Why UX? Podcast

Hans is really one of the old school UX'ers and back in the days, he was a Usability Tester. As the industry has grown he has grown with it. Today he sees himself as a toolmaker and as head of Product Design at Milestone System he's the frontrunner of making his teams understand their users in order to build the right product. He has high standards which shine through in his dedication to empoweri...

Jimmy is not by far the classical UX designer, he's a full on anthropologist working in the design space, or more so the product space. He found his way into design through an article that described how the company Red Associates used the social sciences to solve complex problems for some of the largest companies in the world. He spend a couple of years at Designit, but the constant focus on speed...

Catherine grew up with a pencil in her hand. The born visual designer. She studied Industrial Design in Paris and at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts through Erasmus. She then came back to Copenhagen to learn Glass design and blowing techniques. Through a student job at a strategy consulting company, her eyes opened to User Research and as a graduate, the transition into, what we today call U...

Rasmus Landgreen started his journey 16 years ago placing his first pixels online, doing e-commerce solutions for small businesses. After a couple of years of scrambling, he entered the Danish Design Schools interaction design programme where he stayed on for 3 years. Learning a bit about digital design, but mostly learning that graphic design and digital design are two different worlds. Through r...

Kim Johannesen is the co-founder and managing director at a small frontend-consultancy called Shift. They have three core areas they focus on: scalability, performance and accessibility. Kim calls himself a failed designer as he always wanted to be one, but didn't have the skills so instead, he turned to frontend development. Kim started his career in 2000 when he got a job in England as a front-e...

Jens Poder started working at Radio Denmark int 1996 when he was 24 as an intern. He was doing all sorts of jobs from making posters to editing websites. Jens used to study literature and art and wanted to work with cultural journalism but then web took off and in few years he ended up sitting in editorial staff for DR.dk, helping to put the dr.dk on the first content management system, and transf...

Lena Egede started her journey wanting to be a journalist, failing to be accepted to the School of Journalism, living out her dreams at university while working as a journalist, realizing that journalism was not her and changing her life to pursue being a UX researcher. As she says, the underlying dream for both professions is still the same - make the complicated seem simple. Lena calls herself "...

Casper Klenz-Kitenge is a co-founder and creative director of Pilot , a digital product studio. He spends his days on client work and on small personal projects that have a big impact. He calls himself a 90 % self-taught designer which never has been an obstacle in his career. He defines himself as being a generalist designer.   One of the inside product of Pilot is called Wallo where now they try...

Helle Martens  is what we would call the first generation UX Designer. With a degree in Mechanical Engineering she landed her first job in a tech company which led into UX design. Today she is a freelance designer with a passion for usability testing and wireframing. She runs the Copenhagen based community UX Forum CPH and 2 yearly conferences. One on Behavioral Psychology and one on UX Design . Y...

Aske Sørensen is Lead Designer at the startups Practio and sikkervaccination.dk.   He has a background in Graphic Design but moved into UX design by reading about it on Medium. Being a part of an all-male team with a product for women (a birth control app) Aske have done a lot of user testing, empathizing with his user and today his female friends come to him for advice regarding birth control. He...

Martin Sandholt is a Frontend Designer at Momondo , with a father who tried to teach him C++ as a child, a strong graphical eye, he graduated as a Multimedia Designer. He have startup experience but is now in product design. You might know him in the local UX community where he with my co-host Dovile runs the UX/UI Design Meetup . He sees himself as a generalist, going through the full journey of...