For my Master's Degree in Games User Experience, I wrote and organised the study User Profiling in Game Development: A comparison of theory and practice, where I conducted an ethnography inspired observation at the office of Coffee Stain Studios in order to compare how the academic accounts of categorising one's users compare to how the industry does it in practice.

This study was heavily focused on user research and included a thorough literature study about primarily user profiles, player types and user models. The findings from the literature study were then analysed and compared to data collected from observations at the Coffee Stain Studios' office, as well as qualitative interviews with the UX/UI designers at the studio.

The study resulted in further understandings of user profiles, as well as how user research is implemented and used at game studios.

As part of my Master's Degree program, I had the opportunity to help Angry Demon Studios with their game Gori: Cuddly Carnage, together with two talented course mates. During my very rewarding 4 months with the project, I evaluated the game's accessibility through heuristic evaluations and created accessible design suggestions accordingly. Working with accessibility in games is something I found very rewarding as I had previously only worked with accessibility in web development, but I found that a lot of my learnings from my time in web design were able to be applied for games as well.

Furthermore, I also led extensive playtests of the game's first two levels to research new players' experiences of the game. The playtests were conducted using a "think-aloud" evaluation, where the players are asked to express what they are thinking in each step and why they are making the actions/choices they are doing. This was later complemented with semi-structured interviews. The data from the playtests and interviews were then analysed and compiled for the developers, alongside design suggestions to make the new player experience more intuitive and accessible.

During the pandemic, I conducted a thorough UX project for Flamebait Games in order to improve their game's usability. The work included all parts of the UX-cycle, including heuristic evaluations, qualitative interviews, cognitive walkthroughs, creation of personas, sketching and prototyping. We were initially planning on conducting playtests but due to the pandemic breaking out we changed our plans to be easier to conduct virtually. The pictures shown on the link below are all from an early version of the game that does not represent how the game looks today. The mock-ups are meant to be low- to mid level of fidelity, and were solely meant to illustrate our intended usability improvements. If you have any questions about my work, I'd be more than willing to discuss it further.

During my Bachelor's Degree program, I had the opportunity to help NAIS disability study support to improve the online application for disability support at higher education institutions. The project started with data gathering in form of interviews with the development team, the coordinator for students with disabilities at University of Skövde, and five different users of the system. This gave us a deeper understanding of the users' needs and potential frustrations with the system. After conducting a heuristic evaluation, we created user scenarios and a persona, for us to even further understand the users.

During the conceptualisation phase, we created low-fidelity sketches of how we wanted the system to look like, which we then later created an interactive mid-fidelity prototype with Adobe XD. The project was the first time I worked with accessibility in UX, and gave me lots of insight to how one might design for a more accessible product. Please see the pictures below for a few examples of our work.

As my thesis project for my Bachelor's Degree in UX-design, I developed a new list of design guidelines made for evaluation of the interfaces of digital board games. The research question How can existing design guidelines in interface design be adapted for heuristic evaluation of interface components in digital strategy board games? was answered in three parts. Firstly, a literature study was made were I gathered a list of roughly 100 different design guidelines made for games and/or user interfaces. These were then analysed and categorised through an affinity diagram, that led to a new and shorter list of design guidelines. These were then tested through a heuristic evaluation made on the interfaces of the digital adaptations of Small World and Ticket to Ride.

The purpose of the heuristic evaluation was to determine the quality of the list; to find out if the list contained any unnecessary or vague design guidelines. The list was then iterated based on the findings, and three new heuristic evaluations were made with three different experts in UX and game design. You can find the final list of design guidelines here, or read the full study below.