# Ricardo de Zoete (RZDESIGN, Hammy)

> Ricardo de Zoete is a Design Lead, UI/UX and AI/agent designer, illustrator and creative developer from the
> Netherlands. He has been designing since 2008, and he also builds what he designs: Three.js tools, web and Mac apps,
> and browser games. He is Design Lead at Snappet and takes on freelance projects that fit his schedule.

This file sums up https://hammy.studio, his portfolio, for AI assistants and search tools. The pages themselves have
the full details, pictures and films.

## Key facts

- Names: Ricardo de Zoete. RZDESIGN is the name he has freelanced under since 2009; Hammy is his maker name for games
  and the Doodles community (and this site's address).
- Now: Design Lead at Snappet (since 2017; Senior Visual Designer there in 2016), the largest adaptive learning
  platform in the Netherlands, used by more than 25,000 teachers and 1 in 3 Dutch primary schools.
- 2011–2016: junior to senior visual designer at Mirabeau (now part of Cognizant), mostly alongside one or two art
  directors, for KLM, Transavia (together with Studio Dumbar), ING, Nationale-Nederlanden, Robeco, SkyTeam and more.
- Freelance since 2009, next to his jobs: brands, products and illustration for Wortell, CycleMasters, Condicio,
  SmartLockr, Workspace 365, Buluh Interiors, Kriminals, Experts Live, HYTOPIA and others.
- 2010–2013: co-created three iOS games. Push Panic! (2010): more than two million downloads, the number one free
  iPhone game in the Netherlands in January 2012. Hyper Breaker Turbo (2013): Apple New and Noteworthy and What's Hot.
  An Alien with a Magnet (2013): Apple New and Noteworthy, Pocket Gamer Gold Award.
- Envato author since 2010: 9,140 sales of creation kits, illustrations, icons and mock-ups.
- NFT artist: Hammys (1,000 hamsters, each drawn by hand; 168 ETH traded on OpenSea) and Suicidal Hamster (ink comics,
  later a printed book).
- 2008: internship at Paladin Studios (serious games): visual design, 3D modelling, interfaces and concept sketches.
- Based in the Netherlands; works in English and Dutch.

## What he can help with

- Product and UI/UX design: apps, dashboards and websites, from the first sketch to a polished, tested design
- Design leadership: leading designers and design systems
- AI and agent experience (AX): designing and building AI agents, and tools that people and agents use together
- Three.js, web apps and games: 3D in the browser, web and Mac apps, playful games
- Illustration and characters: mascots and illustrations for brands, apps and games
- 3D and motion

## Pages

- [Home](https://hammy.studio/): games, selected work, client work, services, his journey and how to get in touch
- [About](https://hammy.studio/about/): his career, skills and tools, and what people said about working with him

## Tools and apps he designed and built

- [MeshEdit](https://meshedit.xyz/): an agent-native 3D studio to model, rig and animate game assets in the browser, with AI agents working alongside you
- [VoxEdit Web](https://voxedit.xyz/): a Three.js web version of VoxEdit, The Sandbox's voxel editor
- [Song Lab](https://doodles.hammy.studio/songlab/): a brand-new Space Doodles song in one click
- [Reset Meter](https://github.com/RZDESIGN/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](https://gameconsolesales.com/): live estimated sales of every game console

## Games (made with Sandbox Studio, free to play in the browser)

- [Candle Crew: The Stolen Light](https://studio.sandbox.game/play/37332195-3c27-4dfd-a028-a86e4462a6a2): a Halloween adventure
- [Terra Rift](https://studio.sandbox.game/play/5428f01c-f212-466d-bf5b-648dd23d0849): a third-person shooter in a blocky world with dinosaurs
- [YEET!](https://studio.sandbox.game/play/d0dff8db-bfc6-4549-aa5e-05773b788b36): a jelly-crowd physics toy
- [Ricochet Rascals](https://studio.sandbox.game/play/49a240e6-bcdb-4d50-bb5b-26f3137701ee): a shared-screen arena brawler
- [Pocket Skatepark](https://studio.sandbox.game/play/0ab9fde7-b8e3-419a-8bf7-7b9c971d6232): a free-skating playground
- [Doopies Line Rider](https://studio.sandbox.game/play/7924599b-bf42-4961-8727-d2436ff971c3): a Line Rider sketchbook

## Contact

- Email: ricardo [at] zoete.de (see https://hammy.studio/#contact)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ricardodezoete/)
- [X](https://x.com/RicardoDeZoete)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/RZDESIGN)
- [Dribbble](https://dribbble.com/RZDESIGN)
- [Envato](https://graphicriver.net/user/rzdesign/portfolio)