Jonas Maaløe
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Jonas Maaløe

Designer in Copenhagen

About

Designer with a knack for product discovery, a love for playful software, and a decade's experience defining; designing and delivering software that respect its users' attention.

My core skills are in UX design, product discovery, user research methods, game design, rapid prototyping, presenting design work, and shipping software to end-users.

Jack of all trades, master of some.

Teams

Current
Modl.ai

Projects

2021

Led the end-to-end discovery & delivery for a new feature to enhance consumer trust for Trustpilot's company pages as the team's senior designer and interim product manager.

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2017

Produced and co-designed a minimalistic puzzle game for fans of brain teasers and Rubik's Cubes.

+9
2016

Transformed Uni-Tel's flagship VoIP product from a usability nightmare to a delightfully powerful B2B platform.

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2016

Producrd and co-designed a mobile event game for 2-200 players all abourt communication and blindfolding your friends.

2015

6 mini-games in 1 app that turn your mobile phone into novel new game controllers. Made for Cartoon Network's "We Bare Bears" animated show's as the show's official launch game title.

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2014
'Human—Avatar Controller' at w00t Play Festival
2014
'Bonkell' at Roskilde Festival
2012
'He Decided To Fly' at ALT CTRL Game Jam

Contact

Website
Bento
Posts.cv
Instagram

Work Experience

2023 — Now
Copenhagen

Moved from Berlin → Copenhagen to build professional AI-first game development software at the startup modl.ai

2022 — 2022
Lead Product Designer at Saiga
Berlin

Saiga was an early Berlin-based start-up making a magical AI-supported virtual assistant for life admin. Closed in Aug 2022

2021 — 2022
Berlin

Relocated from Copenhagen → Berlin to join GetYourGuide's consumer platform's traveller discovery and tour booking experience team.

2019 — 2021
Copenhagen

Led product discovery and delivery for several key strategic initiatives across Trustpilot's business platform as part of its Business Experience team.

2014 — 2018
Copenhagen

Glitchnap was a band that made games instead of records, producing six award nominated and winning games over five years.

2014 — 2018
Freelance UX/UI Designer
Copenhagen

Helped small and mid sized organisations plan, build and launch things on the web.

2011 — 2013
Copenhagen

1508 is an award winning strategic design agency in Copenhagen.

2009 — 2010
Product Manager at VERK
Copenhagen

VERK was a small web agency specialised in open source web technologies. Acquired by NodeOne in 2011.

Speaking

2021
"I Never Want To Go Back To (The Whiteboards That We Have In) The Office" at Ørsted A/S Design Group
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2021
"Tinder Is The Best F2P Game Ever Made" at Trustpilot
2014
"Local² Multiplayer" at JOIN 2014
Berlin

Writing

2015

A year in the life of a small independent game studio

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2017
Game Of The Day invert • Invert — App Store Feature from Apple