Experienced UX & Product Designer Copenhagen

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(Updated 2023-06-27)

Experienced UX & Product Designer

Copenhagen

Native English, Fluent Danish

  • Expert in translating strategy into UX and prototypes
  • Award winning UX designer
  • 15+ years working in product design and development
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Skills (9)

Design Systems

USER EXPERIENCE

STRONG COMMUNICATION SKILLS

Presentation design

Concept sketching and visualisation

PROTOTYPING

PRODUCT DESIGN

User Research and Testing

AI Design Tooling

Summary

Experienced Product Design Director (ex-momondo, KAYAK, Channel 4) with a proven track record at startups, hyper-growth and established companies.

🏆 Building and leading award winning design teams
🌱 Establishing the environment and design systems to help teams grow
🔍 Delivering meaningful quantitative research to identify the right problems to solve
💡 Journey mapping, problem solving and user experience design
🔥 Setting design direction for a product and an organisation
🚀 Product vision prototyping to make strategy tangible
🤙 Strong communication skills, investor relations and collaboration mindset

Professional Experience

Product Design Director
CREY

2021-03 - Present

Leading the product design of an exciting new platform for creating and playing user generated games. Working at the director level - alongside product and technology - to define strategy, inspire an organisation, empathise with users, secure funding and make a genuinely unique product.
Director of Product Design
Awaze

2020-08 - 2021-03

Design Director at Europe’s largest rentals and holiday resorts business leading a team to improve the user experience and design across several brands including Hoseasons, cottages.com and Novasol.

UX Director
KAYAK

2019-11 - 2020-08

Guiding a team of six designers, UX writers and content strategists in Copenhagen, Boston and Berlin. Working with senior leadership on product strategy helping maintain KAYAK as a world leader in travel search.

UX Director
momondo

2017-10 - 2019-11

Established the UX team and led them to create award winning design, picking up the Google Material Design Award for Innovation. In some way contributing to the sale of momondo for $550 million to Booking.com (KAYAK).

Lead User Experience Architect
momondo

2015-08 - 2017-10

User Experience Designer
Channel 4

2013-08 - 2015-08

User Experience Architect
DF London

2010-10 - 2013-08

Designer
Display

2008-08 - 2010-10

Designer
H&A

2006-05 - 2008-07

Academic Background

BA (Honours)
Edinburgh College of Art

2002-01 - 2006-01

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