Anders Skovgaard Winther
Head of Design and Development

Anders Skovgaard Winther

Anders is a partner and part of the management team of Workz. As Head of Design and Development he manages our internal product development and leads our team of graphic designers and marketing professionals.

As a consultant Anders mainly works with strategy activation, learning experiences, and large scale events. He also has extensive experience in the design and development of dialogue tools and serious games.

Anders fundamentally approaches his job as an interaction designer. He has a keen eye for social interaction, user motivation, and process design that he uses to design concepts that are user-friendly, meaningful and effective.

Anders holds a BA in Medieval History from Copenhagen University, a Masters in Design, Communication and Media from the Copnehgan IT University and a brand new EMBA from Quantic University.

Before joining Workz in 2008, Anders worked at the Danish Broadcasting company (DR) as a concept developer and game designer and for Learning Lab Denmark as a serious games developer.

Anders has a background in the Danish roleplaying scene, where he was active for more than 20 years as a storyteller and game designer.

He lives in Jelling with his wife and their family of four kids (and a bunch of animals).

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