Featured work
59 Awards
Game of Go
Experiential Running Installation
Studied how runners behave in public spaces. Created all game mechanics and interactions.
The Witcher
Welcome to the Continent
Attended a creative workshop with our top talent. Pitched the circling monolith camera as the narrative anchor.
Run My Way
Interactive Running Experience
Designed the facial and motion tracking onboarding flow. Defined the experience strategy for the Shanghai launch.
Built for myself
PersonalHousehold
Splitting the mental load
An iOS app with Apple Watch companion that actually holds both people accountable. Task management, reminders, real-life guilt. The kind of tool every shared household quietly needs.
Climate
Home ventilation, from scratch
A control system and data dashboard for the air ventilation in my home. Real-time monitoring, historical data, smart controls. Built it because nothing off the shelf came close.
Homebridge
Making dumb fans smart
A custom Homebridge plugin that puts house fans inside Apple HomeKit. Hardware meets software, comfort meets control.
Spiritbox
Ghost hunting, but make it native
An iPhone app that pulls signals from every sensor on the device and translates them into words. Built natively in SwiftUI. Whether you believe is up to you.
More work
Umami Land
Concept & Creative Direction
JLabs Installations
Experience & Interaction Design
Well of Hope
Experience & Interaction Design
BancolombiaLab
Experience & Interaction Design
Marketfinder
Experience & Interaction Design
#LifeChangingPlaces
Experience & Interaction Design
I obsess over how things feel. The concept, the interaction, the moment someone touches your product and just gets it. From XR to web to spatial experiences.
Fifteen years of shaping digital experiences at the highest level. As UX Director at Monks, I led a creative team across three continents, picking up 59 awards along the way. Recent years took me deeper into emerging tech: creative directing a boxing platform, designing spatial interiors on Quest, and exploring AI on VR devices.
Somewhere along the way, I stopped wanting to hand things off. I wanted to make them. Now I work from Amsterdam as a Design Engineer -- same strategic thinking, same obsession with craft, but with my hands on the code. React, TypeScript, Three.js, SwiftUI. This site? Designed and built by me.
Specialises in
Design Engineering Concept & Interaction Spatial & XR Design Systems
Builds with
React, TypeScript SwiftUI, Node WebGL, Three.js GSAP
Background
MSc, UvA Ex Media.Monks
Based in
Amsterdam Available worldwide
Awards & Recognitions
Got somethingexciting in mind?
Or drop me a line at hello@maartenhonig.com