Work experience
Founder, Lead Designer at Timespace Cloud
April 2017—
UX/UI design, strategic design, front end development and brand design
for Timespace for various apps including Focus and OurBalance.
- Sketch
- Photoshop
- InDesign
- Illustrator
- JavaScript
Designer & Developer at Nemesol
May 2007—Mar 2018
Lead UX/UI designer and visual designer, front end developer
- Sketch
- Photoshop
- InDesign
- Illustrator
- JavaScript / Dojo
Graphic Design Intern at BOTH
March 2014—July 2014
Graphic design for web and print, front end development.
- InDesign
- Photoshop
- Wordpress / PHP
- jQuery
Freelancer / Consultant
July 2010—
Front end development, Visual design and UI design.
Selected projects
Front end development
AppGyver, 2019-2020
Front end development and UX wireframing for AppGyver's no-code platform, Composer Pro.
Worked with the in-house team of developers and lead designer to deliver pixel-perfect implementations of UI designs.
- Sketch
- JavaScript
- React
- Angular
Website and event registration interface
Impact / Brik, 2018
Website for a leadership consultancy together with designers from Loud.
Development, UI/UX wireframing, integrations with 3rd party backend services.
- PHP / Timber
- Twig
- jQuery
- InDesign
Portfolio website
Partisans, 2018
Vanilla HTML portfolio website for a Canadian architecture company with visual designer Emery Dash.
UI/UX prototyping and development of a single page website with customized touch interactions.
- InDesign
- Photoshop
- PHP
- jQuery
- HTML / CSS
Website and custom page builder running on WordPress
Qvidja, 2016-2017
Website for an experimental farm project in southwestern Finland together with illustrator/designer Antti Kalevi.
Development of a custom page builder for the designer, a JavaScript based responsive layout engine and the website itself.
- PHP / Timber
- Twig
- jQuery
Game engine and Website
Kuu, 2017
Development and UX work for an "interactive tragedy" website with Zach Dodson.
Simple website and a text-based adventure game engine with JavaScript.
- HTML/CSS
- jQuery
Tech skills
| Languages | Years' experience |
|---|---|
| JavaScript | 11 |
| HTML/CSS | 13 |
| PHP | 7 |
| Java | 2 |
| Perl | 2 |
| Tools | |
|---|---|
| Visual Studio code | 3 |
| Git | 6 |
| SourceTree | 2 |
| Platforms / libraries | |
|---|---|
| Wordpress | 5 |
| React | 1 |
| jQuery | 7 |
| Twig / Timber | 1 |
| d3 | 2 |
Design skills
| Fields | Years' experience |
|---|---|
| Web | 13 |
| 7 | |
| App | 4 |
| Illustration | 7 |
| Tools | |
|---|---|
| Photoshop | 18 |
| Illustrator | 13 |
| InDesign | 9 |
| After Effects | 3 |
| Sketch | 4 |
| Cinema 4D | 1 |
Education
2020 - MA in New Media Design; Thesis about narrative game design for learning Korean as a foreign language.
2015 - BA in Graphic Design; Thesis about generative graphic design systems.
2013 - B.Sc in Media Technology; Thesis about effects of usability on user acceptance of mobile services.
Awards & grants
2017 - Grant for comic book project, Grafia r.y.
2015 - Vuoden Huiput Silver Award
Interests
Experimental web technologies
Algorithmic design
Data-driven design
Illustration & comics
Sailing
Side projects
That Year in Seoul (2019)
Graphic novel about my year as an exchange student in South Korea.
Corndog Tom
Slice-of-life Instagram comic about my experiences in and surrounding South Korea.
번개 - Hangul studies
(epilepsy warning!) Minisite with various studies in Hangul (한글), the Korean alphabet.
Grid builder tool
Utility for creating grids for InDesign and other page based layout tools.