Senior Service Designer with UX- and Industrial design competencies

I am a Service Designer with 9+ years of working experience in design. As a designer I strive to improve the futures of the people affected by my projects. I'm currently working at Scania’s innovation lab Sustainable City Solutions.

I began my professional career by working as a designer of physical products for two and a half years. In 2009 I began studying Industrial Design at Konstfack. During my time there I did two exchanges, at the Glasgow School of Art and at Aalto Arts in Helsinki. After graduating my MA in 2014 I co-founded a public funding-backed startup focusing on smart textiles as interfaces. I have also since worked as a Service Designer at the design agencies Ocean and Designit .

I work collaboratively through all phases of the design process, from research all the way to evolving the "finished" result. The thing that made me fall for co-creation is what I like to call Brain Love, moments when a team come together and create ideas so beautiful that everyone in the room can feel it. 

You can read more about what I've worked on on my Linkedin page.

P.S. I'm currently very pre-occupied with design and future politics. Especially automation as a possibilty for a better society. If you are too, I'd love to hear from you, maybe we could exchange ideas. 

Contact me

I'm based in Stockholm, Sweden. If you want to drop me a few lines, contact me at:

markgrendesign@gmail.com