About Oscar Fredriksson - Senior Product Designer

I’m Oscar. A product designer with a Master’s degree in interaction design, specializing in complex B2B products.

With 8+ years of experience at Zalando, Spotify, and Forza Football, I’m comfortable designing end-to-end; from unfolding user needs to moving pixels, and occasionally pushing codeLike this portfolio, written in HTML/CSS + JavaScript.


Experience

2024 - Present
Senior Product Designer
Zalando

Leading the design of the ZEOS Help Center, ZEOS Developer Portal as well as the onboarding and integration experiences for ZEOS One – Zalando’s B2B fulfillment portal.

  • Streamlined the onboarding process in close collaboration with product and key account managers, cutting estimated time-to-market by ~40%.
  • Revised the information architecture of ZEOS One to seamlessly accommodate 9 new capabilities in a logical and scalable manner.
  • Drove the design and implementation of our Help Center, leading to an approximate 10% reduction in support ticket volume.
2020 - 2024
Senior Product Designer
Spotify

Spearheaded the design of the commercial Backstage plugin Skill Exchange, improved core developer tools for Spotify’s iOS and Android engineers and contributed to the Backstage component library.

  • Successfully commercialised Skill Exchange with external partners, including Shutterstock, Peloton and SeatGeek in the US.
  • Delivered design improvements within Skill Exchange that contributed to an approximate 15% reduction in first-year attrition among internal users.
  • Partnered closely with the Platform designers to establish process templates, UI patterns and design system components to foster cohesion across the commercial Backstage plugin suite.
2018 - 2020
Product Designer
Forza Football

Led the 0-to-1 design of Forza Football Reporter, a brand-new tool introducing a novel engagement funnel that allowed users to feature their local teams in the main Forza Football app alongside professional clubs.

  • Established a bottom-up design system optimised for mobile from scratch, including a comprehensive custom iconography library.
  • Expanded the product's capabilities to support youth tournaments, directly enabling an official partnership with Gothia Cup (the world's largest youth football tournament).

Education

2018 - 2020
Chalmers Institute of Technology
Gothenburg, Sweden

MSc, Interaction Design & Technologies

2017 - 2018
Simon Fraser University
Vancouver, Canada

World Wide Exchange to the School of Interactive Arts and Technology

2014 - 2017
Chalmers Institute of Technology
Gothenburg, Sweden

BSc, Industrial Design Engineering

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