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Checklist for new designers

Welcome to Gjensidige! All that new information can be overwhelming, so we've tried to gather everything in one place.

About Gjensidige

The first step of your onboarding is to learn who we are as a company and how we want our digital solutions to represent us.

These articles and will tell you what you need to know:

  1. Gjensidige's strategies
  2. Core values
  3. The Gjensidige Experience
  4. Brand and profile
  5. Visual identity

Your onboarding process

  • Your team leader will introduce you to your team, department and specific tasks
  • You'll learn all about Gjensidige on various onboarding activities along with other freshmen
  • Your department will introduce you to the design community and how we work with brand, design systems and user experience.

All about our brand identity

You'll find everything you need to know about our profile and identity in the brand center. Browse guidelines and download assets to help you create holistic designs that look and sound like Gjensidige.

Our visual identity

Consistent use of colours, a realistic photo manner and bold use of typography – this is what makes us look and feel like Gjensidige:

Principles and assets

Check out the documentation in Core to ensure holistic and consistent user experiences across all of our domains and solutions:

Workflow and methods

Now that you know who we are and what we want to achieve, it's time to find out how we work together:

  1. Introduction to the design system
  2. Using local component libraries
  3. Our design process
  4. Our design principles
  5. Usability testing
  6. Digital analysis in Gjensidige
  7. Join our bi-weekly design forum, "How Might We"

Creating quality designs

Recommended reading

Nielsen Norman Group defines 5 principles of visual design that impact UX: Scale, hierarchy, balance, contrast and gestalt.

This is what you need to plan and design brilliant user interfaces and experiences:

  1. Using design components
  2. Using design tokens
  3. Brand identity
  4. Contributing to the design system
  5. Universal design for designers

Tools we use

As a designer in Gjensidige, there are several tools that are part of your daily workflow. These are your most important ones:

Figma
We use Figma for any design and documentation tasks. Use it to create new designs, contribute to Core, comment on and discuss sketches, create clickable prototypes and keep everyone up to speed with your newest iterations.

Miro
We use this digital whiteboard tool for everything from meeting agendas and workshops to brainstorming and creative collaboration. Visit our Miro hub to learn more.

All tools
Ask your team leader or manager to access new tools

Design in Gjensidige

A dedicated space for all design disciplines, with the style guides, tools and methods you need in order to create extraordinary user experiences.

Builders Forum

Builders Forum is a weekly meeting point where you and your team can get practical help from our developers, designers and content experts.

How might we [...] together

How might we [...] together is a bi-weekly community forum focused on design, concept, creativity, best practice, design process, and visibility.