Gunnar Harboe
Tjenestedesigner (Service Designer) at Bouvet ASA
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolGunnar Harboe is a seasoned service designer and HCI expert based in Oslo with nine years of professional experience and a research career dating back to 2004. He blends deep academic training (PhD, University of Zurich; MHC, Carnegie Mellon; BA Cambridge) with hands-on programming to take concepts from paper prototypes through interactive mockups to production, rigorously validating usability at each stage. Gunnar has led service design at Fortum and worked across industry labs (Motorola) and academia, designing social mobile, music, and TV experiences as well as mixed paper-digital tools for data analysis. Comfortable bridging research, teaching, and product teams, he supervises students and translates exploratory insights into technical architectures and deployed features. A practical multidisciplinary thinker, he often pairs ethnographic fieldwork with lightweight prototyping and developer-facing documentation to speed technology transfer.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Informatics (Human-Computer Interaction), magna cum laude, PhD, Informatics (Human-Computer Interaction), magna cum laude at University of ZurichBA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at University of CambridgeMaster of HCI, Human-Computer Interaction, 3.74 GPA (A-), Master of HCI, Human-Computer Interaction, 3.74 GPA (A-) at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Norwegian, Swedish, German, French, Spanish
Github Skills (1)
source-engine10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
messengerbag/SpeechBubble
Dec 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:3 releases, 4 commits, 6 pushes in 20 days
messengerbag/Clipboard
Mar 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:1 release, 7 commits, 10 pushes in 2 months
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