation

Design Sprint Facilitator - Limfit | 2021

• Partnered with founder as a full-stack designer
• Facilitated a design sprint to validate with users
• Built an interactive prototype and conducted user testing
• Prevented €30,000 in unnecessary development costs

Design Sprint Facilitator - Satsearch | 2020

• Facilitated a design sprint to redesign website UX
• Conducted stakeholder interviews to define challenges
• Facilitated workshops, built an interactive prototype, and conducted user tests
• Delivered a styleguide, prototype, and actionable insights to refine product strategy

UX Designer - Corsearch | 2018-2019

• Designed two legal-tech products from concept to launch
• Defined product flows, created wireframes and prototypes
• Collaborated closely with developers to ship features
• Wrote user stories in Jira and contributed as a SCRUM master
• Gained hands-on experience in fast-paced product development

UX Consultant - Human Interface Group | 2016-2018

• Various UX projects across multiple industries

UX Researcher (intern) - Centre for User Experience | 2015

• User Research for a planning tool in caregiving sector

UX Researcher (intern) - Mediasoft | 2015

• Field Research for a admin tool used by HVAC technicians

Education

Master's in Management - KU Leuven | 2014-2016

Master's in Communication Sciences - KU Leuven | 2010-2014

Additional

Guest Lecturer Design Thinking - KU Leuven | 2020

Podcaster / Writer - wimhouben.com | 2025-present

Podcaster - Wonderkamer | 2023

Musician - Radiocosmo | 2021-present

Cook - Chiro Zolder | 2019-present

Leader - Chiro Zolder | 2009-2016

Skills

• Design & Research: Interaction design, wireframing, prototyping, UX research, usability testing
• Methods & Processes: Design thinking, workshop facilitation, agile and scrum, product strategy
• Technical: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, design tokens
• Tools: Figma, Figjam, Jira, Notion, Miro, Axure, Zeroheight, Confluence, GitHub
• Creative: Visual design, storytelling, podcast and audio production