Hi! I'm a Senior UX Designer in the Oslo area.

When the time came for me to choose a career direction, I wavered between graphic design and nursing — because I liked to draw, and wanted to help people. I ended up choosing graphic design (the sight of blood makes me dizzy!), but I missed feeling like my career benefited people. Since discovering UX design a few years later, I've managed to combine the best of both worlds, by using my design skills to make products that help people work efficiently, learn to love reading, and even swim faster! Finding elegant solutions to problems people face is a big motivator for me, and is at the core of why I chose to enter the UX design industry.

When I'm not at work I enjoy spending time with friends, learning how to grow fruits and vegetables, and painting.

Want to work together? Get in touch: megan.e.rad@gmail.com

Some of the brands I've worked with

Brands I've worked with include Disney, Ava Security (a Motorola Solutions Company), Canadian National Defence, Peeps and Company, Assent Compliance, Mercury Filmworks, Moshi Monsters, Corel software and more.

Experience

After over 10 years of delivering user-friendly solutions in both public and private sectors, I can use my experience to help you take your design project from start all the way to completion.

I have had responsibility for ensuring the user experience of entire products, and thrive on solving complex problems. I am both detail-oriented and focused on seeing the big picture — both from the users' and business' perspectives. It's exciting to see how the small details fit together to create holistic experiences over time for the people who use them.

I moved to Norway from Canada in 2019, and am now fluent in Norwegian as well as English. However I have now forgotten how to speak French. Sorry, eh! 🤷‍♀️

My Linkedin profile has more details if you're the curious type.

Selected projects

example of a screen design from Assent, which is a list of compliance forms the user had to submit

Simplifying compliance reporting

I led the design and strategy of a complex product used by 500,000+ global users, which allowed for the collection of large amounts of precise compliance data from our customers' suppliers.

A big part of this role was not only planning for our next steps for the product, but also sharing those plans with stakeholders in other departments, to get alignment on the direction.

What I did:

  • Product strategy and planning
  • Service design and user research (interviews, focus groups, surveys, etc)
  • UX & UI design
  • Stakeholder management
the TritonWear app was a way for coaches to see their swimmers' stats in real-time, while they were swimming

Helping competitive swimmers get faster through advanced metrics tracking

TritonWear is a system that lets coaches track competitive swimmers' metrics in real-time, and analyze them in detail to help them improve.

I was the lead designer for TritonWear's entire digital product offering, and performed tests of the hardware & software IRL at the pool. Real-life testing helped me better understand the coaches and swimmers who use the products, showed me flaws in my design thinking, and even led to me becoming a faster swimmer!

What I did:

  • Remote user testing
  • Testing new features in-person at the pool
  • UX & UI design of data-heavy apps
  • Website design
  • User documentation
  • Illustration
two images: one of Mickey Mouse and the other from Frozen, showing how the AR books worked

Fostering an early love of reading through Augmented Reality books

Licensed by Disney Imagicademy and Moshi Monsters, these books allowed children to read physical books and unlock extra 3D content and games by scanning special pages with a tablet or phone.

What I did:

  • UX & UI design for AR apps
  • Physical book layout and design
  • Icon design
  • Ecommerce website development, on Shopify's platform
  • Hand model 📸
screenshot from the Ava platform, showing how their heatmaps and other smart features worked

Keeping businesses safe through smart video monitoring

This video security product features AI-enabled counting of people and vehicles, license plate recognition, heat maps, and more. In addition to designing the UX of these features, I also worked on designing the interactions and stories for how people would use the digital platform as a whole.

Avigilon Alta is owned by Motorola Solutions.

What I did:

  • Interaction & UX design
  • User testing
  • Design and maintenance of an internal design component library
screenshot from Finansportalens website

Making financial information more accessible

Finansportalen is a well-known website that helps people all over Norway make better financial choices.

I was brought in as a consultant to assess the accessibility of the site, and advise them in how to go forward with any necessary changes. While completing the site audit, I also held regular accessibility meetings with the in-house product managers. These meetings helped them understand the issues, how to prioritise them, and how to move forward with accessibility in the future.

What I did:

  • Audit of the state of the website based on WCAG standards
  • Prioritised issues with product owners
  • Collaborated with developers to find solutions

Have a project in mind?

I can help you with:

Service design / Journey mapping / Product strategy / Design research / Accessibility (WCAG) / Design of complex systems / Website & app design / Communication / UX design / UI & visual design / Storytelling / Business thinking / Branding / Collaboration

Get in touch:
megan.e.rad@gmail.com