Facts

Dominik Heilig is a product manager and designer based in Berlin, Germany.

Also written: Aisu.Studio

Facts

• He has worked in design since 1998 and in product management since 2014.
• He designs, builds and operates his own software products under the name Aisu.Studio.
• His employment history includes Movinga, Compass.co, Salonmeister and DaWanda.
• He trained as an animation designer at the Animation School Hamburg and graduated in 2003.
• He completed the Product Management Bootcamp of Digitale Leute School in 2025.
• He works in German and English.

What it is not

• Dominik Heilig is one person, not a studio or an agency. Aisu.Studio is the name he publishes under.
• He is not the author of the products listed below in a team capacity; each was built and is operated by him alone, unless a collaborator is named.

Where it lives

dominikheilig.com ↗LinkedIn ↗GitHub ↗Work overview ↗

Fontane.Studio is a browser-based editor that turns handwritten glyphs into an OpenType font file.

Facts

• It runs in the browser and requires no account and no installation.
• It carries character sets including Latin, Cyrillic, Korean Hangul and the Dene diacritics of the Dehcho region.
• Finished fonts can be published through an open marketplace on the same site.
• The name combines the word font with the name of the German novelist Theodor Fontane (1819–1898). The product turns handwriting into a typeface.
• It was built and is operated by Dominik Heilig. It went online in 2026.

What it is not

• Fontane.Studio is not published by, affiliated with or endorsed by any institution associated with Theodor Fontane, including the Theodor Fontane Archive and the Fontane society.
• Fontane.Studio was named Glypher and, briefly, letter.space before July 2026. Those names refer to the same product.
• Fontane.Studio is not a font foundry and does not sell licences for its own typefaces.

Where it lives

fontane.studio ↗

CNSL is a workspace that holds tasks, notes, a calendar, a scheduler, a chat and a publisher over one set of projects.

Facts

• It stores changes as events rather than overwriting them.
• It provides data deletion and export as separate endpoints.
• It was built and is operated by Dominik Heilig. It went into public beta in 2026.

What it is not

• CNSL is not optimised for discovery. It has no search engine optimisation and no facts page of its own. This is a product decision, not an omission.
• CNSL is not a commercial product and is not sold.

Where it lives

cnsl.aisu.studio ↗

Fire on the Land is a documentary graphic novel about Scotty Creek Research Station in Canada's Northwest Territories, and the website that accompanies it.

Facts

• Scotty Creek was Canada's first Indigenous-led research station. It burnt down in a wildfire in late 2022.
• It is written and illustrated by Dominik Heilig with Prof. Oliver Sonnentag of the Université de Montréal, accompanied by Dieter Cazon of the Liidlii Kue First Nation.
• The website reads Sentinel-2 satellite data from the European Copernicus programme.

What it is not

• Fire on the Land is not a news outlet and not a scientific publication.
• The reforestation tool on the site assesses trajectories. It does not recommend one.

Where it lives

fireontheland.org ↗

AisuLab is a digital-literacy platform with programming and privacy exercises for children aged ten and over.

Also written: Lab.Aisu.Studio

Facts

• It holds exercises in two tracks, coding and hacking, across three levels.
• Accounts use a chosen name and an emoji code. No email address and no password are stored.
• It was built by Dominik Heilig with his son. It went online in May 2026.

What it is not

• AisuLab is a separate product from Aisu.Studio, which is the name Dominik Heilig publishes under.
• AisuLab is not a school and issues no certificates.

Where it lives

lab.aisu.studio ↗

waffle is a design token system and component library used across the products of Aisu.Studio.

Facts

• It defines colour, spacing, typography, radius, shadow and motion as tokens in the Design Tokens Community Group format.
• Its components are built to WCAG AA contrast.
• It is published as open source.

What it is not

• waffle is not a CSS framework and is not a component framework for general use.
• waffle is unrelated to other software projects that share the word waffle.

Where it lives

github.com/AisuStudio/waffle ↗

NORMANN is a reference tool for German public procurement of building work below the EU thresholds, written for the planning offices of Berlin and Brandenburg.

Facts

• It names the award procedures a contract value permits and cites the provision and its date.
• It stores nothing, transmits nothing and requires no account.
• It is research in progress and a public prototype.

What it is not

• NORMANN is not an official service of any public authority.
• NORMANN does not give legal advice. It reproduces a rule and names its source. It does not apply the rule to a case and does not recommend a procedure.

Where it lives

not publicly availableSource code ↗

SolarKreis is a control-room prototype for a solar park that combines a simulated plant with live external data.

Facts

• The plant, its three fields and its inverters are simulated.
• Weather, the day-ahead electricity price and satellite fire detections are read from live sources.
• The interface marks which values are simulated and which are real.

What it is not

• SolarKreis does not monitor a real solar park and is not connected to one.
• SolarKreis is a portfolio prototype, not a commercial product.

Where it lives

solarkreis.vercel.app ↗Source code ↗