Arto Viitanen

Designer in Porvoo, Finland

Member since June 9, 2017

Arto is the former Head of Design at Idean, Palo Alto, with 10+ years of UX design experience (and hundreds of projects). He has a versatile background in business, programming, and design, which makes him a good fit for concept creation and MVP projects. His clients praise his efficiency.

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Portfolio

Digital Design

Continuent - Database Clustering and Replication (2018)
- Databases
- Database Clustering
- Data Centers
- Dashboard Design
Relayr IoT - Onboarding and Web Dashboard (2014)
Kaliber - Fine Dining Experience (2017)
- Restaurants & Dining
- Service Design
- App Design
- Branding
- iOS App Design
- iOS UX Design
- iOS UI Design
- Hospitality
- Visual Design
KidAptive - Educational Entertainment (2012)
- Apps
- Educational Games
- Dashboard Design
- iPad
- iOS App Design
- Prototyping
- iOS UX Design
Omnitrail - Indoor Location Technology (2015)
- Indoor Positioning Systems
- Real-time Locating Systems (RTLS)
- Web UX
- Branding
- User Experience (UX)
- Industrial IoT
- Internet of Things (IoT)
GoWealthGo - A Tool for Financial Advisors (2014)
- Fintech
- Financial UX
- Financial Advisory

Employment

Freelence Designer
2014 - PRESENT
Self-employed
- Contracted primarily for startups.
- Worked with value creation strategy and marketability.
- Designed UX/UI/services for 20+ products and services.
- Branded early-stage companies.
- Contributed to several AI and machine learning projects.
- Engaged with a multitude of business domains, including medical, real estate, financial, VR, knowledge management, and many more.
Technologies: Adobe CS, Sketch, InVision, Webflow
Head of Design
2010 - 2014
Idean Enterprises
- Managed projects and spearheaded design in dozens of projects with clients ranging from several Fortune 500 companies to early-stage startups.
- Managed a portfolio of clients and oversaw the processes and quality in project deliveries.
- Provided not only UX design but also user research, illustration, visual design, animation, and video.
- Mentored at several startup accelerators.
- Helped grow the company from 5 to 50 employees and through acquisition.
- Developed several workshop methods and processes used widely at the company.
Technologies: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Pixate, InVision, Axure, WordPress, Android Studio
CEO
2006 - 2010
Comeks
- Handled all levels of tasks including fundraising, business development, sales, recruitment, financials, concept design, UX design, and overall leadership.
- Developed mobile applications primarily before the iPhone. We were funded by Accel Partners and managed to sign partnerships with several big European carriers and phone manufacturers.
- Had more than 300,000 installations for our J2ME cartoon generator app (very similar to Snapchat these days) and we were pre-installed on several Sony Ericsson phone models.
Technologies: Android, iOS, J2ME

Education

Master's degree in Industrial Management/Design Business Management/Computer Science
1999 - 2007
Aalto University - Espoo, Finland

Experience

GoAnimate5 years
Sketch2 years
Webflow CMS2 years

Tools

GoAnimate
Sketch

Location

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