I’m an independent UX/UI designer with over 18 years of experience in designing digital services and products for all common platforms in dozens of industries, in collaboration with trusted companies all over the world.
Together with you and your experts we plan and organise a one-week long design sprint, in order to innovate and validate service or product ideas for further concepting:
Day 1. Defining the problem we aim to solve.
Day 2. Ideating potential solutions to the problem.
Day 3. Prioritizing and picking the best solution.
Day 4. Crafting an interactive prototype for the solution.
Day 5. Validating the prototype with end-users.
Duration: 2 – 3 weeks
A service concept describes the vision, goals, target users, opportunities and user scenarios of the service. A concept is needed for every new service and is useful in supporting sales and investment decisions.
Together we clarify your vision and business goals for the service. We identify the users who will be most impacted by the service. Then we gather understanding about the users’ needs, challenges and behaviour by discussing with your experts and by researching the users. Together we use the insights to ideate solutions, that I will turn into an interactive prototype. Finally, I test the prototype with users and refine it based on the feedback.
Duration: (depends on the scope)
Development-ready designs detail all the features and interactions of an entire service or product, including visual specifications and assets, so that they can be handed over to developers. The handover can be made in parts, which suits for agile projects, or in full.
After drafting the service concept, we define all the details and the visual style of the service together with you and your experts. I then turn the concept and the definitions into an interactive prototype and validate it with end-users. Through continuous collaboration with developers I will ensure the technical feasibility of the designs and visual quality of the implementation.
Duration: (depends on the scope)
Together with you and your customers, we map the steps of the entire customer journey through all the relevant services and touch points, in order to identify the most crucial moments in the experience. Based on the findings, we build a vision and roadmap for making the experience better and memorable.
Duration: 6 – 8 weeks
I will go through in detail the user interface of your existing service or product, in order to identify issues that violate broadly applicable design, usability or accessibility principles. As an outcome, you’ll get a report of the findings with concrete, visualized improvement recommendations.
Duration: 3 – 5 days
I will test and validate your existing service or product with 5 end-users, in order to identify substantive and structural flaws, and to validate how well it meets the expectations of users. As an outcome, you’ll get recordings of the sessions and a report of the findings with concrete, visualized improvement recommendations.
Duration: 3 – 5 days
I can also work as your outsourced team member with a tailored scope.
An online database of up-to-date legislative and other judicial information for a Finnish media company
A social TV and second-screen experience for the audience of a Latin American television network
Video-focused mobile news apps for an American Spanish language broadcast television network
A car instrument cluster and an infotainment display UI for demonstrating the potential of a cross-platform development toolkit
Due to strict confidentiality agreements, I’m unable to present most of my work in public. To see my work, please get in touch.
Automotive
Construction
Education
Finance
Healthcare
Industrial
Insurance
Legal services
Media
Mining
Recruitment services
Retail & trade
Telecommunications
My approach ensures that the end result meets the needs of the users and is easy to use. It leads to a higher quality, shortens the development time and improves the documentation.
You can count on me to stick to your project from start to finish. This eliminates the risks of designer changes that can lead to project delays and loss of valuable know-how.
I am able to provide services cost-effectively due to low overhead costs. The prices do not include project management costs or hidden costs to cover other projects.
You always know beforehand the designer you’ll get, my capabilities and price, unlike when buying design from multi-person agencies.
Working directly with me without middle men, like project managers, reduces extra communication and increases efficiency.
I speak the same language with developers. My technical understanding of different platforms reduces the risks associated with the technical feasibility of designs and increases efficiency.
I can work at the most suitable times for the project and you. My working hours aren’t limited to normal office hours or weekdays.
I turned my childhood hobby into a career and my career into a business. I care about your design projects as they were my own.
Tomi creates outstanding, high quality design solutions delightfully fast. As a disciplined thinker he goes to the bottom of things and clarifies them before making solutions, which makes the solutions really solid. A visual designer is practically not needed with Tomi.
Mika Käki
Program Director, Idean
Tomi’s strengths are his deep know-how and ability to focus on the essentials. He is able to take advantage of his extensive experience, and also to quickly identify shortcomings of UIs, always justifying his improvement suggestions. Tomi is trustworthy and independent.
Marjukka Mäkelä
Head of UX, ABB
