Linus Lehbrink

Design Engineer

I design and build software, taking ideas through to polished products. Working across the interface and the systems behind it lets me make product decisions and carry them into the implementation quickly, with close attention to how the finished experience looks, feels and works.

Co-founder of

nullzwei, a design and development studio.
Previously at

OpenPurpose®. Recent work includes

Nothing,

Plasticity,

Born,

Essential and

S7RX.

Message

Nothing®
I engineered Nothing's entire website front end and visual editor, bringing product stories and shopping together and enabling the team to build and publish launch pages in days, not weeks.
Plasticity
At nullzwei, I unified Plasticity's CAD UI with React components and hundreds of icons, and designed Asset Libraries so users could organize and reuse parts across projects.
Thinkeo
At OpenPurpose, I built Thinkeo's full UI and component library, then designed its node-based editor for complex automations. The platform reports 10× faster RFP responses.
Born
I connected Born's products with its direction in social AI through a custom Framer site, bringing Gramática Studio's design to life with bespoke interactions.
Essential
I brought Essential's identity to life for launch in two weeks, translating Elodie Fabbri's design into animated typography and a cursor-responsive video background.
OpenPurpose®
Over 2½ years, I helped turn OpenPurpose's early ideas into working products, building applications for its ventures while leading projects and shaping creative direction.
UserFaces
I led creative direction for UserFaces at OpenPurpose®, a collection of digital avatars, and built the entire platform and apps around it.

Personal projects

People say the internet never forgets, but I think it forgets pretty quickly. Websites are shipped, updated, and replaced every week, and AI is accelerating that pace. I built archive.directory to keep a record of the versions along the way.

It’s an invite-only tool for saving websites as browsable copies. Enter a link, choose the pages to keep, and it captures their content, images, styles, and scripts. A visual library and version history make it easy to revisit them later.

My fork of Rybbit, an open-source web analytics platform. I added heatmaps that show where people click and how far they scroll, helping you understand what gets their attention and what gets missed.

Performance is design, too. I made the tracker with session recording 62% smaller while keeping all its features, so it downloads faster and saves 57.5 GB of bandwidth per million downloads.

Before

93.1 kB

After

62% smaller

35.6 kB

Heatmaps

7.2 kB

Core tracker
Session recording
Heatmaps

Core + session recording compared; heatmaps load separately.

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GitHub

Before working at OpenPurpose, I worked independently with dozens of brands in the fashion industry and fine arts to build out their websites and products.