Sebastian Sebald
Software Architect at Reservix, Freiburg
I work at the intersection of code and user experience. Lately that means building a design system for a product that's two decades old, and for everything that comes next.
Notes
Where the Map Ends
A modern frontend had been quietly hiding underneath a legacy UI. Taking the disguise off was supposed to be the visible payoff. What followed was something else: organizational inertia, hard conversations, and workflows users had quietly built around the product's flaws.
Failing Forward at Design Systems
Building a design system for a 20-year-old product looked like a tidy problem on paper. Components, tokens, documentation. Every assumption I had fell apart along the way, and I slowly learned to stop confusing the map for the territory.