Hi, I like to design and code user interfaces. That's “and” as in the middle piece of a Venn diagram. Too much code and no design and I lose motivation. Too much design and no code and I get impatient.
As a designer, I try to tackle problems through systems. I’ll look for underlying concepts or patterns of rules that can get me 80% of the way from the start, rather than treat everything as a mystery box of unrelated edge cases to handle one at a time. You could say that I prefer “simple” over “easy”.
I’ve often been lucky to work on projects that felt meaningful and, while not always the most glamorous or cutting-edge, made some positive difference in the world. That’s a little intimidating in a context like this, where the expectation is a sentence or two and a few visually immediate, polished product shots.
And actually, I really enjoy working on that surface-level polish. I feel like that’s a strength of being a designer/developer – working through the details of all the little states, transitions, and micro-interactions, directly in a dynamic medium. You can’t do that in a drawing.
Projects
Elsa helps people with RA (rheumatoid arthritis) understand their condition and influence their care, so they can feel better. You can track symptoms, medications, and other health parameters relevant to RA, discover trends and progress over time, and equip yourself with the knowledge most helpful to your situation. By connecting to a clinic you can let your rheumatologist follow how you're doing. The app is beloved by its users, rated 4.8/5 on the Swedish App Store.
While at Ocean, I worked on some of the first concepts for what would eventually become Elsa. I've since contributed to user research, design, usability testing, production code for React Native, QA testing, promotional materials, and much more.
I drew the logotype and built the website. In collaboration with Ocean colleagues, I art directed the scientific illustrations and diagrams.
An early diagnosis can reduce the health effects of a rheumatic condition. With rheumatologists from the medical universities of Karolinska Institute, Leiden, Erlangen, and Birmingham, we made a tool to find people in the early stages of rheumatic disease, or at risk of developing it.
I worked on user experience and interaction design. I also built the whole first version for the web, including the algorithm and implementation of the risk calculation itself (later refined and evaluated through several research papers). We collaborated with world-leading medical experts to fine-tune the parameters of this calculation, based on user input.
Letting troubled young people seek help on their own terms, and build courage for a first mental health counseling meeting. Made at Ocean, in collaboration with Första Linjen, Experio Lab, and local kids and teenagers. The project was nominated for Design S – Swedish Design Awards, and won the Psynk award, Vitalis award, as well as Dagens Medicin's Guldskalpellen.
I helped Hans Rosling’s Gapminder with information architecture and UX for the initial launch of their ambitious photojournalism project Dollar Street. Scenes and objects from homes all around the world have been captured in over 30 000 photos and videos, bringing to life how income differences affect people’s everyday life.
I designed improved search and navigation, to make it easier to browse the huge catalog of images. Together with colleagues from Ocean I interviewed users, made an onboarding, revised the graphic design, and improved the usability of the photographers’ admin interface.
Bill Gates was “obsessed” with Dollar Street, and called the user interface simple and intuitive to use (actually, he said the “user interference” was simple and intuitive to use, so it might have been intended as a backhanded compliment).
Side Projects
Recently I've been posting experiments in procedural motion, using web technologies like canvas, SVG and Svelte, over at posts.cv.
Open-source re-implementation of `console.log()` in Svelte. Custom syntax highlighting, excellent keyboard support including navigating by fuzzy search, and live updating display of changing values.
Work Experience
My work has spanned all areas of design and development across multiple products, from early concept work, UX research, design, prototyping in code, and shipping production code for web, iOS and Android.
My role included interaction design, UX, client workshops, front-end code and more in a range of projects at this pioneering Swedish service design agency.
Clients and project partners I worked with included Gapminder, Karolinska Institute, Shire, Sanofi, Thermo Fisher, Aisin, Kry, Axfoundation, 1177 Vårdguiden (Sweden’s healthcare guide service), Elsa, Coupa, Mödrahälsovårdsenheten Stockholm (maternal care unit), and Ung Cancer (Swedish young cancer association).
Design and code for digital learning platforms.
Interaction design and front-end web development projects.
Gear reviews, interviews, music production tutorials and more for Sweden’s largest musicians’ magazine.
Songwriting, production, recording, remixing, performing, and more. Björk once put a track I made on a record.