Jan Amann

With millions of monthly visits, Setlist.fm is one of the most popular music services worldwide and enables its users to share their knowledge about concert setlists. The team from Molindo set out to relaunch the core experience of adding and editing setlists and hired me to implement the user interface.

The front end of the project consists of four React widgets. These integrate seamlessly with the existing web stack of the platform and communicate with a GraphQL API. To live up to mobile apps' high expectations, the implementation pays special attention to touch gestures, useful animations, runtime performance, and an offline-first approach to data.

Alpine Electronics is an international enterprise specializing in car audio and navigation systems used by manufacturers such as BMW, Audi, Mercedes, and many others. The company counts more than 13,000 employees and wanted to take their data management apps to the next level by utilizing a React-based component library that could be used in flexible ways.

To meet this challenge, a team of six front-end specialists was formed. My contribution was to gather requirements in on-site workshops, specification of features and component APIs, UX design, front-end development, code reviews, and the definition of GraphQL APIs. A set of more than 150 components now provide the foundation for 20 application packages and counting.

Küchenfinder is an Austrian platform operated by Molindo, which helps you to purchase a new kitchen. More than two million users visit the site per year to leverage a data-driven search engine to connect with qualified experts.

I developed multiple React apps for the platform, covering a kitchen configurator for customers, an app for experts in managing customer inquiries, and one for admins to configure core data. I also developed a GraphQL API in Node.js, which provides clients with performant access to distributed data from REST microservices.

This is an open-source library that I built to manage global loading and error states in React apps that utilize Apollo Client and GraphQL. Currently, the library is being downloaded more than 30,000 times per month (as of September 2020).

To push my boundaries when it comes to advanced user experiences that rely on touch gestures, I build prototypes that showcase new patterns. This exploration has covered physics engines, observables, and React integrations.

Shoemondo helps you to find your next favorite pair of shoes and recommends the cheapest store to buy them. As a first step, 12 partner stores were integrated to offer an extensive product range. I designed the user interface and implemented it as a server-side rendered React app that communicates with a GraphQL API.