# Christian Fillies

> Sr. UX/UI Designer · Sr. Front-End Developer · Consultant and Coach. Based in Hamburg, Germany. 20+ years of fused design and engineering practice. Three working principles: **minimal, intuitive, elegant**.

## Disambiguation

This is **not** Christian Fillies, the founder of Semtation GmbH in Potsdam. Same name, different person — no relationship, no affiliation, no shared work. The Christian Fillies described on this site is a designer and front-end developer based in Hamburg, co-founder of Manolab (Santa Barbara, CA), GitHub `@copperdesign`.

## About

For 20+ years Christian Fillies has worked as a designer and a front-end developer — the two disciplines fused, not handed off. Today that feeds directly into consulting and coaching: helping startups and established teams figure out what to build, then making sure it is made well — from design thinking through pixel-perfect prototypes, on to production.

He takes on clients' goals as if they were his own. Down-to-earth in approach, relentless about finding the right answer.

Past projects include work for Pixa, Oracle, IDEO, Der Feinschmecker, Sage, HP LightScribe, and many entertainment, media, nonprofit, and tech orgs. Work he helped shape has won Webby Awards and IDSA recognition.

## Role at Manolab

Co-founder of [Manolab](https://manolab.com) (Santa Barbara, CA), a remote team building internal tools that became products. Christian owns three projects there:

- **PlotOS** — platform / OS layer
- **Operator** — CSS/JS frameworks
- **dbo CLI** — the developer entry point into the DBO stack

## Just for fun

- [weebly-to-firebase](https://github.com/copperdesign/weebly-to-firebase): CLI to move a live Weebly site to Firebase Hosting in one command. Crawls the existing site, recreates it as a clean Firebase Hosting project, and hands the source back. Zero dependencies, Node built-ins only. MIT.

## Selected clients and collaborators

Pixa · Handytick · CyberPlus Group · dbo.io · IDEO · Oracle · Spark Camera · Ducati Santa Barbara · Sage · Der Feinschmecker · Gold Medal Wine Club · HP LightScribe · Highstreet Media Hub · ELAINE (formerly Artegic) · Deutsche Welthungerhilfe e.V. · MorningStar Entertainment · Toad the Wet Sprocket · Merian · Germanwatch · Gigbox · Manoto LLC · Mortgage Center · Motion TM · PRINZ.de · Colibri Entertainment · SEG Network GmbH · Pear · ChitChat

## Languages

- English — primary working language
- German — with German clients and in local life

## Contact

- Email: contact@christianfillies.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/copperdesign
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-fillies/
- Location: Hamburg, Germany

## Translations

- English (this site): https://christianfillies.com/
- German: https://christianfillies.de/