Jens Nikolaus

Designer Who Builds, Enterprise B2B, Dev Tooling

My career was shaped in distinct blocks Last.fm in London, start-ups and studios in Berlin, then enterprise platforms in the US. The last eight years have been Enterprise B2B and developer tooling: HPE GreenLake, then pganalyze, where I lead product and design initiatives alongside engineers solving deep, technical problems for technical users, and their managers.

Recent Highlights

Shipped with the pganalyze team

2026

MCP Server

AI assistants like Claude Code and Cursor connect to pganalyze to query metrics, inspect plans, and review open issues.

WIP

What I’m building right now, when I’m not at work.

WIP is now a grid. Every piece sits on one canvas: pan and zoom around, open any piece, step through the rest. Three random stills on the WIP page lead into it.

Phone screenshot of a WIP post with the floating nav pill at the bottom of the screen

Updated nav pill

Footer nav now floats as a pill: there when a page opens, gone when you scroll, docked when you reach the footer.

See all WIP

Notes

Featured: Good DesignWork in ProgressLetter to Future SelfFrom Execution to Taking OwnershipBefore We Talk More Design, Here's My StoryFeatured: I Was the Fastest Designer in Figma. It Didn't Matter.Design Principles at pganalyze