I've now been teaching full-time at Chalmers (a Swedish university) for 6 months. I've been teaching courses in both interaction design and software engineering. Most of the courses I teach are directed either towards design students or software engineering students, resulting in project work where all students have similar skills…
As far back as I can remember, I've kept a journal, either as a digital file or as a physical notebook. I've found notebooks as far back as when I was 6, probably soon after I started to learn to write. Now, I still journal daily, more than twenty years…
Learn what makes a design portfolio compelling. Based on a workshop with 50+ interaction design students, discover practical tips for showcasing your work.
Amalie Trudsø is a Danish author who writes novels about women's lives with references to Copenhagen, where she now lives in Vesterbro. Kunsternerhjem (Artist's home) is a book about a woman's life from the 1940s to the 1970s, illustrating gender roles and expectations, a woman's need for financial independence and…
Explore AI tools for UX/UI design in 2025. Research-backed insights and practical tips for Figma Make, Claude Code, Cursor, and experimental workflows from a design lecturer.
This month, I've been loving listening to Sahar's music. According to his Spotify profile, he's from Middlesbrough, England, and is also known as Levi Stubbs. I would describe his music as very rhythmic electronic dance music, sometimes leaning on the darker side, and sometimes not. It puts me in a…
Which are the current best UX/UI design softwares for 2021? Here's a list of the top 6 that are industry-standards.b
Are you looking for great bars and places to hang out in Gothenburg? Here are my best tips for places I love to hang out in Gothenburg (where I was born and grew up).
Are you looking for your next travel destination? If you love electronic music, contemporary art installations, bookstores, stationery, and design stores with interior and clothing pieces, these are my top recommendations of cities for you to visit! My top 6 favorite cities in Europe Berlin, Germany Copenhagen, Denmark Prague, Czech…
As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly woven into our daily lives through self-tracking apps, digital assistants, and personalized recommendations, we need new frameworks to understand this relationship. Human-AI entanglement is a concept rooted in Karen Barad's agential realism and Fourth Wave HCI research, which offers a profound shift in how we…
The rise of generative AI tools, like Figma Make, transforms design into "Vibe Designing," paralleling "Vibe Coding." Using natural language prompts, designers create prototypes and iterate through AI assistance or manual edits. While fostering creativity and efficiency, challenges include design fixations, generic outcomes, and the risk of diminishing critical skills in designers.
In this article, I'm presenting generative AI works I did for a course in AI and Design—Concepts and Methods, that focused on generative AI tools for image generation, 3D AI generation, AI Video Generation, using LLMs as a design method, and ethics. The tools we explored were: AI tools in Adobe…
About Generative AI Generative AI is a technology that can create new things, such as images, videos, text, and voice. It learns from a large library of examples, such as stock images or sourced from the internet. What's amazing with it today is the quality of content that it can…
Human-Centered AI is about designing AI systems and technologies for human values and ethics, while keeping the user in control.
I’m on a quest right now - I’m on a mission to learn how to not live for other people’s validation. If no one - not your family, friends, partner, acquaintances, or even strangers could see or know what you were doing - how would you be spending your time? What would you be doing? The first step for me on this journey is to start practicing social media minimalism.
“Solo slow travel” means to travel by yourself, staying for weeks up to multiple months in a place. It does not mean that you can’t have visitors or make new friends, just that you’re not planning the trip together with someone else. You are not waiting for someone else to…
You need to choose your own problems because otherwise your brain will choose useless ones for you. Here’s how
Who doesn't want a dark mode user interface (UI) in all of their apps? The best one I've tried is: Bear App!
Dark Matter is an exhibition in Berlin, focused on light art & audiovisuals. It takes place in pitch-black rooms. Here's my review of Dark Matter
