Noa Reinholt

Designing map interfaces that hold up in the field

Ten years spent between cartography, interface design and the data pipelines underneath them. I work best where a map is the product rather than a decorative layer — shoreline atlases, grid monitoring, route and wayfinding systems.

My practice runs end to end: interviewing the surveyors and operators who will use the thing, shaping the data model with engineers, then designing and building the front end so the cartographic intent survives implementation. I write production TypeScript and SQL, which keeps design decisions honest about what the data can actually support.

I care about legibility under bad conditions — low bandwidth, bright sun, a tablet in a dry bag, a screen reader. Accessible, printable, and readable offline are design requirements in my work, not late additions.