Denmark

Lars Damgaard

Head of Design & UX

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

Methods and models of exploring, deciding and delivering design.

Building a design process

Managing being the only designer at your company and working with non-designers.

Being the only designer

Explore different generative and evaluative research techniques. User research synthesis and presentation.

Conducting good user research

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

I help companies make ideas tangible through design, product strategy, insights, process facilitation and design leadership. Feel free to reach out if you want to collaborate.

I built the UX design from the ground up for a digital platform for neurologists, nurses and their patients in the world of headaches and migraine — focusing on a good workflow for the health care professionals while at the same time allowing patients to understand and contextualize their condition and patterns through a mobile app experience.

Significant contributions:

- Concept development
- Product discovery 
- UX research → patient and HCP insights 
- Design systems (using Radix UI)
- Qualitative interviews w. migraine sufferers
- UX & UI design for both platforms
- Marketing design and Webflow

Leading the design and UX team in the motion capture scaleup Rokoko. The team was responsible for the product design of Rokoko's 3D motion capture software as well as all design related to commercial touch points — as well as product design within our healthcare vertical focused on physiotherapy rehabilitation.   Besides managing the team, my role involved defining strategy and goals for the team and on a day to day basis crafting high level design and concepts, giving design feedback and define product experiments.

Significant contributions:

- Team OKRs
- Product discovery
- Establishing a user panel 
- Crafting of design on all fidelity levels 
- Design systems
- Coaching and reviewing
- Being a hiring manager
- Leading a brand re-design

Leading and contributing to the UX and product design activities in the team. Grandhood is a fintech startup — we built a digital pension selfservice solution for the SMB segment and their employees. The digital product experience consists of two major touchpoints: a company onboarding and subsequent dashboard for the admin — and a mobile app experience for the employee. We won the Danish Digital Award in 2020 for the most innovative product.

Brought on to the team as the first designer and was responsible for a lot of the foundational UX & UI work in the product experience.

Significant contributions:

- Creating the UX and product design artefacts 
- Interim product management
- Designing the MVP for B2B and B2C
- User testing
- Lean UX experiments
- Business case validation 
- Pre-launch product market fit experiments 
- Designing flows
- Designing UI

Hello Great Works is now called NoA Ignite.

I worked as a UX design lead on large scale projects, leading digital product development sprints for clients in the finance, energy and travelling industry while also having line management for a group of designers.

Digital product development and user experience design at the Danish News Media Politiken. Main focus on continuous, strategic improvement of the Politiken user experience. Besides that I've played a major role in designing Politiken's first longread section Magasinet, Politiken's iBYEN section and a recent strategic re-design of Politiken's loyalty programme Politiken Plus and the 2016 re-design.

Sorthvid is now called Dept.

Sorthvid is a small, but clever agency that focuses on complex information architecture and good user experience design. While working here I had the pleasure of creating digital user experience design for large-scale public and private clients such as the Danish Arts Council, the Danish School of Media and Journalism, the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, Politiken to name a few.

Editor of the monthly sociology column in the Danish Sociological Association

Research for documentary film productions in Cosmo Doc, a prominent documentary production company. I was involved with background research for a number of productions and also helped creating pitch decks for fund raising.

Student worker on a bookproject by Rasmus Willig (ed.) on the german philosopher Axel Honneth.

Teaching ethnographical, anthropological and sociological research methodology. Focus on teaching students how to create the right kind of research design for their projects and how to use their research in their work.

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