Julia Frederking (DK)
Head of Design at Novo Nordisk
Previously Head of UX & Frontend Competency Center at Ørsted, where she also led DesignOps and design strategy
Based in Copenhagen, Denmark
Meet Julia at:
Boye Aarhus 26 conference
Track: Design Leadership
Presentation: TBD
Date: Thursday, November 5
About Julia Frederking
Julia is Head of Design at Novo Nordisk, where she has led design since June 2024. Her work spans design leadership, design strategy, design research and DesignOps, with a focus on using design to drive digital transformation in a global healthcare company.
Before Novo Nordisk, she spent more than four years at Ørsted. She joined as Lead Design Strategist in 2020, became DesignOps Lead and went on to head the UX & Frontend Competency Center in Denmark. Earlier, as Senior Designer and Design Lead at Laerdal Medical, she worked closely with product owners, medical doctors, learning specialists and software engineers on e-learning solutions for a global market.
Her expertise covers service design, design thinking, user experience, facilitation, customer experience and product management. She studied at Carnegie Mellon University.
About the Novo Nordisk
Novo Nordisk is a Danish global healthcare company founded in 1923 and headquartered in Bagsværd, near Copenhagen. It is a world leader in diabetes care and obesity treatment, and also works in rare blood disorders, growth hormone therapy and hormone replacement therapy.
Its medicines, including Ozempic and Wegovy, are marketed in around 170 countries, and the company employs tens of thousands of people worldwide. Novo Nordisk is controlled by the Novo Nordisk Foundation, one of the world’s largest charitable foundations.