Hi! I’m Oscar — a product designer
 working on systems and interaction between people and software.
Sounds like fun? Let’s chat —
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  • Minecraft
  • Speaking & Research
  • YouTube Music
  • Side Projects
I love creating functional, sustainable and deeply human technology products for a post-digital era.

In my design approach I tend to include research, interactive prototypes and close engineering collaboration for pragmatic outcomes that stresses the details.

I thrive when following a technology and business case all the way through to a delightful user experience.

On this page I've collected a selection of my work.

Since 2017 I've been designing UX for Minecraft
while growing the team.

Description
How do you grow a design organization for the world's biggest game?
With more than 100M players around the world on all imaginable platforms, we grew a design and UI engineering team and that honored the expressive qualities of the historic game.
Year
2017 – 2020
Role
Product Design, Design Systems and Design Organization

I’m speaking & leading workshops in prototyping
 and collaboration
methods, based on research work from my M.Sc thesis

Description
In design school I completed a M.Sc thesis on prototyping methods for interaction designers. Since then I have applied my framework in teaching design students and professionals.
Year
2017 –
Role
Research, Speaking, Design Workshops

Speaking

I love to teach and to share thoughts from working as a designer. Recently my talks focuses on prototyping methods and collaboration between designers and engineers.

I also run workshops with teams to help grow a deeper understanding of design processes, tools and collaboration.

A few of my recent talks:

→ Hyper Island, Design Lead Class
→ Dribbble Meetup, Bontouch 2019
→ UXDX Conference, Stockholm 2018

25 Principles

The outcome of my thesis research was a card deck with 25 techniques for improving prototyping and the surrounding design process.

The deck was developed through workshops with design teams in Stockholm, together with extensive prototyping work for Minecraft where I designed interactions for the game in tools such as Framer and Origami Studio.

Previously, I did engineering at YouTube Music
 and UI/UX at BandPage
 (acquired by Google)

Description
BandPage was a music software startup that enabled 500K+ artists to manage their data on the major music streaming services. The product required complex UIs for data management, and a precise marketing site.
Year
2015 – 2016
Role
UI design, React UI Engineering

Marketing site

Working with our design director, I redesigned the BandPage marketing site with new visual design, updated value propositions and a new onboarding flow.

This helped us as the startup's audience shifted within the music management industry. What once was a fan-serving product for indie musicians grew to serve labels and managers as the apps grew more popular for established artists.

Designing and building data tools

One of our big challenges was to enable artists to have control over what data was distributed across the BandPage network.

Fast, clear and communicative interfaces for data tools was crucial to enhance our artist profile data before it got distributed into our partner network, and used in very different contexts.

BandPage Editor

I also contributed with design and UI engineering for the BandPage web editor to improve the usability and visual presentation.

This was our main UI used by either artists themselves, managers or record labels.

Other projects include woodworking
, VR/AR prototyping
 and Interactive experiments

Description
I love to experiment with new tools and technology. In some cases it takes the form of a physical product, such as the Pixel lamp, a recent woodworking and electronics project.
Year
2012 –
Role
Design, research, engineering

Figma Community: Device Outlines

Open source vector outlines of devices and input hardware for consoles and gaming platforms.

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Generative Design

I'm currently building Figma plugins for generative art and design

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Pinterest Collections

Every month I'm posting my latest moodboard on Twitter.

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3D experiments

I've recently picked up 3D modelling for a recent cabin renovation project.

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Origami: Interaction starters

Starter kits for trying out prototyping with high-fidelity interactivity in Origami Studio.

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Pixel Light

Building a minimal, LED-lit light surface for mood lighting.

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Signals

Research project that prototyped street indicators for autonomous vehicles.

Dashboard Avatars

Exploring social interaction for drivers using VR prototypes and driving simulators.

Figma Community: Device Outlines

Open source vector outlines of devices and input hardware for consoles and gaming platforms.

Download →

Generative Design

I'm currently exploring making Figma plugins for generative art and design

Updates →

Pinterest Collections

Every month I'm posting my latest moodboard on Twitter.

Follow along on Pinterest →

3D experiments

I've recently picked up 3D modelling for a recent cabin renovation project.

Updates →

Pixel Light

Building a minimal, LED-lit light surface for mood lighting.

Read more →

Origami: Interaction starters

Starter kits for trying out prototyping with high-fidelity interactivity in Origami Studio.

Download →

Signals

Prototyping street indicators for autonomous vehicles.

Dashboard Avatars

Exploring social interaction for drivers using VR prototypes and driving simulators.

Thanks for taking a look. Want to share thoughts, work with me or just be internet friends?

I’d love to hear from you.

Emailoscareriknilsson@gmail.com
Twitter@oscrse
Instagram@oscrse
Pinterest/oscrse
Dribbble/oscrse

Oscar Nilsson is a product designer currently working with Minecraft in Stockholm. When not working he's also into photography, forests and hanging out with his poodle.

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