Expertise
Experience
CREY
Product Design Director
Mar 2021 - Present
Leading the product design of an exciting new platform for creating and playing user generated games. Working at the director level - alongside product and technology - to define strategy, inspire an organisation, empathise with users, secure funding and make a genuinely unique product.
Awaze
Director of Product Design
Aug 2020 - Mar 2021
Design Director at Europe’s largest rentals and holiday resorts business helping lead a team to improve the user experience and design across several brands including Hoseasons, cottages.com and Novasol.
KAYAK
UX Director
Nov 2019 - May 2020
Guiding a team of six designers, UX writers and content strategists in Copenhagen, Boston and Berlin. Working with senior leadership on product strategy helping maintain KAYAK as a world leader in travel search.
momondo
UX Director
Oct 2017 - Nov 2019
Established the UX team and led them to create award winning design, picking up the Google Material Design Award for Innovation. In some way contributing to the sale of momondo for $550 million to Booking.com (KAYAK).
momondo
Lead User Experience Architect
Aug 2015 - Oct 2017
Channel 4
User Experience Designer
Aug 2013 - Aug 2015
DF London - User Experience Architect
Oct 2010 - Aug 2013
Display - Designer
Aug 2008 - Oct 2010
H&A - Designer
May 2006 - Jul 2008
Education
Edinburgh College of Art
BA (Hons) Visual Communication
2002 - 2006
Danish Language
Working Proficiency (B2 CEFR)
Awards
Google Material Design Award for Innovation
momondo - Sep 2017
Fun Stuff
I love a good project to keep my mind fresh and learning new things, here is a selection of my latest and greatest.
I’m building a summerhouse
I’m building a summerhouse in a Swedish forest from the ground up, follow the journey here https://www.instagram.com/scandinavianhideaway/
https://scandinavianhideaway.dk/
I made an energy saving plug control
Writing my own energy-saving Python script (without ChatGPT) to control my radiators.
I built an Insta filter called Mind Blown
Half a million impressions worldwide (strangely popular in Brazil) of a stupid Tim & Eric inspired effect I made in an evening. Click here to try it out.
I set up a pop-up restaurant in London
Along with some friends I was involved in a pop-up restaurant in a marquee, on a building site, on Old Street roundabout. It was called Ronny Saunders’ Diners Union. I did the website and not much else apart from eat the food - it was a blast.
I publish eBooks
I get out of copyright texts, code them up into nicely designed ePubs, and sell them on the iBookstore.