Hi!

My name is Simen. I’m a Product Designer at CB Insights, where I lead design for our generative AI feature team. CB Insights is a platform providing data and research on private technology companies. That helps investors and corporate strategy departments to make strategic decisions.

My last role was at S&P Global Market Intelligence. There I primarily led the design for S&P’s sustainability (ESG) initiatives including ESG scoring, environmental, climate risk, and impact datasets. I found it very fulfilling, not just working with data for a sustainable future, but also working with new datasets that had no established standards.

I’m driven by curiosity first and foremost. I enjoy working with complex data and crafting a strong story around it. The story always starts with customer insight, and I enjoy spending time with customers for user research, usability testing or just chatting about their problems.

Before I joined S&P, I worked for 4 years as a project and product manager for software development. I worked on various projects from co-founding a political startup to building an enterprise CMS system. Coming into UX Design, my past experience gave me a wider understanding of my work and how my design decisions interact with the product, business goals, and end-users.

When I’m not working you can find me cataloging cyberpunk interfaces. I have a huge store of UIs from different series that caught my interest. I love dark mode design, and cataloging interfaces has inspired and improved my designs in the last few years.

I love music and spend a lot of time keeping up with the latest in indie or electronic music. I also make my own music. Lately, I have been exploring how to make electronic music with the Elektron Digitone but played in a post-punk band in the past.

I also enjoy reading. Usually two books at a time. One to entertain me and one to learn about something. I primarily read fantasy in the past, but have been venturing out recently. Some favorites include Kafka on the Shore by Murakami Haruki, Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut, and The Power Broker by Robert Caro.

🇳🇴 Jeg er født og oppvokst i Norge.
🇯🇵 少し日本語を話せますが、もっと上手になれるように勉強しています。