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Designer
Location
Helsinki, Finland
Toptal Member Since
January 13, 2016
Javier has more than 15 years of experience designing cross-platform services for the web, mobile, and wearables. He's worked for companies with a national and international presence like Starship Technologies, Rovio, Nokia, Pfizer, Finnair, and Microsoft. Javier's specialties are product design (UX/UI), service design, team leading, interactive prototyping, and user testing.
Portfolio
Work Experience
Lead Product Designer
2018 - 2020
Starship Technologies
- Designed an internal tool dashboard to manage and track our robot fleet, our merchants and deliveries.
- Designed, on the merchants' side, the services for merchants (restaurants and groceries) to get orders from customers, prepare the orders, pick items at the stores, and deliver to customers.
- Improved the onboarding flow to new customers.
- Created a design for an age verification system to deliver age-restricted items to our customers.
- Crafted a panel/dashboard design for operators to take control of robots.
- Designed tools for customer support.
- Designed customer feedback systems.
Technologies: Adobe, InVision, Sketch, Figma
Senior UX Designer for Toons.tv
2016 - 2018
Rovio
- Worked on a Finnish tech leader company's website renewal.
- Acted as the lead UX designer of a team of graphic designers and developers that was ultimately responsible for the project.
- Worked in tandem with stakeholders and designed the new company website.
Technologies: Adobe Photoshop, OmniGraffle, Sketch
UX and Interaction Designer
2013 - 2016
Mirum Agency — Activeark JWT
- Designed the campaign for Finnair and Finavia to promote the Helsinki airport as the best transfer connection between Europe and Asia. The campaign won the Best of Finnish Advertising and Design Awards in 2015; the site is matchmadeinhel.com.
- Redesigned the international website for one of the world's biggest crane manufacturers. The client wanted to redesign their website and make it fluid. The company has local sites for more than 50 countries and had to ensure that the new templates would match the needs of all the different sites with different content.
- Designed the mobile world congress site for a market-leading mobile tech company.
- Worked with agile and scrum methodologies.
Technologies: InVision, Adobe Photoshop, OmniGraffle, Sketch
Education
1996 - 1998
Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Information Systems
University of Wales Institute - Cardiff, Wales
1993 - 1996
Higher Education Diploma in Computing
University of Wales Institute - Cardiff, Wales