Photo Danny Giebe

Hej, I’m Danny.

An independent design system architect and founder currently based in Cyprus.

I’ve spent the past 18 years helping launch and reimagine digital products for startups and enterprises.

In 2021, I founded Seven Whys, a Cyprus-based design studio specializing in tokenized design systems for digital products. Outside the studio, I build my own products: Jory and Triphunt, a couple of other apps already in the App Store, and Figma plugins for design teams.

I also mentor teenagers at StartupTeens and working professionals at ADPList.

What I’m working on.

built on top of Seven Whys, one wider skillset at a time

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Design Studio

Seven Whys

Seven Whys supports enterprises in building and maintaining tokenized design systems for digital product teams

Visit Seven Whys

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iOS & Android App

Triphunt

Triphunt is a outdoor adventure app for hikers and cyclists who plan trips with friends, not solo.

Visit Triphunt
Triphunt app screens showing a hiking route detail card and an interactive route map with elevation stats
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iOS App

Jory

Jory turns a big yearly goal into an actual daily to-do list, instead of a resolution that fades out by February.

Visit Jory
Jory app screens showing a yearly goals list and a weekly goal-planning dashboard
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iOS App

Lüftungsprotokoll

Lüftungsprotokoll logs room ventilation as a timestamped, exportable record, for anyone who needs to prove it happened, not just a vague habit tracker.

Download for iOS
Lüftungsprotokoll app screens showing the room ventilation log and a Live Activity lock-screen countdown widget

Further Projects

Figma plugins, side apps, and smaller experiments.

How I Build

Just getting ideas out of my mind.

I like making things and getting them out into the world, and what I actually care about is the ride, what I get to learn along the way, not just the moment something ships.

I’ve watched the same pattern play out more than once: people I built with faded out once a project stopped being exciting and turned into work. So somewhere along the way, I stopped waiting for a team to hold together and just started finishing things myself.

Seven Whys is the narrower slice of what I do, the part where I turn ambiguity into a system: reusable components, documented rules, decisions a team can trust without checking with me twice. My own products asked for everything around that slice too, from SwiftUI and Xcode to App Store optimization, SEO, running ads, and the whole publish-and-maintain cycle, none of which client work ever required. That wider range is the real difference, not some separate discipline, and it already makes my client work sharper.

Building is my playground, the one place everything I know how to do gets used on the same problem at once. Given the choice, I’d rather commit to a plan and extend it as new data comes in than chase a moonshot because a feeling told me to. I don’t treat consulting and building as different jobs, they run on the same work ethic. I just had to learn a wider set of skills to do it all without anyone else in the room.

Let’s connect

Do you have feedback or just want to connect? Check out my socials.

Just slide in my DMs

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