As the Interim Lead UI/UX Designer for the City of Helsinki, I played a pivotal role in adapting and conveying the city's brand identity into the digital realm, focusing on the UI and UX functions for the new hel.fi website. This role required me to lead and direct the UI/UX design team, tasked with translating the city's traditional print-based identity into an intuitive, engaging, and accessible digital interface. We aimed to create a digital experience that encapsulated the spirit of Helsinki, offering a seamless bridge to city information and services for residents, visitors, and businesses. I also contributed a lot for Helsinki Design System -  a coherent, scalable design framework that now serves as the backbone of the city's digital interfaces. This framework ensures consistency, fosters usability, and embodies the city's identity across all digital touchpoints. By working in close collaboration with developers, citizens and stakeholders, we ensured that every aspect of the user

Interim Lead UI/UX Designer at City of Helsinki

At Kuudes I spent my days making sense of our clients’ business challenges and turning my understanding into great designs. I facilitated ways of working between the client and the team, helping our clients evolve the way they work along the way. My superpower is asking the right questions to understand both the client’s position and their users’ problems, and coming up with solutions that benefit both.

Senior Digital Designer

In this role, my main focus has been in web UI&UX design and leading website projects from concept level to component design. I’ve gained also experience in facilitating workshops, doing user interviews and testing real-time prototypes with the end-users. In addition, as I really enjoy the more technical side of design I’ve been very interested in closing the gap between tech and design and searched the way to streamline our workflow ie. by incorporating atomic design system to leverage our designs.

Digital Designer

My role was all about knowing how to get the team where we were going.  Being the hub of knowledge for a project; managing the expectations, resolving issues and seeing the big picture. Occasionally also wiping the tears and taking out the trash. It was a complex role which required an unique skill set. There was an overlap between digital project management and account management, QA, User Experience, and Business Analysis. Not to mention strategy, SEO or analytics. Plus having a background in design meant that I knew enough about HTML to be dangerous – at least be able to make a few sneaky text edits while no one was looking.

Digital Project & Account Manager

As an Interim Design Lead at Otava Learning, I had the privilege of contributing to the design and development process of their online learning solutions. My role primarily involved providing interim leadership of the design vision, ensuring alignment of our design strategy with the company's mission to enhance learning through digital platforms. I collaborated closely with different teams, including product management, publishing editors, and development to deliver products that are not only visually pleasing but also intuitively easy to navigate. I was involved in shaping user interface design, user experience, branding and visual aesthetics, always placing the learner at the center of the design process. During my tenure, I ensured that all design outputs adhered to high standards and best practices. It was my responsibility to help the design team to become agile, efficient, and productive in delivering their work. This role allowed me to exercise my leadership skills, along with m

Interim Design Lead at Otava Learning

I'm a designer, not a decorator. A product builder, not a picture maker. A shipper, not a prototyper. There's plenty of the latter, but if you're after the former, then we could have a chat. I speak fluent user, engineer, and business, bringing these worlds together seamlessly. I believe that product development now requires synthesis across disciplines by builders who can work across the entire stack. So, along with having great visual taste and sensibilities, I write production-quality code across the stack, with the help of Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Cursor.

Independent Design Partner

In my role as Principal Designer, I lead the overall design vision for Otava Learning’s online learning platform. My work involves crafting a user-centric design, focusing on creating an intuitive and effective learning experience that is both engaging and accessible to all. As part of a dedicated team, I work at the intersection of design and technology to transform our approach to education. Drawing on the high standards of the dynamic landscape of the publishing industry, I strive to create a platform that is not just functional, but also enjoyable to use and adds value to the learning journey of each individual user. Through my work, I aim to contribute to the advancement of Edtech solutions and champion the importance of good design in facilitating improved learning outcomes. #EdTech #OnlineLearning #Design #Publishing

Principal Designer

As a Head of Concert Services I learned how to work well under pressure in a fast paced environment. I developed good organizational skills, as I had a lot of responsibilities and time management was crucial. I alloted my time between different activitites including training employees, maintaining customer service standards and meeting my unit's revenue, profitability and quality goals.

Head of Concert Services

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