Designer · UX, UI, Product and Service Design

Customer: Non-disclosed, maritime industry I was working as the product UI and UX designer in the UI team along with two developers. Key activities and outcomes: ● Building a design system in Figma from scratch ● Designing a unique look and feel for the products ● Reducing developer hand-over by participating in layout implementation with Unity ● Facilitating concept workshops ● Designing and shipping multiple features with the UI team ● Supporting developers during implementation ● Supporting marketing activities by designing marketing materials and brand merchandise.

I was responsible for the general layout design, including typography selections and the implementation of the final design. Some of my key activities: ● Wireframing and visual composition in Figma ● Technology selection ● Interaction design ● Implementation with Webflow ● The team had a UX writer and a motion graphics designer in addition to me, both who did a stellar job on their field of specialty and beyond.

Consultancy and hands-on work in UX, UI and Service Design. Specialty: facilitation (e.g Design Sprints, LSC and various other canvas methods), prototyping, research, front-end development capabilities. I held various roles as a consultant: Lead designer, senior designer, product designer, service designer, UX/user researcher, user interface designer. I worked with multiple clients, mainly large Finnish technology enterprises.

Design Circle Lead responsibilities & accomplishments: • Facilitating the design team operations • Knowledge sharing • Recruitment • Sales, sales support • Growth coaching. Role was made official in April but it began already in November 2020 as a deputy design lead.

Customer: VisitTeisko Collaboration with Antti Järvinen from Alupark Oy. Active Design phase: 10 working days. I was responsible of leading, facilitating and executing the design work of the project - Antti was responsible for overall project management and implementation. Here are some of my key activities: · Initial estimation and budgeting of the design work for the project · Scheduling and facilitating the co-creation workshops · Coaching the business owners into conducting customer interviews on their own for first hand insights · Designing the visual identity system and brand · Designing, building, iterating and validating an interactive prototype of the final service-to-be.

User Experience lead for Insta Response product family. Insta Response is a mission critical system used in Finnish emergency centers. Main tasks: evangelizing, mentoring and guiding UX, creating a style guide, user research and user testing. With help from my colleagues we were able to grow the maturity of UX work at Insta Response, as well as in the organization more widely. Insta Response was acquired by Cinia in 2020.

UI front end implementation for SmoothTeam using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Python.

Continuation of the Demola project with my own company: project assigned by Finnish Metals and Engineering Competence Cluster (FIMECC; currently known as DIMECC). Tasks: install software and hardware for a modern video conferencing system; design and implement a customized GUI for Lync using Lync SDK, C# and XAML; perform background research of 3D-printing technologies and service providers.

Working as a summer employee at Demola in a project assigned by Finnish Metals and Engineering Competence Cluster (FIMECC; currently known as DIMECC). Tasks: install software and hardware for a modern video conferencing system; design and implement a customized GUI for Lync using Lync SDK, C# and XAML; perform background research of 3D-printing technologies and service providers. I learned a good deal about the impact of facilitation, storytelling and lean, cross-functional teams and took that knowledge to my heart.

CoSMo project, department of Pervasive Computing, unit of Human-Centered Technology (IHTE). Main tasks: conducting / assisting in user studies/interviews, transcribing audio recordings and videos, contributing to the reporting of the results of the user studies, heuristic evaluation of unit's web-pages and updating of the unit's web-pages.

Main tasks: was programming the facial recognition algorithm with C++ in Qt environment, modifying data to be in more suitable format. The goal of the project I was in was to gather statistical data from face recognition images.

Main tasks: creating databases, testing face recognition software and studying and reporting summaries of scientific articles.

Working as a research assistant in GoFASE project, TauChi unit. Literature research, face recognition algorithm training by image annotation, data preparation for the algorithm. Primary working language: English.