Curriculum vitae
Sofi Tagesson
Content designer and UX writer based in Malmö, Sweden. 10+ years of professional writing experience across digital products, journalism and communications.
01 / Experience
- Feb 2026 – May 2026
UX Writing Consultant · Ikano Bank (via Hammer & Hanborg)
Sweden
- Consulting UX Writer hired to shape a new product for a future release
- Created in-product copy and did extensive information mapping to improve structure and the overall user experience
- Worked with a UX designer to restructure key flows, reducing friction and removing overwhelming moments for users
- 2023 – 2025
UX Writer · LeoVegas Group
Sweden
- Sole UX Writer for 9 brands across 10 markets, including LeoVegas, BetMGM, Expekt, BetUK and GoGo Casino
- Created English in-product copy for all brands, and some Swedish copy when needed
- Collaborated with 20+ discovery and delivery designers – continuous work on the sign-up flow led to a 20% increase in sign-ups over two years
- Built and maintained style guides, glossaries and writing guidelines to keep voice and terminology consistent across brands
- 2022
UX Writer · SPLIT Agency
Stockholm
- Consultant UX Writer at SPLIT, an agency in Stockholm
- Mainly in-house work improving the content design of the agency's own website
- 2021 – 2022
UX Writer · Svea
Stockholm
- Focused on Svea Apps and the services around them, including the new Svea Pay payments app
- Worked on Svea's payments and menu solutions for restaurants, and on the Arlanda Express train experience
- Designed and improved user flows in Swedish and English, creating clear, low-friction experiences as part of cross-functional design teams
- Wrote UX writing principles, tone-of-voice guidelines and glossaries
- 2021 – 2022
UX Writer (part-time) · Advinans (now part of Nordea)
Stockholm
- Freelanced part-time for Advinans, a company that manages pensions and personal savings across funds and stocks
- Did UX writing across their flows and rewrote and restructured longer texts for the website and member pages when needed
- Wrote in both Swedish and English
- 2019 – 2020
Digital Copy & Content Specialist · SAS – Scandinavian Airlines
Stockholm
- English copywriter and content specialist at Scandinavian Airlines
- Owned copy for the information pages on the website, as well as inspirational texts for destinations
- Wrote UX copy and microcopy, all adapted to the SAS tone of voice, target group and channel
- Jan 2018 – Aug 2018
Reporter & Editor · Lokaltidningen Mitt i
Stockholm
- Temporary position as reporter and editor at the local weekly newspaper Mitt i Västerort
- Monitored local news, reported, photographed, edited, presented and published across the site and social media
- Feb 2017 – Dec 2017
Digital Communications Officer · Lärarförbundet (The Swedish Teachers' Union)
Stockholm
- Temporary position as communications officer at the teachers' union
- Daily work on the website and social media – writing, publishing and moderating comments
- Ran paid social campaigns, measured results, created newsletters and led communications planning for projects and campaigns
02 / Skills
- UX writing
- Content design
- Information architecture
- Style guides & glossaries
- Tone of voice
- Microcopy
- Localisation-aware writing
- User research collaboration
- Plain-language editing
- Accessible copy
03 / Tools
- Figma
- XD
- Jira
- Phrase
- Office Suite
- Google Workspace
- Escenic
- Polopoly
- AEM
- Drupal
- WordPress
04 / Languages
- SwedishNative
- EnglishFluent – professional working language
05 / Background & learning
- Ongoing
Conversation Design – Conversation Design Institute
Currently studying to broaden my content design skill set into conversation design
- Mar 2022
Klarspråk och tillgänglighet – Funka
Half-day course in plain language and accessibility
- May 2021
SEO – Webbdagarna Academy
One-day course in search engine optimisation
- 2020
Content Strategy for Professionals – Coursera
September–November 2020
- Sep 2020
UX Writing – Berghs School of Communication
Stockholm
- 2019
Build Your First Website – Tjejer Kodar
Introductory web development course
- 2017
Digital Communication – Berghs School of Communication
Stockholm
- 2007 – 2008
Journalism Program for Academics – Mittuniversitetet
Sundsvall
- 2003
Förlagskunskap (Book Publishing) – Stockholms universitet
Stockholm
- 2002
Litteraturvetenskap (Literature) – Göteborgs universitet
Gothenburg
- 2002
Svenska och nordiska språk – Göteborgs universitet
Swedish and Nordic languages, Gothenburg
- 2000 – 2001
Etnologi (Ethnology) – Högskolan på Gotland
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