Illustration by Kerstin from meloncats  

Take a breather and come back when you’re sitting down at your computer.

You are most likely on the go right now, clicking on this little blue link to view my folio site online. I am humbled that you are here. But perhaps work can wait until you are back in your office chair and able to view the site on a bigger screen? Put the phone down and take a break.

I wish you a lovely day.

Nicolai

Multidisciplinary designer and strategist with 6 years of experience in digital product design, doing UX/UI for web, SaaS, apps, Shopify and Webflow.

App for sharing campsites

Lifestyles makes great community driven services

2019 - Ongoing - Co-founder

We were a small, bootstrapped team of seven people who have developed a product that helps motor-home owners share secluded campsite locations in nature.

I was Responsible for business strategy and feature planning, design system maintenance, Webflow development, as we grew the user base from zero to a few thousands.

Expertise role

Co-founder, Product design, Product owner tasks

Deliverable

UI, UX, Buisness strategy

Platform

IOS, Android

Blockchain Gaming

Connecting games currencies

2018 - 7 months - Contract

I helped the founders of Tap to go from ICO to complete web-platform over a period of 8 months with a small team of 4 Devs, an Illustrator and me. Where we launched almost a new featured bi-weeks, to build a complete gaming platform with E-sport, Achievements, Game mechanics and currencies for the blockchain.

Expertise role

Lead product designer / art director

Deliverable

All UI, UX, Branding, Design strategy

Platform

Web app

Branding strategy

Everything from solidifying the “why” to the art direction of illustrations.

React componet design system

The design system allowed us to build several MVPs of key features at high speed.

Reponsive web app

Having components and the user experience adapt across web and mobil produces lots of challenges and opportunities

"I would very happy provide a reference for Nicolai as a recommendation for a lead designer. In his time with us, he was very professionel, motivated and a hard worker. It was a pleasure working with him on ideas and the platform. He got along very with his team members, and was always happy to help in areas he could. I think he would make a great hire for your company and fit with any team or leading any team"

Hugh Knight, Co-founder

Internal data site for UN members

Connecting games currency with share currency

2019 - 2 weeks

A United Nations member asked me to overhaul their internal page promoting data transparency of humanitarian-tagged data for 70 of their member organisations with a new modern data dashboards as part of the initiative to improve data quality by 2020. The dashboard was build by ZimmermanZimmerman

Expertise role

Product owner, UX, UI

Deliverable

UI/UX and Design system

Platform

Web app

Componet design system

Using components allowed us easily add new sections as the clients' dreams for extra value add expanded. While offering high utility with restyled component from open react libraries.