New times for Ocean

2021-01-01

Ocean's journey is taking a new chapter as our sister company needs our competence in healthcare and service design – that is right, we have moved to a product company!Go to article

Elsa Science, once born in our haven, gets the first investment from Norrsken’s new fund

2020-01-20

The VC part of Norrsken makes their first investment from the new fund in our “sister company” Elsa Science!! Elsa Science was founded by support from us and Sofia Svanteson, and we are thrilled to see the company surge ahead in digital health - guided by design of course.Go to article

Sökes: Deltagare till projekt om hudcancer

2020-01-08

Vi gör just nu ett projekt kring patientens upplevelse av hudcancer – alla tankar, känslor och kontakter etc - med syfte att förstå hur upplevelsen kan förbättras. Fokus är framför allt kring resan efter diagnos, kontakt/kommunikation med vården och behandling. Skulle du kunna tänka dig att ställa upp? Go to article

The attention economy - the issue and what we can do about it

2019-11-24

We are joining the ‘Attention economy’ track around the attention economy at Internetdagarna (organised by TWS) to talk about the topics that triggered the Time Well Spent movement – attention economics, the “free” business model and technology that seems to work us rather than work for us. Go to article

Electrolux uses QuizRR for social sustainability

2019-04-02

In their latest Sustainability Report, Electrolux tells the story of how the platform is used to to improve understanding of good workplace practice. The tool is designed to be a playful and engaging learning experience – an excellent example of using tech and design to meet human needs and change behaviours. Thanks QuizRR for doing amazing stuff and being an awesome client. Go to article

Talk takeaways: designing better products

2019-01-25

Two of our Oceanites ran a session on building better products with human-centric design over Norrsken House this week. The talk focused on gathering insights that have significance to your work and exploring how to prototype ideas at the right level. Go to article

Hurmårdu.nu wins Quality Innovation Award 2018!

2018-11-22

Hurmårdu.nu wins yet another award! This time the Quality Innovation Awardfrom SIQ in the category Social & Healthcare. The judges' reasoning put an emphasis on co-creation with the end-users which has resultet in an accessible as well as efficient and improved way of meeting peoples' needs and providing care in a communicative fashion. Go to article

Come listen and speak to Ocean & Elsa in Almedalen

2018-06-26

Almedalsveckan is Sweden’s power players’ week and we are running two seminars where we debate digitalisation and mental health among the young people and what effect patient driven selfcare can have on healthcare and scientific research. This is pretty much a Swedish only happening, so this message will now follow in Swedish (so sorry our non-speaking Swedish friends!)Go to article

Hurmårdu.nu wins award for being a pioneer in healthcare!

2018-06-12

The service that provides a new way for teens to seek help for mental illness was given the award Guldskalpellen as Pioneer of the year by Dagens Medicin! The award was handed out at today’s digital healthcare conference and was motivated by the design—created by including the users in the process and communicating in their language. Go to article

Ocean’s founder has written a chapter for an anthology of the future of healthcare, launched in Sweden today.

2018-05-28

An anthology of the future of healthcare in Sweden was launched today! Our founder Sofia Svanteson has written a chapter on design thinking as an approach to detect and investigate opportunities for meaningful change in healthcare.Go to article

Bill Gates is mesmerized by Dollarstreet from Gapminder, with UX design by Ocean!

2018-05-09

This just in! Bill raves about Dollar Street on his blog. The service was created by Anna Rosling Rönnlund and Ocean has been a proud collaborator on the UX design of the site.Go to article

QuizRR, our EdTech client since 2014, is being funded by Swedish Norrsken Foundation and American Working Capital Fund

2018-04-13

We are thrilled to see that our long-term and much cherished client QuizRR, a Swedish EdTech startup, is being funded by Norrsken Foundation and the Working Capital Fund.Go to article

Ocean gets 50% of nominations in the service design category of Design S!

2018-03-28

Wow! Our work with Öppna Dörren and hurmårdu.nu have already been so rewarding for us, working with fantastic people and great causes. But now these initiatives and services are also getting some recognition in the design world, being nominated in the service design category in the Swedish Design S awards.Go to article

We are now proud members of Time Well Spent Sweden

2017-12-15

Have you ever gone online to quickly check your Facebook, and then suddenly realized you’ve spent a whole hour? Most of us have noticed that screens can take up too much of our time, and the sneaky part is that many services are optimized to make us stay as long as possible, not always with our best in mind.Go to article

A new way for teens to seek help for mental illness is about to be launched

2017-12-11

We are proud and happy to have been collaborating with Experio Lab, Värmlands läns landsting and Första Linjen on hurmårdu.nu, a new digital service that aims at making it less stigmatized and troublesome to get in contact with mental care.Go to article