Jan { Van Boghout }

Hello interverse traveller! I’m Jan, a Belgian with a passion for building products. My work centers around software architecture and user experience, but I dabble in the analog world with the occasional painting or interior piece. I chase elegance and heart in all things design and engineering.

You can find me in Paris working for the fruit company, eating too many pastries. Say hi over on Bluesky and Instagram, or send me an electronic mail.

#nowplaying ♪ Disco Nap (feat. Metronomy) ♪ Polo & Pan

Work: Apple , Framer , MacRabbit

Before joining Apple and Framer, I grew MacRabbit from a high school hobby into an award-winning software company. It was an amazing journey that, together with my computer science background, fundamentally shaped my approach to product, engineering and team building. We shipped a number of successful Mac web development and design apps.

• CSSEdit. Apple Design Award winning visual editor for style sheets. Pioneered live reloading and taught a generation CSS as the de facto tool for web designers on Mac.
• Espresso. Extensible IDE applying the same concepts to general web development, including a static website builder and publishing tools. Acquired and available at espressoapp.com
• Slicy. Image asset exporter that eliminated the need to prepare and slice designs for exporting. Established the modern paradigm of tagging layers in context, quickly adopted by the wider industry.
• Codename Mg. Vector design tool with modern exporting, infinite undo, HTML/CSS integration and Photoshop-compatible rendering. Not released after legal challenges during critical development.

A big part of my life, these got a personal farewell in Fifteen Crazy Years: A Toast to Life

PS: for English speakers, Jan is somewhere between yawn and yann.