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Universal Robots is the global front runner in the market of collaborative robots(cobots). In my role as Lead Product Designer within the Robotics & Integration value stream, I collaborated as a member of the leadership team, working alongside a Tech Lead and a Lead Project Manager.• Cultivated synergy between product teams and senior management stakeholders, fostering a transparent and effective pathway for progress.• Headed the industrial design process for the next-generation Control Box and Teach Pendant.• Orchestrated and guided design activities across diverse product teams.• Led user research initiatives, conducting interviews and focus groups, and communicated valuable insights to relevant stakeholders.• Advocating and implementing principles of Design Thinking across the organization.

Jabra is a global top-player in the headset & communication industry, creating innovative communication products for both B2B and B2C. I my self had the pleasure of taking on different roles and more responsibilities as I evolved as a designer and a person.UX Design Lead on multiple productsLeading the UX design from early concept to in-market-product.• Advocating User-Centric Solutions: Leading the way in user research for optimal foundation for the product development.• Strategic Stakeholder Collaboration: Unveiling the "Why" in product development through effective communication to senior stakeholders.• Uncovering Design Paths: Harvesting valuable user insights for informed decision-making.• Comprehensive Design Framework: Clarified and outlined design prerequisites for physical products, ensuring a thorough and transparent design vision through design briefs, requirements and specifications.• Innovation at Speed: Accelerating progress with physical rapid prototypes.• Innovative Product Enhancement: Uncovering fresh avenues for refining our products through incremental inventions and innovative concepts.• Design Thinking Revolution: Advocating and embedding a design-centric culture across the organization.Founding and Leading the Comfort Experience of Jabra headsets.• Leading the comfort domain: Prioritizing the research and design activities within the field of UX Comfort design.• Pioneering a new design field: Collecting knowledge and data in a field field unknown to the organization and most of the world.• Data analysis: Analyzing data to uncover tendencies and extremes in the relevant anthropometric dimensions, to implement these in the comfort design.• Anthropometric design: Spreading and implementing terminology and understanding of anthropometry with in the organization.• Data foundation: Systematic structuring of data and processes to ensure a solid foundation for extracting insights and guidelines to be used widely in the organization.

I functioned as a counselor for students who needed help regarding, explanation of the DTU rules, planing their education and more private matters.

First Step Consulting was started to help companies implement UX in their product development process. In detail First Step Consulting offered to construct 3d prototypes, facilitate usertests and guidance on how to implement UX in the given product.

Primary results:- Redesign of the system architecture in FashionFinder app.- Optimizing the userflow in FashionFinder app.- Implementing principles of Design Interaction to the FashionFinder app.Through systematic analysis of the userflow and the UX interface, I constructed a new system architecture for the app. The new system architecture was designed to point directly at the core-value of the app, which made the final architecture simpler easier to navigate.

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