My name is Felix Häberle. I'm a German he/him currently working on dev tools for internationalization (i18n) at inlang, where we also build a new kid of version control system called "lix".
Open source is at the heart of my work with a special focus on accessibility and performance, with my recent job also i18n. Well known for my expertise in frontend development, I worked with various clients in the past creating all kinds and sizes of web applications (see Work).
These days, I mainly create things in the JS/TS ecosystem, but also have a deep understanding of the PHP stack with focus on Drupal.
Code is a medium through which I realize my designs. The design part always comes first and defines the code. Creating meaningful interaction comes with understanding the user.
That's why, in addition to my technical background, I like to create interaction and design. Especially, with a talented & motivated team.
I love going outside to enjoy nature and do sports like gym, swimming and biking. Keeping fit and healthy is really important to me and it gets me the energy to do the creative work.
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Research and Ideation
Focusing on what the user needs,
not the product.
Good ideas can be hard and are often based on a good analysis of the challenge. They can be wild & visual or calm & concept based. At the end, the resulting design should be well tested and pay up to the user needs. To achieve this, I work with an interdisciplinary toolchain.
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The creative part
A structured way to create magic,
without magic.
I learned to understand how people think and to care about environmental and social challenges and find the best solution for it. Creative outcome is no magic moment — it’s about caring for the users. That’s my way to think about how to approach creativity: be an inclusive provider.
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Technical background
Based in frontend development,
now designing & developing.
With over 5 years of creative agency experience and 30+ websites build, I have a solid experience working with all kinds of tech & customers. Additionally, I’m highly involved in Open Source doing design & development for various projects.
Professional Experience
inlang is a whole ecosystem of building blocks for your globalization (internationalization / i18n) efforts with the goal of helping companies enter new markets in no time.
Next-gen personal website that helps you showcase your projects, skills, and experience. You can personalize it by an evergrowing collection of building blocks, build your own blocks and analyse your growth.
Building healthy open-source should be fun. Zirkular connects contributors and maintainers in a community-first workspace with goal-oriented communication, efficient workflows and smart automations.
KXL employs a human-centered approach to develop agile services and digital products across Allianz's various divisions, including Sales & Distribution, Asset Management, Property & Casualty, Health & Life, and Business Insurance.
Melo is the place where you can manage, edit and distribute the sounds of your digital experience. Together with a talented team we're creating the sound interaction tool of tomorrow. Sign up to get an early preview! 🎛
Design and developing engaging experiences for the real estate sector, with a focus on performance, interoperability and accessibility. The implemented solutions use an API-first Drupal installation with various frontends, like an website, app and digital signage.
Co-founded "format+". format+ ist the digital sister of the printed magazine "Format", which is published by design students at the HfG. The online-magazine covers design-relevant topics. Also helping with the development of OpenMoji, an open-source emoji set. https://openmoji.org/
Design & Development for clients like @KNIME, @HolidayCheck or @burriworld & many more. Check out the "Project" page to dive into this work.
Applied Computer Science (B.Sc.). The most important feature is the integration of theory and practical experience: Students regularly switch between theoretical phases at the university and practical phases at the work placement.
Education
Next-gen developer portfolio that helps you showcase your projects, skills, and experience. Personalize it by an an evergrowing collection of building blocks and analyse your growth.
Certified individuals possess extensive knowledge of AWS services and can create secure and durable solutions based on client needs. They excel at designing efficient, scalable, and fault-tolerant distributed systems using architectural principles.
Interaction Design (IxD) is the design of interactive products and services in which a designer’s focus goes beyond the item in development to include the way users will interact with it. @HfG we learn interaction design at the intersection of design, psychology, mechanical engineering and computer science – rooted in the Bauhaus.
Media designers specializing in the field "design and technology" design products and plan production processes. They learn to create designs and how to develop them. This apprenticeship gives a practical deep-dive in the topics digital design and web development.
Students of Applied Computer Science focus on the planning, modelling, design and implementation of complex software and hardware systems and processes. Dropped out to build projects for clients.
Open Source
Among a lot of community work & meetups I challenged myself with the contribution to the Drupal Design System which we build up from scratch. This teamwork led to an excellent new Admin UI for Drupal named Claro. I helped building the frontend components for the Claro theme which is now used by over 200.000 sites.
Student-driven open source emoji library which covers over 3600+ unicode emojis and is updated regularly. All emojis are free to use under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. All emojis follow a single style guide and fit perfectly together. OpenMoji supports the Fitzpatrick skin tones scale and multiple skin tone combinations as of Emoji v13.
Created a captive portal (wifi login system) for the open source firewall system pfsense. Later, this project was added to the pfsense codebase as a community contribution because the default captive portal needed a refresh.
Fun Facts
I’m a firefighter! Since I am attending university, I am currently taking a break from it – but I’m soon at it again.
I’ve done flatland unicycling. During my active time (2008 - 2015) I participated at championships all over Europe. I’m very proud of this achievement.