Multidisciplinary designer, educator, and design leader with an engineering background.

Currently working at Google in California, originally from the Danish countryside.

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2022—Current


Google Labs
Design Leadership

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2022—Current
Innovation Fund Denmark
Design Mentor/Advisor

Advising startups through the Innofounder incubator.


2019—2022
Google
Google Assistant
Creative Director & Head of Visual Design

Grew and led a global team of 20+ visual product designers. Responsible for creative direction for all Assistant surfaces, founded a platform-agnostic design language for ambient intelligence and conversational interfaces.
2018—2019
Pinterest
Applied Creative Technology (ACT)
Manager/Founder

Founded and managed a team of designers and creative technologists who worked across product design, brand, and engineering to inspire and explore new ideas through rapid prototyping and build-led experimentation.

2016—2018
IDEO
Senior Design Director & Senior Manager

Design Director for Interaction Design, Communication Design and Creative Technology in the Palo Alto studio.

Led large and small client engagements, worked on everything from airplane food to humanizing AI.
2014—2016
Wove/Polyera
Principal Designer

Part of the core team who designed and built the Wove device, one the world’s first consumer devices with a flexible display. Worked on everything from brand, product design, a custom operating system, and the software ecosystem supporting it.
2010—2014
IDEO
Design Lead

Grew from Senior Designer to Lead, worked on projects across many industries and design disciplines. Most of them highly confidential. 
2006–2008
Nokia
Hardware Prototyper/UX Engineer

Built hardware UX prototypes/demo units at the Nokia Copenhagen design studio.
2002—2010
Freelance
Full stack web design and development

Built and maintained three generations of a fully-fledged custom CMS system while studying engineering and design. Contracted as a design consultant.