Ruth Hjertmann Christiansen
- Master of Science in Engineering Psychology -

Employment

Customer Validation Lead, Bang & Olufsen
Sep 2021 - Oct 2023

As a Customer Validation Lead at Bang & Olufsen I worked on validation the user experience during the development process. This involved:

  • Understanding design intent by communication with designers
  • Facilitate in person and remote user tests to validate customers experience
  • Analyze qualitative and quantitative data to center development around the customers
  • Communicate User Experience across stakeholders
  • Support designers and developers with data from customers

Collaborate for user centred design
Collaborate for user centred design
Student Developer, InLogic
Jan 2020 - May 2020

At my 9th semester I was an intern at InLogic. During my 10th semester I continued working at InLogic. Here I worked on developing Studi.ly by:

  • User testing the system
  • Creating mock-ups of the system
  • Having the overall view of the system and its interface to other systems
  • Ensure high quality of the system focusing on UX and UI
  • Prioritize features in the backlog
  • Maintain the connection between an outsourced developing team and InLogic eg. by facilitating sprint planning and sprint review
  • Plan 14-days sprints by describing features, user stories, and bugs in Azure DevOps
  • Develop a design guideline for the programmers

Technical skills

Human factor methods
Statistical hypothesis testing
Workshops
Observing user behavior
Interviews
Expert evaluation
Project mangement
Azure DevOps Jira
Data analysis
R and RStudio
Matlab
Frequentist statistics
Multidimensional analysis
Visual tools
Inkscape and Gimp
Draw.io
AdobeXD
Programming
Latex
HTML5
CSS
Jquary
Axure
Arduino
Processing
Cand.polyt in Engineering Psychology

Education

September 2015 - June 2020
Master of Science in Engineering Psychology, The Technical Faculty of IT and Design, Aalborg University

My education have made me equipped to do user centred design. I am cable of taking cognitive psychology, human perception, ergonomics, and experimental psychology into account when designing. Some of my competences are:

  • Broad knowledge of psychological theories and applications of these
  • Knowledge and experience with methods for collecting data about a product and the user's perception of the product
  • Knowledge and experience in analysing both qualitative and quantitative data
  • Assess theoretical and practical problems and find optimal solutions tied in scientific methods
  • Designing prototypes in the form of mock-ups, programming and wireframing
  • Extensive knowledge of and experience in the use of statistical analysis methods
These competences enables me to help you optimise your product.
2025 Ruth Hjertmann Christiansen