Ricardo de Zoete
Available for freelance
Hi, I'm Ricardo de Zoete
From illustration, motion and 3D to UI/UX, design leadership, AI agents and Three.js: more than 17 years of making digital products, games and art. Design Lead at Snappet, based in the Netherlands, and open to freelance projects.
Most of them at Mirabeau, a Cognizant Digital Business.
As a freelancer, next to my role at Snappet.
Clear, friendly apps, dashboards and websites, from the first sketch to a polished, tested design.
Snappet, Mirabeau clients, my own tools
Leading designers and design systems, and making a whole product feel like one.
Design Lead at Snappet since 2017
Designing and building AI agents, and tools that people and agents use together.
I build what I design: 3D in the browser, web and Mac apps, and playful games.
Mascots, characters and illustrations with personality, for brands, apps and games.
Illustration, 9,140 sales on Envato
3D models, animation and motion design, from serious games to product visuals.
Paladin Studios, MeshEdit, VoxEdit Web
Made with Sandbox Studio for The Sandbox, free to play in your browser.
Gameplay
Halloween Game Jam 2026
One night to bring back the light.
A scarecrow stole the Heart Lantern and every light in the village. Wind up your music box, wake a crew of hopping little candles, feed hungry pumpkins, burn down the thorns and face the spider and the Snuffer before dawn.
Gameplay
Third-person shooter
The rift is open. The dinosaurs are out.
Blast your way through a blocky world where every rocket carves the terrain: fight bot squads across sky islands and a volcanic crater, ride a T-rex, and shoot your own portals with the Rift Projector.
Gameplay
Jelly-crowd chaos
Crown yourself gummy king.
Grab a jelly person out of a crowd of hundreds and send it flying. Merge the same colours into ever bigger boys until one wears the crown, then fuse two kings into something unholy.
Gameplay
Couch multiplayer
Curve the blade. Last rascal standing.
A shared-screen arena brawler: jump, strike and curve boomerang blades at your friends, with everyone on one screen and bots to fill the empty seats.
Gameplay
Free skating
Ramps, rails and a whole city to roll through.
A tiny free-skating playground: push off, catch air off the ramps, grind the rails and roll out into the streets.
Gameplay
Doopies galaxy
Draw the line. Ride the rainbow.
A Line Rider sketchbook in the Doopies galaxy: draw rainbow lines with your mouse or finger, press play and watch a doopie roll down them toward the rainbow portal.
The iOS games I co-created and shipped in 2010–2013.
Swing a little alien from planet to planet with nothing but a magnet. I did the art, the interface, the logo and the marketing and shaped the game design; Lukas Hoenderdos (Rejected Games) wrote the code. Apple featured it in New and Noteworthy, and Pocket Gamer gave it a Gold Award.
A brick breaker turned up to eleven, in retro, neon and doodle styles. Art, interface and game design by me, code by Barry Kostjens. Apple featured it in New and Noteworthy and What’s Hot.
My first game: a frantic falling-blocks puzzle, made with Barry Kostjens. It went on to more than two million downloads and was the number one free iPhone game in the Netherlands in January 2012.
Tools and apps I designed and built myself, illustration where it all started, and my collections.
New
MeshEdit
An agent-native 3D studio: model, rig and animate game assets in your browser, with AI agents working alongside you.
VoxEdit Web
My Three.js web version of VoxEdit, The Sandbox's voxel editor: build and animate voxel characters right in your browser.
Song Lab
Make a brand-new Space Doodles song in one click, played on instruments sampled from the Doodles' loops.
Reset Meter
A free, open-source Mac menu-bar app that shows how much of your Codex, Claude and Cursor usage is left.
Game Console Sales
Live estimated sales of every game console, with all-time rankings and head-to-head comparisons.
Brands, products and illustration for clients: freelance since 2016, and before that at Mirabeau.
Next to my work at Snappet, 2016–2024.
A new brand for a Dutch Microsoft partner, and everything around it: sub-brands for every service, a cast of mascots, isometric service maps and office murals, two style guides, a website concept, a security dashboard and animated films.
A brand and a streaming product for indoor cycling: browse classes and instructors, ride along with power, heart rate and cadence on screen, follow multi-week programmes, on the web and in an app.
A rebrand for a Microsoft security consultancy: a >_ emblem, a brand guide, icons, an isometric illustration world with a fox mascot, an infographic of their security operations centre and a website concept.
The brand and about two hundred screens for a secure file-sharing platform: Outlook and Office 365 add-ins, logging in with two factors, secure channels, an upload portal and the admin console.
A new brand and a redesign of a digital workplace where every app and file is a tile: white-label branding, editing your tiles, a tile store and a phone version.
A new logo and responsive interface for a Dutch browser MMORPG, and the casino to go with it: poker, blackjack and roulette tables, a deck of 52 cards and chips.
An identity for a wooden interiors brand, with a wood-grain B, a gift card and product photography art-directed and rendered with AI.
An event identity for Experts Live, a monster viewer for HYTOPIA, Bomberman for Zippii!, sales dashboards for ROKZ, the interface of Flow Frenzy (featured on Google Play) and a handful of logos.
Made at Mirabeau, 2011–2016: design languages, product design, concepts and illustration.
A new digital style for KLM in five principles (transitional interfaces, use all dimensions, focus is key, serious fun, no pixels) and three style spheres for utility, inspiration and information, brought to life in a style guide, concept screens and concept videos.
A search box that answers instead of listing links. Ask about your baggage, the weather in Barcelona or flamingos on Aruba, and get one friendly, personal answer, with spelling help and a phone version: conversational design, years before every site had a chatbot.
Illustrated top-down seat maps for the KLM and Air France fleets, from the Fokker 70 to the A380, all drawn from one kit of seats, galleys, toilets and exits, and used while booking on klm.com.
Bringing Transavia's 2015 rebrand (identity by Dumbar) to its website: booking, choosing a seat inside the plane, luggage, My Transavia and the e-ticket.
A site for ING Commercial Banking that starts with a question instead of a menu: pick your topics, region and industry, and the stories arrange themselves around you, on every screen.
A clean, focused web shop for one of Hong Kong's biggest supermarket chains: designed in Scrum sprints, user tested, and responsive down to the phone.
A redesign of ordering on Takeaway.com, from where you live to the restaurants around you, their menus and checkout, with illustrations, a photography test and the app’s start screen.
A banking dashboard where income, spending and savings orbit one circle, with comparisons to people like you, tips that save money and peer-to-peer investing.
A brighter rebrand for the Dutch casino chain, “Hét casino voor iedereen”: a new logo, a style study and a redesigned website.
A private bank's asset report in 3D: holdings become blocks you can orbit, split by asset class and zoom into, one fund at a time.
A concept where your subscriptions, friends and favourite shows live on an isometric island, and a series of illustrated ideas for new KPN services.
3D icons for Mammoet, a scrapbook for Nationale-Nederlanden, icon sets for PGGM, APG and Kruidvat, the MoneYou mascot, and a card game about Mirabeau's own core values.
Illustrator, motion designer, 3D artist, UI/UX designer, Design Lead, and now AI and creative tech.
Visual design, 3D modelling, interfaces and concept sketches for serious games.
Started freelancing as a visual designer and illustrator, with mascots and illustrations for small Dutch companies.
Began selling creation kits, illustrations, icons and fonts on GraphicRiver: 9,140 sales so far.
Co-created and shipped Push Panic!, Hyper Breaker Turbo and An Alien with a Magnet: art, interface and game design, with Barry Kostjens and Lukas Hoenderdos. Featured by Apple, and a Pocket Gamer Gold Award.
From junior to senior visual designer: rebrandings, apps and concepts for future devices for KLM, Transavia, ING, Nationale Nederlanden and many more.
Senior Visual Designer at the largest adaptive learning platform in the Netherlands.
Brands, products and illustration next to Snappet, for Wortell, CycleMasters, Condicio, SmartLockr, Workspace 365 and more.
Leading design for a platform used by more than 25,000 teachers and 1 in 3 Dutch primary schools.
Designing and training AI agents, building Three.js tools like MeshEdit and VoxEdit Web, games for The Sandbox, and Song Lab.
Need a designer who can also build? I take on freelance projects next to my role at Snappet: UI/UX, design leadership, AI and agent design, illustration and Three.js.
