Web strategist and user experience consultant
Stockholm Area, Sweden
- Current
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- Web strategist at XLENT
- Past
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- Web strategist and usability consultant at Lumano
- Usability consultant at IT Management
- Web Communications Consultant at Ericsson Business Consulting
- Web designer and developer at Ericsson Data
- Information Officer at Stockholms studenters if (idrottsförening)
- Information Officer at Stockholms universitets studentkår
- Education
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- Stockholms universitet
- Högskolan i Jönköping
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Per Axbom’s Summary
Senior consultant and web strategist, specializing in usability, searchability, information architecture, evaluations and user experience design.
Experienced in working with information and design issues for websites, intranets and web-based applications for a large number of Swedish and international organizations.
I am also an experienced speaker; I give seminars and regularly write essays and articles. My motivation is to create opportunities for all people to understand and use information, regardless of their conditions.
Per Axbom’s Specialties:
Usability, accessibility, web standards, information architecture, evaluations, user-centered design, user experience design, open source, portals, content management, blogs (blogging), web trends, web strategy, searchability, search engine optimization, search marketing, Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
Per Axbom’s Experience
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Web strategist
XLENT
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
September 2006 — Present (1 year 9 months)
Core competence within the area of user experience, usability and accessibilty. Strategic advisor within portal and web development as well as web content management. Client support within web guidelines, training, evaluation of suppliers and anything else that falls into the laps of website owners.
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Web strategist and usability consultant
Lumano
(Internet industry)
November 2000 — September 2006 (5 years 11 months)
Part in building the business. Representative at User Interface East in Cambridge, October 2002. Seminar responsibilities, hosting seminars. Company profile responsibilities.
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Usability consultant
IT Management
(Internet industry)
March 2000 — October 2000 (8 months)
Key role in establishing the business area for usability.
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Web Communications Consultant
Ericsson Business Consulting
(Public Company; Telecommunications industry)
January 1999 — March 2000 (1 year 3 months)
Responsible for Eriweb – web-based knowledge centre for web editors. Representantive at Ericsson's web conference in Dublin, 2000.
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Web designer and developer
Ericsson Data
(Public Company; Telecommunications industry)
January 1998 — January 1999 (1 year 1 month)
Key role in boosting profitability through new service processes. I was a representantive at the Builder.com conference in New Orleans, 1998.
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Information Officer
Stockholms studenters if (idrottsförening)
(Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)
July 1996 — January 1998 (1 year 7 months)
The sports club for university/college students in Stockholm.
- Marketing and PR Material (presentations, poster design...)
- Responsible for the sports catalog distributed to all college/university students in Stockholm (a circulation of 60, 000)
- Developed the organisation's first web site. -
Information Officer
Stockholms universitets studentkår
(Higher Education industry)
July 1995 — June 1996 (1 year)
- Set up new guidelines for distribution of information on campus.
Per Axbom’s Education
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Stockholms universitet
Criminology 1995 — 1995
- Activities and Societies:
- - Part in starting up, design responsible for, and member of, editorial committee of culture magazine Känguru with a circulation of 12,000 (Published by Humanistiska föreningen, the Humanities faculty)
- Klubbmästeriet, Pubchef - Responsible for team leadership of a pub team at the university pub and active in event management within the same organisation
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Högskolan i Jönköping
BA, Communication Science, 1992 — 1995
- Activities and Societies:
- Involved in producing and writing for the school paper: Kårsordet
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- Chairman of the board of directors for my tenant-owner's association
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Web Standards Design + Development member
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