This episode’s guest is Trine Falbe - a user experience researcher, consultant, lecturer, author and speaker, focused on empowering people through ethical design. She believes that building honest and transparent experiences is not only the right thing to do: it’s also good for business. With a focus on designing for, and with children Trine shares with us her practice and advice on how to avoid dark patterns and stay an ethical designer. You can read more about ethical design on her book...

Ni Hao! At APIA program in Shenzhen, China we met many inspiring people one of whom we are lucky to have as this episode’s guest. He had always had a need to build things that solve real problems, but he never imagined it would lead him to move to the Philippines, then Silicon Valley and ultimately New York to do that. When passion leads the way, you have to follow and Elijah Murray, the engineer, designer, and co-founder of Matter Studio, stays true to this promise every day. Elijah thinks...

This time we visited Stine Skaarup - Senior User Experience designer @ Designit. When she was studying, user experience design wasn’t really a thing and with the big dream of changing public IT in Denmark, she thought she would go out of school and rock the world with her skills. It turns out it wasn’t as easy as she thought, but in the interesting path of her career she learned so many lessons that she shares with us today, as a way to give back to the design community. Follow Stine and...

We attended UX Camp Copenhagen this month where we met one of the keynote speakers, Aral Balkan. Aral is a designer, coder, and human rights activist, who has spoken at over 75 events in different countries. His keynotes are inspirational talks where he introduces ethical design, criticizes surveillance capitalism and explores topics with great significance. In this episode you will hear about his journey from becoming aware of his privileges and inequality in the world while growing up in...

In this extraordinary episode the UX keynote speakers from Bulgaria Web Summit 2018 conference were invited in our remote studio with the hygge design team. You will have a blast listening to this episode, where Dave Hogue, UX Lead at Google in San Francisco 🇺🇲️ and Florence Okoye, UX designer of the natural history museum in London🇬🇧️ discuss their careers and experiences with complex systems. If you want to connect with the guests find them on Twitter at @DaveHogue and @FINOkoye. You can...

Nordic roots and designer heart Get to know Mark Bower - interaction designer @ Google in San Francisco. The different challenges he has encountered on the way to Google, and his life hacks will not only get you through your bike trip to school, but also help you understand how to make the leap from student to professional designer. The interview with Mark was an overseas phone call and it was hard to keep the high quality of recording. We apologize in advance and we’re working on improving...

Senior User Experience Consultant Helle Jensen, also known as “Hell” from colleagues, talks all things design and business. Get valuable career tips and tricks on how to start off in the creative business world. Music: Tiny tempo - Safakash