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Designer
Location
Copenhagen, Denmark
Toptal Member Since
April 23, 2018
Along with a master’s degree in IT from the Copenhagen Business School, Niklas has several years of hands-on experience in UI and UX. He specializes in mobile apps, high-quality visual design, and scalable design systems. His past clients include NATO's Anders Fogh Rasmussen through his own agency to the leading sports-tracking company, TrackMan.
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Senior Product Designer
2019 - PRESENT
TrackMan
- Designed golf-tracking software for both professional golfers and pro-golf clients, including the design of both the native iOS apps and Windows apps.
- Built, maintained, and developed multiple design systems and UI kits.
- Managed stakeholder involvement and management during all phases of projects.
- Collaborated closely with developers throughout product development.
- Served as the lead designer on consumer and pro golf applications in a team of three designers.
- Created user stories and facilitated backlog groomings with POs and engineers.
- Drove the process of migrating design systems and UI kits as well as production processes to Figma from Sketch.
- Conducted design reviews and feedback sessions with fellow product designers.
- Was appointed interim head of UI/UX and subsequently design lead, participating in team and product strategies.
Technologies: ProtoPie, Teams, Microsoft, Slack, Trello, Azure DevOps, Flinto, Marvel, Lottie, Adobe After Effects, Zeplin, InVision, Sketch, Figma
UX/UI Designer — Trading Platforms
2019 - 2019
Saxo Bank
- Designed a trading platform built in React for non-professional investors, including a web platform and iOS and Android apps.
- Contributed to concept development, translating business objectives to tangible concepts.
- Designed and tested interactive prototypes in both Figma and ProtoPie.
- Spearheaded the development of design system management in Figma, including creating components based on existing React components and vice versa.
- Managed stakeholder involvement during all phases of projects.
- Collaborated with developers, including hand-off, testing, and QA.
Technologies: Trello, Slack, Azure DevOps, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, InVision, Figma, Sketch
UX/UI Designer
2016 - 2019
Bright
- Identified and translated client problems, goals, and objectives into technical specifications and ready-to-implement solutions and project plans.
- Facilitated strategy workshops for identifying business problems and ensured stakeholder alignment.
- Planned and executed live UX workshops in order to identify and establish user flows, information architecture, and technical requirements as well as developed prototypes in co-creational and sprint-like processes with clients.
- Worked on UX, UI design, and interaction design.
- Communicated solutions using rapid interactive prototyping.
- Collaborated with external front-end and back-end developers.
- Developed the front end.
- Managed projects with agile processes.
Technologies: Trello, Slack, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, InVision, Figma, Sketch
UX/UI Designer
2014 - 2016
Iconic CPH
- Designed both the UX and UI on several projects.
- Communicated solutions through both low- and high-fidelity prototyping.
- Converted designs to functional code through front-end development.
- Managed and facilitated workshops as well as project management to oversee production processes.
- Helped clients define business problems, goals, and objectives.
Technologies: Trello, Slack, Git, Bootstrap, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, InVision, Sketch
Web Designer
2012 - 2014
Quitzau & Co
- Created UX/UI designs.
- Built prototypes.
- Developed the front end.
- Configured and customized WordPress and other CMS systems.
- Improved clients' existing websites and web apps in terms of UX, UI, performance, and additional features.
Technologies: Git, Bootstrap, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, InVision, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite
Education
2014 - 2017
Master of Science (MSc) Degree in Business Administration and Information Systems (E-business)
Copenhagen Business School - Copenhagen, Denmark
2012 - 2014
Bachelor's Degree in Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Copenhagen Business Academy - Lyngby, Denmark
2010 - 2012
Academic Profession (AP) Degree in Multimedia Design
Copenhagen School of Design and Technology - Copenhagen, Denmark
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