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Product
Designer

Vemund Strøm
NAV IT Oslo
I'm better at design than golf

Making complex systems feel simple.
UX and interaction design for digital tools used by thousands.

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What I believe

The best design is invisible.
It doesn't announce itself.
It just makes hard things easy
and complex things clear.

Work
01
Labour market
measures
NAV ITProduct DesignFigma2026 NowCurrent
Labour Market
Measures

Designing interfaces for caseworkers, advisors and organizers across Norway's employment support system. Fast-paced product design in a team of five developers.

03
Norad.no
redesign
NORADUX DesignResearch2023 2024
Norad.no
Redesign

Embedded at NORAD, I ran user research and workshops from the inside, feeding insights to the external design team building the new site.

04
GranMa
platform
NORADResearch2023 2024
GranMa

Research into the collaboration between Norwegian embassies, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and NORAD which contributed to a new digital grant management platform.

How I work
How I
actually work.
01
People first
I am good at getting people to collaborate. Quiet users, skeptical stakeholders, teams that do not quite agree. I find a way to make everyone feel heard and move forward together.
02
Complexity made simple
Give me something messy and I will make it make sense. I take complicated problems with many stakeholders and moving parts and find the structure underneath. Then I make that visible.
03
Close to the build
I stay in it past handoff. Reviewing builds, catching edge cases, making sure what ships actually matches what users need not just what looked good in Figma.
About
Design
is mostly
listening.

I'm a product designer who makes complex systems feel simple. My work lives in flows, logic, and interaction design the stuff between a user and a hard problem.

I sketch fast, prototype early, and put things in front of real users as soon as possible. I like field visits and direct feedback. I can also find myself three hours deep in Figma, having forgotten to blink.

I design systems-first, from atomic components up, and hand off work developers can actually build from.

Generative AI for UX/UI
Coursera 2026
React Basics
Meta 2026
Intermediate to Advanced Figma
Skillshare 2026
UX Design Certificate
Google 2023
Introduction to Front-End Development
Meta 2023
Design-Driven Innovation in Depth
DOGA 2024
Vemund Strøm in Barcelona
2026 Now
NAV IT Labour Market Measures
Product Designer
Designing interfaces for caseworkers, advisors and organizers in the labour market measures section. Fast-paced product design in a small team of four fullstack developers and a product lead.
Current
2024 2026
NAV IT Sickness Benefits
Service Designer
Research, facilitation and journey mapping across the sickness benefits value chain. Helped bridge the gap between legal complexity and what the team could actually build.
2023 2024
NORAD
Service Designer
Website redesign and internal advisory systems for Norway's development cooperation agency. Facilitated workshops, ran user testing and shaped information architecture.
2022 2023
Elisava, Barcelona
MSc Strategic Design in Complexity
Thesis: Happy People Work a leadership toolkit for small creative agencies. Research through interviews, observations and co-design workshops.
2019 2022
Kristiania University College
BSc Service Design
Thesis: Liquidity Check a fraud detection tool helping everyday investors navigate cryptocurrency risk.
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