Lukas Oppermann

Staff Systems Designer at GitHub

Expertise: Design and UX

Education: BTK University of Art and Design

Lukas Oppermann is staff systems designer at GitHub and the former principal experience designer and design lead at Deutsche Telekom. Oppermann has also headed up his own UI/UX firm, veare, since 2005. He has served as a design lead for Daimler AG’s (now the Mercedez-Benz Group) incubator, Lab1886, and as a senior UI/UX designer for Bosch’s eBike product line and Aperto IBM iX. He has given lectures on digital product design at Macromedia University and interaction design at Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule, Oppermann’s alma mater.

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Updated on April 12, 2024

Gestalt Theory: A Refresher on the Psychological Principle Every Designer Should Know

Visual designers, consciously or not, make frequent use of gestalt principles in their work. Read on to learn more about the theory that influences design everywhere.

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Updated on April 20, 2024

Solving UI Problems: Precision

How precise is too precise?

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Updated on May 28, 2025

11 Benefits of Design Systems for Designers, Developers, Product Owners and Teams

Design systems are centralized collections of design patterns, components and code decisions that help standardize user interface (UI) development.

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Updated on July 08, 2025

Creating an NPM-Only Build Step for JavaScript — the Easy Way

When writing front-end code, don’t overlook the capabilities your Node.js package manager already has.

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Updated on April 01, 2024

The Gestalt Principle of Proximity for Designers, Explained

Including illustrated examples of the proximity principle in action.