About Fred
Hi, I'm Fred (Van Geloven), digital product designer. I currently live in Massachusetts (USA) with my wife and son. This is my website.
Hi, I'm Fred (Van Geloven), digital product designer. I currently live in Massachusetts (USA) with my wife and son. This is my website.
Bruce Springsteen — Streets of Minneapolis
Woody Guthrie would be proud. We need more of this. Every single American* needs to speak up and take a stand. When we look back, "I didn't know" or "I didn't want to make things political" won't be an acceptable excuse. You do know, and at some point everything becomes political.
*Non-Americans can and should too: Billy Bragg — City of Heroes Â
This is taste. The relentless, almost painful ability to know what should exist, what shouldn't, and where quality matters.
Another dream job I sometimes daydream about: Experience Designer at Tracksmith. If you don't know Tracksmith, they're a New England running brand with an aesthetic that's a bit vintage, a bit classical, but with a modern, minimalist edge. Think wool singlets and split shorts that…
I’ll be honest with you, I don’t love the idea of artificial intelligence. There are many things about it I don’t like. Even the basic premise, that this technology is intelligent doesn’t match my definition of the term. Real intelligence requires more than connecting a…
With all the volatility that's been going on at work, I've been thinking about dream jobs lately. Not the ambitious, climb-the-ladder kind. The other kind — jobs that sound genuinely pleasant to do day-to-day, even if they might never happen. First up: farmer at Park…
Looks like I'm no longer #open-to-work...
Lumina Corps and CommunicateHealth Merge to Strengthen Health Communication Impact.
Figma's built-in color contrast checker is so helpful! I used to rely on a few different plugins to check color contrast. Some of those had features Figma is missing, but I love how integrated the Figma tool is. The line and dotted pattern to indicate…
An update to my #Open-To-Work post is in order. Turns out, we retained some of the contracts that we thought were ending. While the situation in public health communication and govtech design is still volatile, it looks like my tenure at CommunicateHealth can continue for…
How cool is this dataviz project?!