Who am i?
A father of two, a Disc golf fanatic and a social geek who finds solitude in campfires and the ambience of a forest alongside my plastic discs and great company. With a sport background i am a natural team player who possess a childlike curiosity for new things. I am a firm believer that one should never forget to celebrate even the smallest of victory, and after several years in the industry i would call myself a true advocate of our users.
ABOUT
As a person
Born and raised in the northern parts of Sweden in a City called Umeå, i was raised alongside my sister by my two parents. Growing up i played every sport imaginable, but primarily Team sports such as Fotboll and Floorball. As a captain of my floorball team it became clear to me that to succeed as a team, you need good team spirit, and great bonds between the members. This is something that shaped me to become the person and the designer i am today.
Education
- Umeå university – Digital Media Production (2007-2010)
- Hyper Island – Mobile Applications (2012-2014)
My education started at Umeå University where i studied Digital Media Production and graduated with a bachelor degree in informatics. This was a very broad angle on the industry and i wanted to dive deeper into the areas that really peaked my interest, which was the courses about User experience and Human computer Interaction. This lead me to Hyper Island and Mobile applications. Here i turned all my theoretical knowledge into practical skills, which moved me another step towards becoming the User experience designer i want to be.
Work
- The Mobile Life (2014-2015)
- Pingdom/Solarwinds (2015-current)
After a few monthts of Intership, i was offered a position at The Mobile Life as a User experience designer/project coordinator. The role was twofold because of the scale of the company, and the fact that we often collaborated with Advertising agencies that had their own UX designers. 2015 i started working at Pingdom, developing new features as well as improving old ones for one of the worlds leading Web monitoring services out there with over 800k active users. The challenge of creating something easy to use in the complex world of website monitoring and Digital experience monitoring has kept me on my toes ever since.
Visual design vs UX design
I do visual design every day. I am comfortable doing it, but i do not consider it one of my top strengths. I am more comfortable working with wireframes and solving the real issues of the users, than making the solution a stunning visual. I will gladly let someone else polish a design to pixel perfection as long as i can be a part of the solution we are creating.
personal
strengths
Below is a list of strengths that i, after years of experience have developed
Christer is very good to quickly understand a problem and switch his focus if necessary without too much hassle. He is great to work with and I have full confidence in the recommendations he gives. He is able to describe and propose user flows that are sensible and intuitive and can take technical and other limitations/constraints into consideration when proposing user flows and creating designs.
Christer has great energy and a positive attitude. He is a very considerate person and is easy to work with. I am happy to have him on the team. He is
collaborative and always willing to help.
One of his biggest contributions to the team is his ability to interact and empathise with other people, look beyond his own opinions and preferences and fight for the end user, which I believe is a key skill as a UX designer. Christer also has great analytical and problem-solving skills and he is a key component for us to be able to successfully deliver solutions in more complex projects.