Hello! I’m Gabriel.
ABOUT
Gabriel Uggla is a Swedish UX designer & strategist that creates delightful visuals, services and products. As a born and raised Scandinavian, he strives to design simple, thoughtful, and beautiful experiences made for everyone. He combines aesthetic sensibility with insights, technological understanding and business sense.
With experience leading design projects across disciplines and companies, he believes the key ingredients to successful teams are a large scoop of humility & empathy mixed with diversity and a healthy work culture. Naturally with a sprinkle of fun & games on top.
Gabriel has built strategies and experiences for a broad range of platforms, including consumer electronics, mobile apps, web platforms, wearables, bicycles, and cars. He has worked with promising start-ups, established SMEs and world-leading Fortune 100’s —in more than 60 professional projects for 40+ clients.
In his career Gabriel has been honored to have his work published in Time Magazine, exhibited by the World Design Organization, and awarded by the IxDA, iF and others. He has also been fortunate to live and work in Sweden, Austria, The Netherlands, California, Germany, and Norway —experiencing lots of inspiring people, places, brands and studios.
When not designing, he loves to play with his son Leon, cook with friends, ride his bicycle, or create yet another Spotify playlist.
Experience
2021 Senior User Experience Designer — NoA Ignite, Oslo
2020 User Experience Designer — Above, Malmö
2019 Interaction Design Intern — Designworks, Munich
2018 Product Design Intern — Huge Design, San Francisco
2017 Product Designer — VanMoof, Amsterdam
2016 Product Design Intern — Philips, Amsterdam
2015 Product Design Intern — Zenit Design, Malmö
Education
2020 MFA Advanced Product Design — Umeå Institute of Design
2016 BFA Industrial Design — Umeå Institute of Design
2015 Exchange semester — FH Joanneum
Honors
2022 World Design Capital — Exhibitor
2022 Gulltaggen — Diploma
2022 Awwwards — Nominated
2020 IxD Award — Best Student Project
2020 IxD Award — Finalist, Disrupting
2020 iF Design Award
2019 Time Magazine — The 100 Best Inventions of 2019
2019 Core77 Design Award — Winner
2018 iF Design Talent Award — Best of the Year
2018 BraunPrize — Silver
2018 Formex — Exhibitor
2016 Semcon Design Days — Exhibitor