What changes when your scope doubles
Moving from a product domain to a platform role sounds like a straightforward expansion. More surface area, similar job. That’s roughly how I thought about…
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A day in someone else’s calendar
SEB has official shadowing days. The idea is simple: spend time with someone outside your usual circle, see what their day looks like, have conversations…
Notes from Service Design Day 2026
This is my third Service Design Day in a row. I keep coming back because of the quality of the content. It’s one of those…
Notes from the Design Systems event in Tartu
Last Wednesday I went to a design event in Tartu about design systems. Below are some of my notes from the event. Thanks, Mobi Lab…
Researchers meet up at SEB
We hosted a small researchers meet up at work last week, and it turned out to be a perfect blend of catching up with friends,…
Improving communications by using card sorting
Every organization struggles how information flows within their community every now and then, it’s not something new. We had a similar situation in my department…
Landscape architect in the UX world?
Whenever people hear that my bachelor’s education is in landscape architecture but I focus on user experience (UX) research and design they get a little…
War story: “This is going to be a fun ride”
I was reading Steve Portigal’s Doorbells, Danger, and Dead Batteries book and got encouraged to share a story. If you don’t know the book; it’s…
Speculative fiction: What founding “Lively” has taught me
This is a speculative fiction story that I wrote in 2019 for my Social Media and Society class. The story is in the form of…
Optimism through design: Utøya
I was listening to NPR’s Fresh Air this Monday and the episode that I was listening to ended with a review of a movie called “22 July”….