Hello! I’m a Copenhagen-based interaction designer working at Manyone.

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With an interest to design in-between virtual and physical spaces, I love to explore how we can experience and understand our world anew through design and technology. My work is often done with a focus on aesthetic, speculative and bold expressions, and I work with a lot of mediums, ranging from web to physical installations. Besides that, I feel comfortable with a camera in my hand.

I find myself caught in the middle of a pragmatic and artistic mindset, where I synthesize new ideas and designs, through prototyping and research. I enjoy experimenting with modern technologies and treat them as design materials to generate and realize ideas. However, as technology and culture is entwined I find it essential to reflect this in a design process. I believe in close collaboration with users and other stakeholders, where qualitative user research is used to inspire, inform and qualify design decisions and transform insights into meaningful experiences.

Contact

Tore Knudsden
toreknudsn@gmail.com

Experience

Manyone
Senior UX Designer
2024 - present

Noodl.net
Lead Designer
2020 - 2023

Topp Design & Innovation
UX Designer
2019 - 2020

Practio
Digital Designer
2016 - 2018

Mental Act Studio
Digital Design & Photographer
2011 - 2012

Education

Malmö Högskola K3
Masters of Interaction Design
2016 – 2018

IT-University of Copenhagen
Bachelor of Digital Media & Design
2013 – 2016

Vejle Technical Gymnasium
IT & Communication
2009 – 2012

Awards &
Nominations

STARTS Prize Ars Electronica, 2019
Winner of Grand Prize – Artistic Exploration with Project Alias

IxD Awards Winner, 2019
Digital Body Language wins best in category Expressing

Fast company: World change ideas, 2019 
Finalist in student category with Project Alias

Fast Company: Innovation By Design, 2018
Honorable mention with Pour Reception

HACK4GIRLS, 2017
Nominated with Pod4Girls

Exhibtions

School of Future, Tokyo 2020
Exhibition of Project Alias at School of Future Festival


Hyundai Motor Museum, Beijing 2019
Exhibition of Project Alias as part of Humand (un)limited

Design Society, Shenzen 2019
Project Alias part of 40 Years of Humanizing Technology

Ars Electronica Festival, Linz 2019
Exhibit of Project Alias

German Spy Museum, Berlin 2019
Screening of Project Alias

NordiCHI, Oslo 2018
Exhibition of Digital Body Language

The Conference, Malmö 2018
Exhibition of Pour Reception

Push Conference, Munich 2018
Exhibition of Digital Body Language

CLICK Festival, Helsingør 2018
Exhibition of Pour Reception

TrailerPark Festival,  Copenhagen 2016
Exhibition of CopenhagenAir

Talks &
Lectures

Hyper Island, Karlskrona 2021
Exponential Technologies for UX Design programme

KADK, Copenhagen 2020
Artist talk on Interaction design

Hyper Island, Karlskrona 2020
Exponential Technologies for UX Design programme

UBX Conference, Munich 2019
Talk around Project Alias

NordiCHI, Oslo 2018
Exhibition of Digital Body Language

Privacy Online -Human & Legal Solutions, Copenhagen 2019
Talk and Panel discussion

Service Design Network,  Copenhagen 2019
Designing for the invisible interface

Processing Community Day,
Copenhagen 2019
Lightning talk with Victor Permild

IoT Week, Århus 2019
STARTS Talk on Human Touch AI

CLICK Festival, Helsingør 2018
Exhibition of Pour Reception

Coldfront Community Day, Copenhagen 2018
Talk at GDG Meetup: Machine learning as a design tool

Selected
Press

Fobes, Jan 2019
Stop Google And Amazon Speakers From Eavesdropping With This Brilliant DIY Device

Yanko Design, Jan 2019
This little speaker-cap hacks your smart speaker to give you back your privacy

Spiegel Online, Jan 2019
Dieses Bastelset soll vor Lauschangriffen schützen

The Verge, Jan 2019
This project hacks Amazon Echo and Google Home to protect your privacy

Digital Trends, Jan 2019
Project Alias is a ‘smart parasite’ that stops smart speakers from listening

Politiken, Feb 2019
Når tech-giganterne ikke skal lytte med: Bjørn og Tore har opfundet en Google-parasit

Gizmodo, Jan 2019
Project Alias is a Weird 'Parasite' That Gloms Onto Alexa to Increase Privacy

Fast Company, Jan 2019
This is the first truly great Amazon Alexa and Google Home hack

Fast Company, Feb 2018

Stand Aside, Alexa And Siri: You Control This Stereo With Water

Resumé, Oct 2018
Radio på vattenvågor - Article about Pour Reception

CreativeApplication, Feb 2018
Pour Reception – Water as a digital (material) interface

Arduino Blog, Aug 2017

PHYSICALLY MIX DIGITAL COLORS WITH COLORWISE

HACKADAY, Aug 2017
Colorwise - A hypnotizing interactive art piece for visualizing color theory