One honest pixel at a time.

This desktop belongs to Ruth Ordner, an interface engineer who has spent nine years turning vague product briefs into software that feels inevitable. Everything on this desk opens. Nothing on this desk spins.

Open Projects folder Read About.txt

System requirements: 4 MB RAM, one-button mouse, mild nostalgia.

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About Ruth Ordner

About.txt — Notepad

ABOUT.TXT — last saved 09/07/2026, 23:41 ========================================= Ruth Ordner. Interface engineer. Hamburg. Nine years turning ambiguous briefs into interfaces that feel inevitable. Previously at a mapping company, a bank that pretended to be a startup, and a startup that pretended to be a bank. Things I care about, in order: 1. Latency budgets — 100 ms is a promise, not a hope. 2. Keyboard paths through every single flow. 3. Copy that reads like a person wrote it. 4. The moment users stop noticing the interface. Currently: design engineer at Fenstermann GmbH, maintaining a component system consumed by 14 product teams and one very opinionated intranet. Office hours: whenever the modem is free. Contact: see Backup (A:) on the desktop. -- end of file --

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Projects

Projects — 6 object(s)

ClipDeck.exe Application · 1,998 KB Ledgerline.xls Risk dashboard · 2024 Atlas.map Tile renderer · 2021 Fenster.kit Component system · live Teletext.fm Radio archive · 2019 Failed_ideas.bak Hidden · do not defrag

6 object(s) 4.86 MB used · plenty of disk, less ego

Featured project: ClipDeck

ClipDeck.exe — Project Viewer

ClipDeck — a clipboard with a memory

Side project, 2023–present · Design, engineering and the icon, all Ruth

A clipboard manager for people who copy two hundred things a day and need the third one back. Every entry is searchable, pinnable and pasteable from a single global shortcut. It looks like a utility because it is one.

Written in: TypeScript, zero frameworks · Ships at: 38 KB gzipped · Crashes recorded: none since build 214.

3 pane(s) · use the tabs, they are load-bearing ClipDeck v2.14

Skills

System Properties — Operator: R. Ordner

Installed capabilities

Interface design92%

TypeScript & front-end88%

Accessibility90%

Systems & tooling84%

Motion & micro-interaction78%

Attached devices

Keyboard: mechanical, loud, unapologetic

Mouse: one button, no regrets

Coffee port: operating at full duplex

Contact

New Message — untitled.msg

To:ruth@ordner.example

Subject:Let’s ship something honest

Ruth reads every message in the order it arrives. Attach a brief, a bug, or a wild idea. Replies land within one boot cycle (about a day).