26.Sep

Getting the Most Out of GitHub Copilot: A Practical Guide

Answers to frequently asked questions, highlights useful resources, and shares practical advice for making the most of Copilot in 2025.

06.May

How your app reach production

Learn about the basics, possibilities, and terminology in regards of "shipping to production" at Gjensidige.

26.Feb

Intro to Builders Core - our design system

Learn about our design system and how you can contribute to it.

16.Jul

Principles for automated testing

Automated testing for web applications can help catch errors before they happen, but they take time to create and maintain. Here's our guidelines to help you create a healthy test suit.

06.Jun

Finding our way towards more inclusive products

Your discipline leads are on a mission to building a culture of accessibility, helping teams gain the knowledge, confidence and practices they need to make it a natural part of their everyday workflow.

05.Jun

Get to know our interns

In August 2023, Gjensidige formed a unique internship team to develop a new proof of concept: An insurance game for small and medium-sized enterprises.

15.Feb

Get to know our design system – UX Norge (NO)

Kristian in Team Builders was recently interviewed by UX Norge to tell the story of Gjensidige's design system.

13.Feb

A travel letter from Denmark

With great experiences from the last residency and hunger for another, Team Builders sent three more team members to visit Private Sales Denmark.

13.Dec

Global Components API

If you want to use the navigation and footer, pre-rendered with content from the public pages - we offer APIs that can be used by your web application.

06.Dec

2023 wrapped

What a year! We celebrate by looking back and serving fresh stats for Gjensidige's websites the past year.

06.Nov

Mobile app development in Gjensidige

Making a mobile app is different from making a webpage in more ways than you might think.

25.Aug

Moving pages between environments

Did you build a masterpiece in your test environment that you'd like to show your users? You don't have to rebuild it – you can export and import any content between any environments on the platform.

23.Aug

Parts overview

Get an overview of all the available building blocks in Content Studio and get to know each of them by reading their guidelines.

17.Aug

Conversational form design

At Gjensidige we use forms for many purposes – to tailor insurance offers or gather contact information. No matter the purpose, a form is a conversation.

11.Jul

Objectives and key results

'Objectives and key results' (OKR) is a way of organising work in a way that helps us reach our goals. Many of our teams make use of it, but it's no easy feat to make them work for you.

10.Jul

Team topologies: Product teams and platform teams

There are two main types of digital development teams: product teams and platform teams. This article describes the difference between these types of teams and how both of them make a difference in product development.

10.Jul

Team topologies: How ordinary people create extraordinary products

Building a team is not achieved overnight, it takes time to grow great solutions, and the same goes for relationships. 

19.Jun

A/B-testing using Layouts

In some contexts, that call to action really matters. To find out which of our suggestions works better, we use A/B-testing. Both versions are created on the same page in Content Studio.

11.May

Building team pages in Content Studio

Would you like to create or maintain a page for your team? We'll show you how!

20.Mar

System thinking, endurance and team culture

Understanding the design system as a concept is easy, but actually making it work requires effort. It isn't necessarily the system itself that's demanding, but all of the processes surrounding it sure are. The magic happens when people actually make use of the system.

12.Jan

Core 30 in code

Gjensidige got a new corporate identity (NCI for short) last year. Now is the time for all digital products to make the jump.

19.Dec

A year of growth in design

Let's celebrate our learnings, hard work, and dedication while building a culture of growth so that we can lead our design process with confidence.

09.Dec

2022 wrapped

Another year is coming to an end, and it's time to look back on how we've spent it.

06.Oct

Embedded applications

To improve user journeys across editorial webpages and applications, the Builders Platform allows you to embed small applications to any page in Content Studio.

29.Aug

Get started with Sonar

We're currently piloting a new tool for qualitative testing, Sonar. Get to know how it works and start testing it today!

29.Jun

Getting started with Figma

So you're moving to a new design tool! The Digital Sales team has been piloting Figma since November 2021 and they have some tips to get you started.

27.Jun

Status on Figma

We're so excited about moving to Figma, and thankfully, so are you! These are the latest news and what your team must do before Abstract closes in August.

21.Jun

Redesigning parts

Team Builders are currently updating all parts with the new corporate identity. This is how you'll be implementing the new identity to your website.

11.May

SEO Meta Fields

Optimise your content for search engines and add social sharing meta fields to your site through Enonic's own tool.

11.May

Rewrite Manager

Use the Rewrite Manager app in Enonic XP to create and maintain redirects for your site, outside of Content Studio.

28.Apr

Design Sprint

A design sprint is a 5-day process that helps answer business-critical questions through ideation, design and learning.

11.Apr

Even more claims are handled automatically

The solution "Skadehub" allows the Digital Claims team to fully automate collision cases with multiple involved parties – from crash to car repairs.

11.Mar

Meetings

Even if you’ve been working with us for a while, it can be challenging to wrap one's head around our meeting procedures. Let us introduce you to some types of meetings and what they're all about.

07.Jan

The Sales team's weekly mini-tests

While essential, it can be difficult to arrange usability tests frequently enough. See how the Digital Sales team gets help from customers to test their work every week.

14.Dec

Great efforts to prevent serious data attack

When most of us had left work last Friday, IT security and Gjensidige’s development teams were hard at work to protect us from one of the most serious data breaches in 10 years.

23.Nov

Creating an argument

In order to motivate users to buy insurance or use a service, we must use arguments. This is how you build one.

16.Nov

Get to know the Builders Platform

Our platform is a website builder as a service, providing us with everything we need to create and manage Gjensidige websites.

12.Nov

The editors' improvement secrets

How web editors in Gjensidige are working to keep our websites at peak performance.

04.Nov

Content model and structured data

Learn about our content model, content types and structured data used in parts.

28.Sep

Introducing Core 13 – the new generation core components

17.Aug

Improving your SEO work

Our colleagues in Marketing Denmark decided to lift their rankings on Google and were eager to work on their SEO. But where to begin?

05.Jul

Testing your content

Does the text answer the readers’ questions? Here’s a quick and easy method that lifts your work from “meh” to “yeah!”

30.Jun

How we made a digital advisor for companies in less than four months

We were asked to spend three months creating a digital insurance advisor for small businesses. In this article, we’ll share what we learnt.

25.Jun

Builders' most recent facelift

We're embracing summer with some changes, both visible (a brand new menu) and invisible (now running in the cloud on Kubernetes for the first time in Gjensidige's history). Let's dive into the details.

18.Jun

How do I use parts?

Read about how our parts work and how we plan to iterate and share with other teams.

16.Jun

Introduction to the design system

Learn about our design system and how you can use and contribute to it.

16.Jun

Why Gjensidige Builders?

A lot has happened since we decided to level up Gjensidige's design system in 2020. Our aim has always been to enable easy, quick and consistent development across all our digital efforts.

22.Mar

The core model

Are you designing new content or improving existing web pages? The core model helps you focus on user tasks, specify your goals and achieve truly user-centric content design.

16.Mar

Hosting digital workshops

While whiteboards, post-its and sharpies are gathering dust in our offices, we are still hosting workshops. We've gathered a few tips on facilitating digital workshops in our favourite digital whiteboard and collaboration tool, Miro.

05.Mar

Supported browsers

Our list of supported browsers and operating systems is the minimum requirement. The following list is supported for all components in our component library and should be supported for all applications – from all teams.

03.Feb

Local component libraries

All product teams may create their own component libraries with components tailored to their individual needs.

07.Oct

Core support

Ask us about feature requests, bug reports and everything else related to Builders Core.

21.Sep

Universal design through code

Developers have a particular responsibility for universal design. Here's what to consider, what to look for, and how to improve your apps accessibility through code.

18.Sep

Principles for building web applications

See the guiding principles that help us increase the overall quality of our digital solutions.

18.Sep

Colour combinations, contrasts, and more

Designers have to pay particular attention to how colours affect the way people use and understand our services.

18.Sep

Site performance

Eliminate guesswork and make better edits by keeping an eye on task completion, sales, accessibility scores and more.

18.Sep

Plain language

Plain language helps people find what they need, understand what they find, and use this information to complete their tasks.

18.Sep

Microcopy

Microcopy, also known as UX writing, is a critical genre to master when writing for the digital domain. In short, microcopy is the words that enable users to complete their tasks – and feel good about it.

18.Sep

Introduction to universal design

Universal design is about creating sites and services that are easy to use and navigate – for everyone.

18.Sep

Optimizing UX with digital analysis

When we create or optimize digital solutions we base our decisions on qualitative and quantitative data. This is how Gjensidige's analytics experts optimize the user experience.