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Tim Johansson — Design Engineer
Designing and building apps from idea to release. Ten years in full time roles as both product designer and software engineer, before that was one job, so there's no handoff in between.
Latest projects
1. Balance Golf — Player Hub
A cross-platform mobile app that gives golf players one place to train, track progress, and stay connected to their coach.
Design: Figma · Pen & paper · Claude Code
Build: React Native · Expo · TypeScript · Reanimated · Skia · Cursor · Claude Code
[ Video — Balance Golf — Player Hub hero: the app running on an iPhone. Training programs, activity log and progress, with the level and XP motion on show ]
Balance Golf — Player Hub · 2025–26
A cross-platform mobile app that gives golf players one place to train, track progress, and stay connected to their coach.
Where it lives: App Store (https://apps.apple.com/app/id6753978226) · Google Play (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.balancegolf.playerhub)
Role
Design Engineer. Sole designer and developer. I designed the product, built the app for iOS and Android, and own both store releases. A part-time backend engineer built the API.
Outcome
Shipped to App Store and Google Play in May 2026, now rolling out gradually to clubs and players. 1000+ downloads so far across the App Store and Google Play, and 4.6 on the App Store from 23 reviews.
[ Image, Home and activities, dark — four phone screens in dark mode: home with a handicap chart, home with a driver distance chart, both with the latest activity and shortcuts to log a round, log training or self assess above a tab bar, then a logged range session with its photo, date, mood and a 7 iron distance, and a logged golf round with its photo, course, mood and points ]
[ Image, Profile, swing, achievements and chat, dark — four phone screens in dark mode: the player profile with a large photo, club, handicap, time ambitions and a theme setting, a spine angle screen with an illustrated golfer and a slider, achievements with level, XP and completed challenge badges, and a chat with the coach where the player has shared an activity and a swing photo ]
[ Image, Home and activities, light — the same four screens in light mode: home with the handicap chart, home with the driver distance chart, the logged range session and the logged golf round ]
[ Image, Profile, swing, achievements and chat, light — the same four screens in light mode: the player profile, the spine angle screen, achievements, and the chat with the coach ]
Eight screens in both themes, dark first. The coach's side already lived in Coach Hub. Everything here is the player's.
Context
Client project via my consulting firm, ~4 months. Balance Golf already offered Coach Hub for coaches. Player Hub is its player-facing counterpart. Figma for the initial direction and core screens, then straight into building. Most iteration happened in code, with Figma as a place to test ideas when I needed one.
Problem
Coaches had a home in Coach Hub, but players had none, so the relationship broke down between sessions. Coaches assigned training with no visibility into whether or how it happened. Players trained without a way to follow their own progress, and had to wait for the next lesson to ask a question. Player Hub closes that loop. Coaches send programs and see real activity, players track progress and reach their coach directly, attaching swing videos for feedback without waiting for range time.
Key decisions
1. Core before gamification
Stakeholders pushed hard for an advanced player card and level system as the home screen. I argued for shipping the core loop first: exercises, activity log and coach communication. Gamification stayed light until the foundation proved right. Three months after launch the core loop is what the app runs on, and the advanced card is still unbuilt.
2. Value for non-members
The original plan had no journey for users without a golf club or a Balance Golf coach. I designed a clear free path: activity log, exercises and recorded trainings. Premium features were tucked away, so anyone could find value in the app. I also found it was a business opportunity: a free path that proves its value is a way to attract new members.
3. When the metric didn't exist
The home screen was meant to be built on official handicap data. Half way into the build I found the sources couldn't deliver it reliably, and the number the whole screen depended on wasn't going to exist. Rather than drop the screen, I turned it around: players pick the areas they want to improve, set a goal per KPI, and track them at a glance. Progress they define, instead of a single number handed to them. Stakeholders got hands-on with the prototype and it went to production. The structure held, the details moved in build. The version we shipped suits a club player better than a handicap would have. A handicap tells you where you stand, these tell you what you are working on.
[ Video — the KPI section on a phone, picking the areas to improve, setting a goal per KPI, and the home screen tracking them at a glance ]
4. A flexible data structure
Together with the backend engineer I chose a generic data model for KPIs, exercises, and activities early on. It constrained design and code upfront, but let us add any KPI, exercise, or activity without app updates, and respond fast to coach and player feedback during development.
Scope
44 screens across 34 feature areas, built from 61 shared components in strict TypeScript, in English and Swedish, light and dark. Training programs and exercises, activity log, personalized KPIs, achievements and XP, chat with a coach, push notifications, and swing videos players record, upload and draw on for feedback.
Craft
A few visual details from the app.
[ Video — Player Hub — the achievements XP ring filling, with a particle burst scattering off it as the level lands ]
Particles stand for XP throughout the app. Here they move slowly, for improvement that accumulates rather than arrives.
[ Video — Player Hub — the round-complete screen counting up +120 XP, the level bar filling behind it ]
The particles break through a barrier as the player moves up the XP scale.
[ Video — Player Hub — the new-activity card pulsing as a fresh round lands in the feed ]
New activity and important messages get a subtle pulse, left to right across the home page card. Enough to catch the eye on arrival, not enough to keep asking.
Reflection
Our sharpest feedback came from a pro golfer on the stakeholder side, but a pro isn't a club player. I'd have put the prototype in everyday players' hands in person, earlier.
2. Gott — Shared Grocery List
A real-time shared grocery list for solo shoppers and families. Simple on the surface, technically dense underneath.
Design: Figma · Claude Design · Pen & Paper · Claude Code
App Build: SwiftUI · Xcode · Supabase · Claude Code
Website Build: Astro · React Islands · TypeScript · Motion · Claude Code
[ Video — Gott — Shared Grocery List hero: the app running on an iPhone — items being added to a shared list and sorting themselves into aisles on a paper grid ]
Gott — Shared Grocery List · 2025–26
A real-time shared grocery list for solo shoppers and families. Simple on the surface, technically dense underneath.
Where it lives: App Store (https://apps.apple.com/app/id6758612616) · Website (https://gott.timjohansson.com)
Role
Design Engineer. Sole designer and developer. I designed the product, built the iOS app and the Supabase backend, and own the App Store release. Nobody else touched it.
Outcome
Shipped to the App Store in June 2026. Family and friends still use it, week in and week out. No metrics worth quoting, and I'm not going to invent any. It's small, it's fast, and it made my family's weekly shop a little better, which was the whole brief.
[ Image, Lists and the first open, light — four phone screens in light mode: a weekly grocery list grouped under aisle headings such as fruit and vegetables, meat and deli, fish and seafood, and dairy and eggs, with bananas and eggs checked off, the same list scrolled down with sweet potatoes typed into the add item field above the keyboard, the list menu open to switch between weekly groceries, a Saturday dinner party and a cabin weekend or to create or join a list, and the welcome screen with the brand mark, a create your first list button and a link to join with a shared code ]
[ Image, Photo import, light — two phone screens in light mode: a photographed recipe card for crispy salmon tacos in the crop step, then the eleven ingredients the on-device model read from it, from salmon fillets and corn tortillas to smoked paprika, each with its quantity and ready to add ]
[ Image, Profile, stats and aisle order, light — four phone screens in light mode: the profile sheet with an avatar, a category order card showing the first aisles as yellow pills and a stats card with a sparkline, the stats screen with 142 items added and 87 checked, a 30 day chart of items checked off and a weekday chart peaking on Saturday, the same screen scrolled to per list leaderboards where you lead the weekly groceries list ahead of Sara and Mom, and the category order screen listing all thirteen aisles with drag handles ]
[ Image, Recipes, light — two phone screens in light mode: the recipe browser with filters for vegetarian, Mexican and Italian above a list of recipes and their ingredient counts, then butter chicken with rice set to four servings, its twelve ingredients with scaled quantities and a button to add them all ]
[ Image, Lists, photo import, profile and stats, dark — four phone screens in dark mode: the weekly grocery list under its aisle headings, the photo import review with the eleven taco ingredients and their quantities, the profile sheet, and the stats screen with its 30 day and weekday charts ]
Context
Side project, built over evenings and part of a parental leave between December and the June release, about two months of actual working time. Figma and pen and paper for the initial direction, then almost everything iterated in code. Native iOS was a choice rather than a constraint. Staying on one platform meant using it properly instead of designing to the shared denominator, and the iOS domain is where I actually want to spend my time, which matters more on a project nobody is paying for. Family and friends ran TestFlight builds from early on, so the shape of the app came from real weekly shops rather than my own assumptions.
Problem
The grocery list category is crowded and still bad. The apps are either unpleasant to look at or so featured-up that adding milk takes four taps. A shared list has to survive an argument the others lose, because everyone in the house has to agree on it and one bad interaction sends somebody back to notes. I wanted one that was beautiful and immediate, and that stayed out of the way during the two minutes a week it is open. The feature that actually changed my week is photo import with automatic categorisation: snap a recipe or a scribbled list, and the app sorts the items into store order so you walk the aisles once instead of doubling back.
[ Video — photo import on a phone: a printed recipe is cropped in the camera, the ingredients are recognised into a list with quantities and a portion multiplier, and adding them lands each one already sorted under its aisle heading ]
Key decisions
1. One screen, after onboarding
I set the constraint before I set anything else: everything happens on one screen. No tab bar, no settings maze, nothing buried a level deeper than the list it belongs to. It made every later feature request a real argument, because if it could not live on that screen it had to justify replacing something already there. Recipe import, camera capture, voice input, bulk add with undo, smart suggestions, sharing and collaborators all arrived after the rule was set, and every one of them opens over the list rather than somewhere you navigate to. The list screen is 23 view files now, and it is still one screen.
2. The model is the fallback, not the feature
Categorisation is the one piece of real intelligence in the app, and I built it so the model goes last. An item is normalised first, stripping quantities and packaging. Then a deterministic rule engine matches phrases before single words, in Swedish and English, so krossade tomater lands in canned goods and sauces rather than produce. Only when the rules have nothing does it reach the on-device model. If you move an item yourself, that override is stored and beats both from then on. A model that is right nine times in ten is still wrong about the aisle you walk every week, and being wrong twice about the same thing is what makes someone stop trusting an app. Rules keep the common case instant and identical every time, the model takes the long tail, and your correction is permanent.
3. Offline first, because the shop is a dead zone
Two people share a list and one of them is in a basement supermarket with no signal. Writes go to the local store immediately and queue as outbox mutations. A coordinator watches the connection, flushes when it returns, and merges on pull with last write wins. A mutation already in flight refuses to absorb a newer payload, so a second tap during a slow request cannot quietly overwrite what you meant last. Checking an item off never waits for the network, which is the only way the app is usable in the place it is actually used.
4. The sync engine has no interface
All of that is invisible, and staying invisible took its own decision. Every remote operation in flight increments one counter, and the only thing that counter drives is the wave in the background grid. No spinner, no toast, no syncing label anywhere in the app. The paper moves while the app is thinking and settles when it is done. It is one decision made twice, once as an engineer choosing what state to expose and once as a designer choosing what it should look like, and it survives only because nobody had to hand it over.
Scope
One main screen and 7 feature areas, built from 12 shared components across 182 Swift files and around 24,000 lines, in English and Swedish at 387 strings, light and dark, with 87 test files. Shared lists with invite codes and collaborators, streaming voice input, photo import through on-device OCR and an ingredient parser, recipe browse and scaling, smart suggestions, 12 aisle categories, push notifications, and a stats screen with a 30 day series, a weekday pattern and a per list leaderboard. The backend is Supabase, 5 edge functions over an append-only activity events table, with a marketing site beside it in Astro and React islands.
Craft
Craft was allowed to be unnecessary here, as long as it never got in the way. Most of it lives in one place: the background grid, which responds to what the list is doing.
[ Video — Gott — dictating a shopping list, each item appearing in the field the moment it is recognised ]
Words land in the field as they are heard rather than all at once when you stop. Holding them back hides whether it caught you, so you end up repeating yourself into silence. Streaming them means a mishearing is obvious while you are still talking, and you can just say it again.
[ Video — Gott — a shared Family list on its paper grid, carrying from the light theme into the dark one ]
The paper grid is drawn rather than a texture image, so it re-tints with the theme instead of being swapped for a dark copy. One rule renders both, which keeps the light and dark lists the same object rather than two designs that merely resemble each other.
[ Video — Gott — the profile screen's generated avatar, a liquid shape that keeps moving while the screen is open ]
An account with no photo usually leaves a dead grey circle with an initial in it. Generating the mark instead, and letting it keep moving, turns the emptiest state on the screen into the liveliest thing on it, and it costs the person nothing to get one.
[ Video — Gott — the paper grid shifting with the accelerometer as the phone is tilted in the hand ]
The grid reacts to how the phone is actually being held, so the sheet behaves like a surface catching light rather than a picture of one. It is the kind of detail nobody names, and the reason a list app can feel like paper instead of a table of rows.
[ Video — Gott — the welcome screen, its paper grid rippling behind the mark before any content exists ]
The first screen is where a material gets established, so the grid is already moving before there is anything on it. By the time the first list appears the paper reads as the surface the app is printed on, rather than a background picked out to sit behind it.
Reflection
I solved a problem I already had, in a category that didn't need another entry. The craft holds up, but next time I'd rather aim the same care at a more serious problem, like mental health.
3. Lyra — Property Management System
A property management system for hospitality. Everything a property runs on, in one platform.
Design: Figma · FigJam · Pen & paper
[ Video — Lyra — Property Management System hero: the PMS running on a desktop screen, a front-desk arrivals board with guest, room, housekeeping and booking status, in Swedish ]
Lyra — Property Management System · 2023–24
A property management system for hospitality. Everything a property runs on, in one platform.
Role
Design Lead. I built the design system, set up the design process, and led the platform design for three designers and 10+ developers.
Outcome
Three designers kept a team of 10+ developers supplied, and the system is why. One component set and one process meant a feature went from requirement to handover without being redesigned on the way. The PMS went into production after my time on it and is in use by Lyra's customers now, with the customer base growing steadily since. The design team still works to the process I set up, which is the part I did not expect to outlast me.
[ Image, Reception — the arrivals board, both themes — the arrivals board in dark and light side by side: the day's bookings as a table with guest, party, departure, nights, category and room, then housekeeping state, check-in state and a check in button on every row ]
[ Image, Pricing — the rate calendar, both themes — the rate calendar in dark and light side by side: room types down the left, a month of dates across the top, a price in every cell with per guest type supplements beneath them, and booked rooms, free rooms and occupancy summed along the foot ]
[ Image, Reception — the site grid, both themes — the site grid in dark and light side by side: numbered units laid out over a drawn map of the grounds with the paths between them, each unit coloured by the state it is in, and a panel counting arrivals, departures, guests in house and free units ]
[ Image, The page template, at three widths — the page template every screen is built in, in dark: the app shell with its navigation rail, header, subheader and primary and secondary actions at full width, then the same header at two narrower widths with the rail traded for a toggle and the actions reduced to icons at the narrowest ]
Three of the 162, chosen to sit far apart: a table, a grid of numbers and a drawn map, and last the template all of them are built in. Light and dark are the same screens with the token layer swapped, not a second set of them.
Context
Client assignment through my consulting firm, roughly 12 months as design lead inside a longer engagement at Lyra. Around twenty people in the company, so I reported to the PMS project manager and to the owner directly. I came in early into a rewrite. The team had the structure and the logic worked out but few screens built, an unstructured Figma, and no design system or shared component set in either place. The design direction someone had started needed redoing, and doing that early cost far less than it would have later.
Problem
Two problems at once, and only one of them was on screen. Hospitality staff needed to run reservations, check ins, housekeeping, rates and settings out of one product without the product slowing them down. Behind that, design could not keep up with build. The UI and the UX were inconsistent, there was no single set of components in Figma or in code, and as the developer count grew they were building new components for functionality that already existed. Requirements arrived as an Excel sheet of boxes and ideas, and they kept arriving that way for the whole engagement, so the first job on every feature was working out what was actually needed.
Key decisions
1. Never stop the build
Ten developers were mid build and nobody was going to pause them for a design system, so it had to arrive around them. I ran two things at once: an overall UI update to colors, grid and type, so the whole product moved together rather than screen by screen, and the design system itself, built by mapping every component already in use and rebuilding it properly in Figma. All new design came out of the system from that point, and for the screens already built I agreed a migration plan with the developers. The structure underneath, the logic, the UX patterns and the menu, I left alone. It had been thought through properly, and changing it at the same time as everything else would have cost more than it returned. We came back to it later, once the system was steady. The product sat in an in-between state for a while, old screens on the old direction and new ones on the system. That state didn't last, because most of the product turned out to be features that didn't exist yet. By the time I left the PMS was built on the system rather than migrated onto it.
[ Image, When I started — the PMS on the direction it had when I arrived: a maroon shell with a row of sibling product names across the top, a second maroon rail of settings beside it, and the room list on a pale pink page ]
[ Image, The new direction — the same product on the new direction: a dark arrivals board, one quiet rail, and the booking, guest, room, housekeeping and status columns carrying the colour instead of the chrome around them ]
The same product either side of the UI update: the direction that was there when I arrived, and the one the system put in its place.
2. Same names on both sides
I had shipped front ends myself, so the handover was built the way the code would have to receive it. Components in Figma were structured to match their states and properties in code rather than as visual variants, and tokens were named to a convention agreed with the developers so the names in Figma were the names in the build. Light and dark were set up at the token level instead of as a second set of screens. The whole file was built so tokens and component CSS came out of it cleanly, which meant the developers were reading values rather than measuring screenshots. It only happens when the person drawing the component has had to implement one.
[ Image, The library's own contents page — the design system's contents page: four style pages for colours, spacing and radius, icons and type, then thirty-eight component pages running from action bar and badge through to tooltip and toggle, and under those guidelines, roles and organisation, marketing and mockups, and templates ]
[ Image, Spacing and radius, named the way the build names them — two token pages from the Figma library: a spacing ramp running p-1 at 4 pixels through p-12 at 48, and a radius ramp from rounded at 4 pixels through rounded-3xl at 20 and on to rounded-full, every step drawn at its real size beside its name ]
[ Image, One component, every state, both themes — the button and toast pages: every button variant crossed with default, hover and disabled on a light board and the same set again on a dark one, and beside the toast the written guidance on when each of its three variants is used and where on the page it sits ]
[ Image, The shell, at the widths it has to hold — the page template: the app shell with its navigation rail, header, subheader and primary and secondary actions at full width, then the same header at two narrower widths with the rail traded for a toggle ]
What went over was a library rather than a folder of screens: a contents page, the primitives under it, the components built out of those carrying their own states and both themes, and the shell they get arranged in.
3. A spreadsheet is not a requirement
Stakeholders arrived with the screen already drawn and a legacy system as the reference, so I put a low-fi step in front of everything, agreed with the project manager: structure before detail, so we settled what a feature was for before anyone spent a day on how it looked. It gave the designers something objective to argue from too, because a system and written guidelines let you point at consistency and at how people read a screen instead of trading opinions. Alongside it I mapped every feature into product areas on one Figma page, each with its current state, and that page became the index the whole company read, testers and support as much as us. Then the step stopped being needed. Once the system had matured we could sketch by hand and go straight to real components, so stakeholders reacted to something that looked like the product instead of to grey boxes.
[ Image, What a feature had to do — a booking's states drawn as a flow: in progress at the left, then waitlisted, enquiry and provisional, into unconfirmed, guaranteed and confirmed, and out to cancelled, no show, turn away, lost and abandoned, with every move the product allows between them drawn as its own line ]
[ Image, Structure before detail — four pen and paper sketches photographed on a desk, each drawing the areas screen over the same rough app frame: a floor and the rooms on it, the buildings making up one part of a site, a restaurant and the rooms inside it, and a tree of areas standing beside the room list ]
[ Image, The feature map — one Figma page holding the whole product: six product area columns, internal, facility, site, merchant, user and guest, each feature a card carrying a coloured chip for the state it was in, and a note pinned at the top telling a reader to search the file rather than scroll it ]
The low-fi step in the order it ran: what a feature had to do, then what the screen was, then where it sat in the product. That last page became the index the whole company read.
Scope
162 screens across property, facility, merchant and admin in twelve months, almost all of them new rather than redesigned, and roughly half of that surface is configuration rather than booking. That is what shipped. Every feature was worked out as user flows before anything was drawn, and the design ran ahead of the build the whole way, so a good deal more was designed than that number counts. A design system of 38 components carried all of it, in light and dark, with written guidelines and templates beside them. 6 product areas and 22 feature groups, from reception and bookings through pricing and availability to housekeeping, reports and settings, plus an admin tool for property setup, user roles and the configuration complex properties need. Three further products designed alongside the PMS, each on its own small system rather than the PMS one stretched to fit: a native guest portal app, the web booking engine, and a marketing site for campsites and hostels running three themes over one component set.
Reflection
Two things. Stakeholders wanted a great deal of functionality in every feature area, and the pushback from developers was mostly about volume rather than about the design. I should have carried more of that argument myself and did not. And the guest portal app and the marketing site beside the PMS, I designed and had no time to build, and I think a lot of detail was lost after the handover. That is the clearest case I have for why I now do both halves of the job.
4. Lyra — Web Booking Engine
A white-label booking engine that lets guests book straight from a property's own site.
Design: Figma · Pen & paper
Build: Vite · React · TypeScript · Tailwind CSS · Cursor
[ Video — Lyra — Web Booking Engine hero: the booking engine on a laptop and a phone side by side, the same room search on both: dates and guests in the search bar, room cards with photos, prices and amenities, in Swedish ]
Lyra — Web Booking Engine · 2025
A white-label booking engine that lets guests book straight from a property's own site.
Role
Design Engineer. I designed the booking engine, built the front end and wrote the API contracts. A backend developer built the rest.
Outcome
In production at three properties. I handed over a working front end on a mocked backend, and it went live once the backend was built. Before that, Lyra used it to show the platform to prospective customers.
[ Image, Search — the booking engine's search results on desktop: arrival, departure and guests in a pill search bar at the top, then room cards in two columns, each with a large photo, the room name, the price for the stay, floor area, a short description and amenity tags, with a select button on every card ]
[ Image, Your booking — the booking step on desktop: the chosen room with its dates, nights and guests, a list of optional extras beneath it with photos, prices and checkboxes, and a summary column on the right itemising each line, the VAT and the total above a book button ]
[ Image, Checkout — checkout on desktop: an Apple Pay button and the terms and marketing consents at the top, then a contact form with first name, last name, phone, email and country, and the booking summary with the room and itemised total alongside ]
[ Image, Confirmation — the confirmation page on desktop: a thank you heading, the booking number, the room and stay details, a field to send the property a message, the booker's details with a button to add a different guest, the payment method and the itemised price ]
[ Image, The same four steps on phones — the same four steps on phones side by side: search results with a condensed date and guest search, the booking step with extras and a book button pinned to the bottom, checkout with Apple Pay and the contact form and a complete booking button pinned to the bottom, and the confirmation page ]
Context
Client assignment through my consulting firm, about three months inside my time as Lyra's design lead. I took the guest-facing products myself, since that's where craft and detail matter most, while keeping the design system running and supporting the other two designers on the PMS.
Problem
Lyra's PMS had no way for guests to book directly. Properties needed one engine that could carry many different brands and still talk to the PMS. Guests needed a flow that is simple, clear about price and works on any device.
Key decisions
1. Familiar, then simpler
I benchmarked eleven booking flows, from Scandic and Nobis to Booking.com, Airbnb and Foodora. Most hotel flows showed everything at once: long text, too many choices per page, no clear way forward. The goal was never a new way to book a room. I kept the conventions guests already know and took out the rest. Four steps, one clear action on each, and prices in view the whole way, so simpler never means hiding anything.
[ Image, The benchmark board, eleven flows — the benchmark board in Figma: eleven booking flows, one to a row, each captured page by page from the start page through search and room choice to booking, with a Low-Fi column of grey wireframes and a Prototype column of the first screens beside the top rows ]
2. The contract before the backend
I built the front end against a mocked backend, and wrote the contracts the backend developer later built to. So the design kept moving after Figma, in the real product. Flows, spacing and micro-interactions were tuned in code, and stakeholders reacted to something that worked instead of a prototype. The handover was a working front end and the API it expected.
3. Three things to brand
I kept the base deliberately neutral, black and white with no decoration, so any brand could sit on top of it. Customers set three things: logo, font and accent colour. Everything else is locked, so every property gets the same clean flow. Guests are used to booking on a linked page that doesn't quite match the hotel's own site, so close is enough. The part that has to match fully is the button on the property's own site, and that stays theirs to design.
Scope
Four steps from search to confirmation, responsive from phone to desktop, with extras, Apple Pay and a white-label theme over its own small design system.
Reflection
I left before it went to production. The pages and flows shipped as I built them, but some of the spacing, alignment and animation didn't make it through. Next time I'd stay through the first release, or hand over the details that carry the design as explicitly as the endpoints.
Work Experience
Client assignments.
- 2026 · Lyra · Designer + Engineer
- 2025–26 · Balance Golf · Designer + Engineer
- 2024–25 · Primea client projects · Designer + Engineer
- 2023–25 · Lyra · Design Lead + Engineer
- 2022–23 · AstraZeneca · Engineer
- 2022–23 · Västra Götalandsregionen · Designer + Engineer
- 2020–22 · CEVT · Engineer
- 2018–20 · CEVT · Designer + Engineer
- 2017–18 · Swedspot · Engineer
Craft
Scroll down for the small details from the projects I've built.
Small details from the projects I've built.
[ Video — Player Hub — the achievements XP ring filling, with a particle burst scattering off it as the level lands ]
Particles stand for XP throughout the app. Here they move slowly, for improvement that accumulates rather than arrives.
[ Video — Player Hub — the round-complete screen counting up +120 XP, the level bar filling behind it ]
The particles break through a barrier as the player moves up the XP scale.
[ Video — Player Hub — the new-activity card pulsing as a fresh round lands in the feed ]
New activity and important messages get a subtle pulse, left to right across the home page card. Enough to catch the eye on arrival, not enough to keep asking.
[ Video — Gott — dictating a shopping list, each item appearing in the field the moment it is recognised ]
Words land in the field as they are heard rather than all at once when you stop. Holding them back hides whether it caught you, so you end up repeating yourself into silence. Streaming them means a mishearing is obvious while you are still talking, and you can just say it again.
[ Video — Gott — a shared Family list on its paper grid, carrying from the light theme into the dark one ]
The paper grid is drawn rather than a texture image, so it re-tints with the theme instead of being swapped for a dark copy. One rule renders both, which keeps the light and dark lists the same object rather than two designs that merely resemble each other.
[ Video — Gott — the profile screen's generated avatar, a liquid shape that keeps moving while the screen is open ]
An account with no photo usually leaves a dead grey circle with an initial in it. Generating the mark instead, and letting it keep moving, turns the emptiest state on the screen into the liveliest thing on it, and it costs the person nothing to get one.
[ Video — Gott — the paper grid shifting with the accelerometer as the phone is tilted in the hand ]
The grid reacts to how the phone is actually being held, so the sheet behaves like a surface catching light rather than a picture of one. It is the kind of detail nobody names, and the reason a list app can feel like paper instead of a table of rows.
[ Video — Gott — the welcome screen, its paper grid rippling behind the mark before any content exists ]
The first screen is where a material gets established, so the grid is already moving before there is anything on it. By the time the first list appears the paper reads as the surface the app is printed on, rather than a background picked out to sit behind it.
About
New tools and models land most weeks and I try the ones that look like they can make the work better. Claude Code does the writing now. The design is still mine. What to build, how the flows work, how it should feel to use, and whether what comes back is good enough. That judgement took years of building by hand.
It means more ideas tried, a better product, and out sooner. The time that's left goes into motion, states and the details that decide how an app feels, after the thing already works.
Computer engineering, then interaction design, at Chalmers. I've worked in design teams and I've shipped alone, and I'm better in a team for having done both.
Based in Gothenburg.