Runar Ovesen Hjerpbakk

Leadership, product and technology

Design (13)

Apps, games & projects

Scratch a Saying

App · iPhone, iPad

Scratch a Saying

Daily inspiration to share

Scratch away the foil to reveal one of more than 2,400 sayings. Save favorites, choose which categories go into the deck, and share each saying as a clean image card.

App Store
Golden Ratio Calculator Pro

App · iPhone, iPad Popular

Golden Ratio Calculator Pro

Aspect Ratio for Layouts

Know one side of a rectangle and want the other without doing the math? Type a width or height, pick from 12 ratios or save your own, and get the value right away. Or enter both sides to detect the ratio.

App Store
Norske barneleker

Website

Norske barneleker →

A Norwegian activity bank for children aged 2 to 12, with step-by-step games and activities filterable by age, place, time and equipment, for parents, kindergartens and after-school clubs. Built with Astro.

Website

Norske eventyr →

A digital collection of classic Norwegian folk tales by Asbjørnsen and Moe, organised in thematic collections and presented with inspiration from traditional folk art. Built with SvelteKit.

2026

Nei takk, jeg vil ikke spare penger

Talk · Sep 2026 · Ping 2026

Nei takk, jeg vil ikke spare penger

Talk for Ping 2026 about dark patterns, the design choices that make it cheap to say yes and expensive to say no. It goes through six patterns from Norwegian and international sites, from confirmshaming to drip pricing and fake scarcity, why each one works on the brain, what the DSA and GDPR say about them, and how a dark pattern gets born out of an A/B test and a quarterly target without anyone in the room doing anything wrong.

Produktutforskning nå som AI er nyttig

Talk · Aug 2026 · Bart.js

Produktutforskning nå som AI er nyttig

Talk for the Bart.js meetup in Trondheim about product discovery and what AI does to it. It covers why the wrong product gets built (the four risks, and teams that add features but never remove them), how opportunity solution trees, measurements and prototyping worked at three customers, and what changes now that prototypes are back and building is easy: the temptation to build too much instead of chasing the value.

Produktutforskning nå som AI er nyttig

Talk · Jun 2026 · Bekk, fagdag

Produktutforskning nå som AI er nyttig

Talk about product discovery now that AI has become genuinely useful, drawing on two real projects: a finance system at HENT and map tools at NGU. It shows how to validate hypotheses faster and get from idea to something testable quickly, using rough prototypes and small experiments against real data, so teams discuss less and decide based on something concrete.

2025

Talk · Feb 2025 · Bekk, fagdag for datavisualisering

Mørke datavisualiseringsmønstre

Talk for Bekk's data visualization group introducing dark patterns in data visualization and what designers should do instead.

2022

Talk · Oct 2022 · Bekk, fagdag for spillutvikling

UI i spill

Talk for Bekk's game development group about user interfaces and user experiences in games.

2018