Kåre magnus
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Kåre Magnus Sand Solvåg
kåre magnus sand solvåg

freelancer working to bring balance between planet and businesses.

humans, environment, social issues

Accenture IX.0 Innovation Network,

MiMo,

Industry X.0 Culture,

Tise,

Social Projects

and

Refugee Text Service

Loop, NExTWORK, Whole Festival, Accenture IX.0, MiMo, Tise, Social Projects and Refugee Text Service

Accenture IX.0 Innovation Network,

MiMo,

Industry X.0 Culture,

Tise,

Social Projects

and

Refugee Text Service

&&

products, services, practices, operations

Loop, NExTWORK, Whole Festival, Accenture IX.0, Bosch, Porsche, Deutsche Bank, Canyon Bicycles and ABB

Accenture IX.0 Innovation Network,

Bosch,

Porsche,

Deutsche Bank,

Canyon Bicycles

and

ABB

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freelancing service designer >

2020-current
During these projects I have been working as a service designer for clients with a social equality or environmental focus. Main service offerings within organisational and system research, translating this work into functional systems, ways of working or processes, quickly. 
Selected clients:
Rockwool Foundation, Loop and Whole Festival.
NExTWORK - Support structures for self-organised teams in a scalable network organisation
Organisational design, structures and coordinated ways of working for municipal teams with shared purpose and mission.
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Project time: 6 months
Area: Social services
Team: Program manager, two Designers, two psychologists
Client: Rockwool Foundation
Website: nextworks.dk
Details coming soon
Loop - Tools and processes for sensitive case management
Survivor centric case management processes and digital tools to assess and refer highly sensitive cases from survivors in an humanitarian sectors, whilst ensuring increased accountability by the involved actors.
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Project time: 8 months
Area: Humanitarian sector
Team: Design Lead, Case Manager, Loop CEO
Client: Loop
Website: talktoloop.org
Loop receive a wide range of feedback about services, as well as stories about how interventions are impacting on people’s lives. These include sensitive stories of sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment as well as reports about serious complaints of fraud, corruption or other misconduct.

Loop needed a way to process these sensitive stories through a safe professional referral pathway, with specialist case managers handling each story individually, without putting the survivors at risk.

Working with experienced case managers in the humanitarian sector we first concepted and designed a process to catagorise, organise and follow up on sensitive stories where Loop wanted to further accountability. This process lay the foundation for the work with designing and developing the case management solution we went on to build.

Through an iterative design, test and build process, we created a way for Loop's case managers to recieve sensitive stories from the Loop platform, a facilitated way to categorise and open cases that can followed up on with the approriate actors and in due time.

To assist the case managers in tracking their work, complex cases and follow up procedures, which often can span years, we designed a system together, alonside a SOP, that would would make the process easy to follow and partly automated.

The final piece of the work, was to create a visibility of these sensitive stories, which obviously are not published, in a way to increase the pressure on, and therefore accountability of the organisations involved in the case. This led us to catagorise and summarise the various status the cases have, in real time, and present this in a publicly available data dashboard.

Currently launched in Zambia, Somalia, the Phillipines as well as in Ukraine.
Whole Festival - Digital touchpoints making physical events safer during a pandemic
Making a music festival possible by designing and developing a festival app and booking system with festival goers health, safety and enjoyment in symbiosis.
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Project time: 6 months
Area: Event
Team: Senior Visual Designer, Full stack developer
Client: Whole GmbH
Website: wholefestival.com
Details coming soon
NExTWORK - Adapting virtual ways of working to the challenges of the welfare society
Helping new company-oriented employment effort for young people in vulnerable positions, making digital infrastructures work for them, and enhancing their cross network knowledge sharing and collective memory.
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Project time: 6 months
Area: Social services
Team: Program manager, Service Design Lead
Client: Rockwool Foundation
Website: nextworks.dk
In a time of societal lockdown, we looked into how we can help this network of governental and social workers adapt to remote work, whilst continously learn and improve on the employment services delivered to young people in vulnerable positions.

Through exstensive research, key potentials for immediate and long term impact was identified and designed for. Digital ways of working and tools where developed together with employees in NExTWORK to meet the immediate working needs, and longer term knowledge exchange and development of the teams practice and methods throughout the network.

service and interaction designer at fjord >

2017-2020
During my time at Fjord Berlin I worked as an interaction designer, gradually re-focussing towards service design areas like research, concepting and leading product streams. In my projects, I had the responsibility to represent the users in the design process, working with business designers, strategists, developers, visual designers, clients and guiding junior interaction and service designers.
Selected clients:
Porsche, Bosch, ABB, Deutsche Bank, Canyon Bicycles, Volkswagen Group, Shire Pharmaceuticals, Novartis and Accenture.
Purposeful innovation strategy
Innovation for the sake of innovation. We brought purpose into [confidential]'s industry client offering when we created their new strategy for their global innovation network. Innovate for economic, environmental and societal impact.
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Project time: 7 months
Area: Strategy
Team: Service Design Lead, two Business Designers, Strategy Consultant, Visual Designer
As a service designer I led the discovery and research efforts when we as a team conducted qualitative and quantitative research with key stakeholders and existing innovation centres across the globe.

I helped the team with synthesising and structuring our research to insights and opportunities socialisable for stakeholders and to inform our strategy work.

Working with a project lead, business designers and a strategy consultant we designed a new strategy for the [redacted] industry innovation network - making its purpose to balance economic growth with positive environmental and societal impacts our clients can make across [confidential]'s business silos.

This strategy is now reaching [confidential]'s C-level.
Mobility user experience
We helped a technology company strategically position themselves for the autonomous future of mobility user experiences bringing user, market and technology research together with rapid prototyping.
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Project time: 2 months
Area: Product innovation strategy
Team: Business Design Lead, Business Consultant, four Strategy Consultants
Technologies, customer needs and regulations are evolving and shaping the future of mobility, and so are the OEMs.

As a service designer and researcher I led user research with rapid prototyping, user experience mapping, workshop creation and contextualising the research for the client.

With our research we were able to outline several future scenarios of in-car experiences and advice our OEM client on how they should strategically position themselves to meet upcoming business needs.

This project showed me how user centric research, combined with technology understanding and industry ecosystem know-how can be very powerful for guiding C-level strategies.
Exploring luxury and exclusivity in digital
A Horizon 3 project; exploring the essences of digital ownership, discovering what drives digital users to collect, own and trade digital assets for investment or pleasure.
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Project time: 6 months
Area: Digital value frontiers
Team: Business Design Lead, Business Consultant, Business Designer, Visual Designer, Intern
I joined the project in the concepting phase, inhereting extensive user research, spanning niche technology and user trends around digital collecting, gaming and digital investing.

As a service designer I led a series of bespoke sprints for the team (based on the Google sprint). We started with a sprint 0 designed to define a series of challenges for upcoming concept sprints - applying the Google sprint methodology to move at speed.

Through 3 concept sprints we uncovered resonating themes, features and design drivers fit for our client and their desired target audiences before heading to market with high-fidelity prototypes.

In this project we explored digital's push-and-pull effects on experiences of luxury and exclusivity, and how technology can enable this. We created a platform concept for digital collecting, trading and investing, with key experiences that drive user motivations.
MiMo - a single button migraine assistant
In the moment of an attack, migrainers seek out a mental safe space to find relief. Mimo strives to provide a safe space during the inescapable case of an attack. Helping sufferers to take back control of their lives.
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Project time: 8 months
Area: Service and interaction design
Team: Business Design Lead, three Business Designers, Visual Designer, Interaction Designer
As a service and interaction designer I co-led the product stream through extensive user research, synthesis and prioritisation, iterative prototyping and concepting, working closely with developers.

The project was initiated with a concrete concept. My work gravitated around iterative testing, prototyping and validating of this concept with users. In this process, we uncovered  fundamental user needs essential to design for, leading to re-orientation of the whole team.

We designed a migraine assistant that help chronic migrainers not only in the inevitable attack, but through all stages of their illness - by facilitating mindfullness and feeling of being better prepared.

The largest effect MiMo has for it's users, is that it is designed for them, taking their condition seriously - combating an ever present feeling of stigma.

design researcher for tise

During my time at Fjord Berlin I worked as an interaction designer, gradually re-focussing towards service design areas like research, concepting and leading product streams. In my projects, I had the responsibility to represent the users in the design process, working with business designers, strategists, developers, visual designers, clients and guiding junior interaction and service designers.
Selected clients:
Porsche, Bosch, ABB, Deutsche Bank, Canyon Bicycles, Volkswagen Group, Shire Pharmaceuticals, Novartis and Accenture.
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'tise - second hand fashion platform
Project time: 2 months
Area: Service and interaction design
Team: Individual freelance project
Reinforcing users sustainable values for a second hand peer-to-peer  trading platform - making the shopping experience of used products as easy as new, but much more satisfying.
Conducted user research to find opportunities for UX

service designer and co-founder at social projects >

2016-2018
We founded a startup working on refugee and humanitarian information services for NGOs and launched, serviced and operated Refugee Text targeting asylum seekers in Europe.
Selected clients:
Danish Refugee Council, UNHCR and UNDP.
Refugee Text
Awarded
Making verified and trustworthy asylum information available on demand to any refugee with a phone.
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Project time: 16 months
Area: Service and interaction design
Team: Ciaran Duffy, Caroline Arvidsson
Next to co-founder responsibilities I was focusing on prototyping, technology needs, development, content design, research and partnerships.

In the project we went through re-design of initial concept, iterative functional prototyping, pilot and launch of the service to end-users, as well as research, design and development of a CMS for NGOs to operate deployed information services.

Refugee Text, a multi-channel chatbot, was launched and operated by us together with partnering NGOs and volunteers, providing asylum content and translations.

RefuBot, a backend CMS we designed to easily update and translate the fast changing content, fit for multiple organisations working together.
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interaction design student at copenhagen institute of interaction design >

2015
CIID Interaction Design Programme is led by a ‘learning by doing’ philosophy and a life-centred approach. The programme teaches fundamental skills, methods, and tools related to tangible/product interactions, graphical/screen interactions, and service design/strategic interactions.

CIID provides a new model of education that is relevant for both academia and industry. Through collaborative Industry Partnerships and industry-facing projects, students are exposed to a broad range of topics and real-world contexts.
Selected clients:
Barclays, LittleBits and Copenhagen International House.
Refugee Text Service
Awarded
Aimed at refugees coming to Germany, Denmark and Scandinavia, the Refugee Text Service fills the information void created by an ever-changing political landscape.
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Project time: 2 months
Area: Service and interaction design
Team: Individual project
During the end-of-the-year project, the service was co-created and piloted with local NGOs in Denmark and Germany.

It provides refugees with access to information about who they can talk to, who they can trust, and what their options are, depending on their situation. This chatbot service was conceptualised and built for SMS usage across Europe.
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Copenhagen Meetups
Awarded
A social community service connecting newcomers with local residents weaving supportive and personal network connections into the process of immigration.
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Project time: 1 month
Area: Service and interaction design
Team: Sierra Nelmes, Shruti KNR, John Ferreira
Connecting newcomers who recently arrived in Copenhagen with resident Copenhageners in order to weave supportive and personal network connections into the process of immigration. The service facilitates a network of support and guidance by connecting people and establishing cross-cultural networks.

Created with and for Copenhagen International House.
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design engineering student at technical university of denmark >

Design and Innovation
BSc Mechanical Engineering
Technical University of Denmark
2010-2013
Society and the business community are under constant pressure to develop new, innovative products and systems. Pressure created by our common need to exploit technological opportunities to improve our welfare and prosperity—and industry’s particular need to increase competitiveness and earnings. As a design and innovation engineer, I went to learn to develop new technological solutions that conserve resources and support the development of a sustainable society.
Selected clients:
Lolle & Nielsen Inventions and Saint-Gobain Weber.
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