ward de muynck
@warddemuynck
I turn complex industrial and public-service systems into digital platforms people like to use.
What I'm looking for
I've turned EU regulation into a working digital product passport at Tabulas, following 20 years of hands-on product design across industrial, government, and digital products.
At Sweet Mustard, I led product work while coaching designers and staying hands-on. I designed manufacturing measurement tools for Electrolux's 30+ site landscape, helped turn around Digitaal Vlaanderen's healthcare platform through research across 13+ facility types, and designed container-shipping asset tracking across 35+ European countries for ECS.
Previously, I researched and prototyped an enterprise steel platform for ArcelorMittal at Capgemini, creating a design system, story mapping, and iterative ways of working for operators, developers, and product owners.
I've also led UX for AI and machine-learning products at Robovision, redesigned Bisq's multi-currency orderbook, and founded digital studios focused on branding, graphic design, front-end coding, and interactive websites.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Turned EU regulation into working digital product passport.
Product lead across client projects, coaching designers while staying hands on.
- Electrolux: designed the manufacturing measurement tools for a 30+ site landscape, piloted across three, on the first shared downtime vocabulary.
- Digitaal Vlaanderen: turned a government healthcare platform around after two failed iterations, introducing user research across 13+ facility types.
- ECS: designed a
Bisq had plans to add multiple currencies on their platform what complicated the UX. Working close with a product owner / data-scientist, I redesigned their orderbook and made a prototype of how the new version could work.
Bisq is an open-source desktop application that allows you to buy and sell bitcoin in exchange for national currencies or alternative cryptocurrencies.
3day spint doing UX, Wi
Leading a team of designers to build Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning solutions for a range of industries. Taking care of the daily design operations and communication with developers, marketing, data-scientists and managers.
Toegther with my team, we optimised the usability and did a rebranding of the platform so it could be used by a broader market segment.
Researched and prototyped the a MM$ enterprise platform in the steel industry (UX + UI)
Created a design system, story-mapping and iterative way of working to ensure system flow, resulting in an improved way of working for operators, developers and product-owners.
Worked closely with developers and graphic design specialists to build out processes to enhance the customer experience.
Provided Product Design services to include: Paper mockups, static wireframes (UXpin), visual design (Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator), and Interactive wireframes (invisionapp).
Handled the re-branding and online marketing to turn an old French “sleeping wine domain” into a successful brand that sold 100k bottles of premium wine per year. Featured in The Times and rated 90+ by Parker.
Founded a design studio (while studying for a MS in Fine Art) that offered project management, graphic design and front-end coding. Built interactive websites for local entrepreneurs, film festivals and the packaging industry.
Clients: Afrika Film Festival, Brussels Filmfestival, Pack2Pack, Omniform ...
Webdesigner at Kasper Digital Media.
Webmaster at ASP Software Productions N.V.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
CareerFoundry
UX , Product Design
CareerFoundry is a 6-month intensive training program for UX Designers, specializing in UX process and methodology, data driven approaches to strategy as well as prototyping, wireframing, and conversion rate optimization.
Ghent University
Micro degree, Information Technology Knowledge Graphs
2025 - 2026
Knowledge graps and Open Data (RDF)
HOWEST Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen
XR Developer Microdegree, Modeling
2024 - 2024
KU Leuven
User centered design, Human-Computer Interaction
2008 - 2008
Introduction to User Centered Design
Cognitive Psychology
User and taskanalyse
Conceptual analyse
GUI's and platforms
Information architecture
Navigation models
Prototyping
Standardization and styleguides
Accessibility
Expert review
User tests
Future UID
HOGENT
Master In Visual Arts, option Mixed-Media
2003 - 2006
Experimenting with Digtal Art (generative design, Audio-Visual installations, motion design, ...)
End project: an interactive paintings for Brussels Airport, based on big-data from airplane schedules. Featured in "Huis Van De Toekomst" (livingtomorrow.com)
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