Sigrid Halvorsen

Minimalist Designer

Less is more.

I solve problems through simplicity. Designer, developer, and consultant with a focus on removing the unnecessary to reveal what matters. Less noise, more signal.

I own exactly 33 items of clothing

My desk has nothing on it except my laptop

I deleted all social media in 2022

My favorite design principle: when in doubt, remove

Independent Designer

Self-Employed

Mar 2019 — Present · Remote

Partner directly with founders and product teams to simplify interfaces and ship clean, considered design. Each engagement starts by removing before adding.

Design Strategy Development

Senior Product Designer

Calm Software

Jun 2016 — Feb 2019 · Copenhagen

Led the redesign of the core product, cutting the onboarding flow from eleven steps to four and reducing support tickets by 60%.

UI Design Design Systems

Product Designer

Mono Studio

Aug 2014 — May 2016 · Berlin

Designed and front-end built marketing sites and product interfaces for early-stage clients, establishing a shared, restraint-first visual language.

Web Branding

Ledger — Fintech Design System

A unified design system for a consumer banking app. Tokenized color, type, and spacing, 80+ accessible components, and clear usage docs that cut design-to-dev handoff time in half.

Figma Design Tokens Auto Layout WCAG AA

Margin — Editorial Brand Identity

Brand identity and visual system for an independent literary magazine. A custom wordmark, restrained editorial type scale, and a flexible grid that holds long-form reading together across print and web.

Brand Identity Typography Editorial Design Adobe InDesign

Clearwater — Product Redesign

An end-to-end redesign of a project-tracking dashboard. Reframed the information hierarchy around a single primary action, trimming the core workflow from eleven steps to four and lifting task completion by 38%.

UX Research Figma Prototyping Usability Testing

Quiet — AI Help Assistant

A restrained support assistant for a documentation site. Grounded an LLM in the product docs with retrieval (RAG) so answers stay accurate and cite their source, designed to say "I do not know" rather than guess. Deflected 45% of routine tickets without adding noise to the interface.

LLM RAG Vector Search Prompt Design

60+ Projects

8 Years

40+ Clients

99% Client Satisfaction

Consulting

Strategic guidance on technology, design, and product decisions. Clear thinking and actionable recommendations.

Design

Clean, purposeful design. Interfaces that are intuitive and beautiful without unnecessary complexity.

Development

Well-crafted code. Performant, accessible, and maintainable web applications.

Generative AI for Designers

DeepLearning.AI 2025

Let's keep it simple.

Have a project that needs clarity? Tell me what you are building and I will reply within two business days.

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