Product design lead | Service design| PM Skåne län, Sverige

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(Updated 2022-12-09)

Product design lead | Service design| PM

Skåne län, Sverige

Native Svenska, English, Intermediate Danish, Spanish

  • + 5 år Product / project management
  • + 15 år Product UX design & strategy
  • + 10 år Service design / user research

Skills (19)

UX design

UX

PRODUCT DESIGN

INTERACTION DESIGN

Design Thinking

USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN

service design

product strategy

Agile

Product Owner

User research

Workshop facilitation

GROWTH DRIVEN DESIGN

value propositions

VISUAL DESIGN

PROTOTYPING

Product Management

SAAS

DATA ANALYTICS

Summary

My main expertise is product UX design, strategy and innovation. I have + 15 years of
experience within the field of UX and product design ranging from initial research, analysis and strategy to conceptualization, design, prototyping, test and validation all the way to implementation and releasing successfully. 

I'm used to leading teams and I enjoy empowering others and linking people together around a common goal and make sure that the team works with passion and execution. 
I'm curious, I love variety and I'm good at connecting the dots. I'm also a continuous learner and is passionate about;
• understanding and identifying 
• Inspiring others and sharing knowledge 
• Visualizing and communicating problems and solutions
• Making creative and bold hypothesis about the future (and working from there).
• Sharing stories that motivate people to listen and act
• Getting out of my comfort zone
• Innovative, delightful, engaging, meaningful products and services that bring value both to customers and business. 

Professional Experience

COMPETENCE LEAD EXPERIENCE DESIGN,
1337

2022-08 - Present

Responsible for the competence development within design at 1337. I aslo participate in sales meetings and put together proposals / offerings and work with client assignments.

Product & design strategist
Encare

2022-05 - 2022-10

Evaluating their product EIAS 5 and suggesting a path forward to improve the product from a customer experience and usability perspective. delivering a report and defined a couple of high level core concepts for redesign of the product EIAS 5. EIAS 5 is a compliance software used by hospitals to monitor and improve their compliance in relation to operations/ surgery. 

UX/CX LEAD & PROJECT MANAGER
NEXER MAVERICK

2018-08 - 2022-06

During my time at Nexer Maverick I have taken on several different and varying assignments and projects. I usually take on a strategic leading role in project and quite often also the project manager role.

I'm was responsible for leading the internal competence development group across all disciplines and also represents the CX/UX and service design area within this group. I also participate in developing our methods and offerings, participate in recruiting of new employees, sales meetings and take responsibility for putting together project proposals and offerings to new clients.
 

PM & design lead
NPOF

2022-02 - 2022-06

Design and development of new website for NPOF. Leading a team of 4 (dev + design). (site is not released yet)
 

Project lead and design lead
Rusta

2022-01 - 2022-03

Rusta - E-commerce Planning and facilitating a design sprint and leading the succeeding design work to generate detailed design direction for development.
Project manager & strategist
NPOF

2021-10 - 2021-11

NPOF (Nämnden för prövning av oredlighet i forskning)
Prestudy for new website. Understanding and documenting the organisations requirements for the new website. Defining a brief concept for the new website. 
Impact mapping, Workshops to identify and understand current problems and challenges and setting goals for the future. Documenting all functional, business and technical requirements 

Strategist / researcher
HubPark

2021-09 - 2021-12

Research and conceptualization project related to adding digital services to a Mobility house project. conducted problem framing and goals setting workshops, mapped target customers, did competitor analysis, trends analysis and workshops to come up with relevant service packages that could scale depending on site. 

Strategic design lead - Web
MPF

2021-09 - 2021-10

Myndigheten för psykologiskt försvar Strategic lead in terms of research, strategy and design for a new light website for a new Swedish government to be launched in jan 2022.

Project manager | strategist & design lead
Codan forsikring

2020-04 - 2021-12

Leading a team of consisting of web analytics/SEO specialist, content & communication strategist, researcher and UX/UI designer and visual designer. 

April 2020 - Dec 2021 - Our assignment was to come up with a brand new customer experience for their entire web that would increase conversion of new customers online and increase retention of existing customers and all together provide a best in class customer experience. We have done research, defned strategies for communication, conversion and retention, defned new design directions for their web, developed experience and interactive concepts, prototypes and provided detailed design (site is not launched yet).

Feb - april 2021 - Blog strategy and concept design for Codan

 

PM / Strategist
Codan forskning

2021-03 - 2021-06

March - June 2021 - Researching and developing new value propositions for selected customer segments for Codan forsikring. 

Project lead & researcher
Codan forsikring

2020-10 - 2020-12

Planning and facilitating a series of 10 workshop in relation Codans work with defning a new partner strategy.

Project lead / UX lead.
HSB Bospar

2019-09 - 2019-11

Leading a team of 3. New communication concept, UX concept for HSB bospar. We did customer journey mapping, proposed new site structure, new page designs, and navigation structure for HSB Bospar, new content design + communication strategy with the purpose of increasing the conversion and reduce customer complaints. 

Researcher
HSB Riks

2019-11 - 2019-12

Quantitative customer research, creating surveys and polls on HSB.se, analyzing the data and writing a report with findings and recommendations on actions and further studies. 

Advisor
Swapster (start up)

2019-01 - 2019-01

Start up aiming to offer a Service (app) for C2C reselling of used goods. The aim was to have a sustainability profile, promoting circular economy, offering users / members to swap things (apparels and interior decoration) with other users. There was also a wish for this service to become some kind of community enabling users to meet new likeminded people through the swaps.
I helped framing the scope and advised on how to formulate a strategy - value proposition, business model, strategy for monetization, defining an MVP etc. 

UX lead
HSB Riks

2019-03 - 2019-12

UX lead and UX design for new development of Mitt HSB - portal for members and board members of the BRF's. 

Service design & UX
Nelly.com

2018-09 - 2018-12

Nelly needed a new return strategy, they needed to reduce returns, reduce or prevent unwanted returns, I did customer journey mapping, proposed actions to reduce returns, prevent returns and to manage returns. UX concept: New return strategy and new customer experience concept where I did customer journey mapping & UX design concept.

project manager / advisor for web solution
SVAR LifeScience

2018-09 - 2018-10

Advising the customer on priorities for the web development, design etc. 

PRODUCT MANAGER
NATIONALENCYKLOPEDIN

2017-05 - 2018-08

NE is one of Swedens leading producers of digital teaching/learning aids and learning resources. At NE my responsibility was to defne product strategy and design direction, come up with concepts for the future which both generated business value, met users needs and innovated the product so that it would stand out in the competition, convert users easier, engage them and improve retention.
My work also included much typical product design lead work.
Projects: Evaluate a product the company sought to acquire (Formida), looking at the market ft and competition, product feature set, UX design quality and potential developments of the product going forward.
Defne what changes should be made to the teaching aid platform and the customer / user experience in order to increase conversion of existing customers from 'basic' accounts to full (premium) accounts.
Product strategy: defning and prioritizing product changes /improvements and new concepts for the future.
Mapping out the customer journeys to identify pain points to overcome and opportunities for the future.
Investigation of how NE should shape and develop teaching aids in progressive subjects (language & mathematics), evaluated different strategies and proposing short term improvements and long term vision. Competitor analysis / benchmarking, looking at potential acquisition options or collaboration partners and defning what kind of user experience and features a future solution should have and sketching out concepts.
UX LEAD
QLIK

2011-01 - 2017-06

At Qlik I was part of the Product design group where I had UX responsibility for different product areas and led different design projects through research, analysis, ideation, design and implementation for new product concepts related to Qlik Sense (not Qlik view). I also participated in User research and persona creation for Qlik Sense.
UX lead for cloud portal (Qlik Sense) - The cloud solution was for small /medium businesses where the customers should not be acquired by direkt sales but sign up online for a SaaS solution. I mapped out the customer journey, proposed concepts and strategies for onboarding new users and how to make them hooked. I also proposed a roadmap/ prioritization for new features connected to the stages in the customer journey.
UX lead for data storytelling and reporting (Qlik Sense) - UX lead for data analytics set up and editing / creation of dashboards in (Qlik Sense) For my product areas I created long term product visions and roadmaps for the design mapped to business goals and prioritized the short term backlog. I typically did user/ customer journey mappings, did research and discovery, analyzing and mapping out the problem space, conceptual design, future scenario defnition, defned user fows, created wireframes, and participated in usability studies. I worked in close relationship with product managers, architects, developers, user researchers, visual designers, subject matter experts and other designers throughout the process.
I was also part of defning our ways of working, defning processes, methods, tools to use etc. and also helped out with recruitment of new designers.
Agile processes - At Qlik development is truly Agile, which means I also participated in mile stone plannings, user story writing, scrum meetings, daily stand ups etc. with the development teams.

UX ARCHITECT /LEAD
FOSS ANALYTICAL A/S

2005-01 - 2011-06

FOSS is a world leading provider of advanced analytical instruments for the food, agricultural, chemical and pharmaceutical industries. At FOSS i participated in the conceptualization and development of new products and was in relation to that responsible for the UX/Interaction design and usability work.
I introduced new ways of working and managed to turn around the process from traditional requirements documentation to design driven documentation.
I initiated and led a project aimed at get consistency in design across all products and platforms.
Created a UI framework (design framework) to be used for all products of varying screens sizes and applications, what would today be similar to a design system.
Generally I was involved in projects from requirements gathering and conceptualization all the way to fnished product. My work typically included doing user research and profling, conceptual design, UX concept design and detailed design, graphical design and carrying out usability tests.
FREELANCE & PRIVATE FIRM
DESIGNOTEKET

2001-01 - 2004-01

Sporadic freelance assignments, graphic design, web design, aslo had my own frm where I did textile design and produced home textiles.
SALARY ADMINISTRATOR
TH HANSEN CONSULTING

2002-01 - 2003-01

I was responsible for the salary and employee administration for the sales offces in Sweden and Finland. The company employed 150 people with weekly provision based salaries. The work required effectiveness, speed, thoroughness and the ability to work independently and solve problems

Academic Background

MASTER UX DESIGN
MALMOE UNIVERSITY

1999-08 - 2001-06

Bachelor degree (fil.kand.) systemvetenskap
UNIVERSITY OF LUND

1995-08 - 1999-01

ENGLISH LANGUAGE STUDIES
SOUTH THAMES COLLEGE

2022-12 - 1994-07

SPANSIH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID

2022-12 - 1993-06

SPANISH LANGUAGE
NUVEA UNIVERSIDAD DE GRANADA

2022-12 - 1992-04

Certifications

DESIGNING A STRAGEY (IDEOU)

2022-12

EMPOWERED PRODUCT TEAMS (SVPG)

2022-10

CAMBRIDGE CERTIFICATE OF PROFICIENCY IN ENGLISH

1994-06

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