Javier Amate
Designer
Helsinki, Finland
Member since January 11, 2016
Javier has more than 15 years working experience designing cross-platform services for the web, mobile, and wearables. He's worked for companies with national and international presence like Rovio, Nokia, Konecranes, Pfizer, Finnair, Nokia Technologies, and Microsoft. His specialties are UX/UI design, service design, team leading, information architecture, interaction design, UX research, wireframing, interactive prototyping, and user testing
Javier is now available for hire
Employment
- Senior UX Designer for Toons.tv2016 - PRESENTRovio
- Worked on a Finnish tech leader company's website renewal. As the lead UX designer of a team of graphic designers and developers was ultimately responsible for the project. While working in tandem with stakeholders, we designed the new company website.
Technologies: Sketch, Omnigraffle, Adobe Photoshop - UX & Interaction Designer2013 - 2016Mirum Agency - Activeark JWT
- Worked on a Finnish tech leader company's website renewal. As the lead UX designer of a team of graphic designers and developers was ultimately responsible for the project. While working in tandem with stakeholders, we designed the new company website.
- 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 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 for all the different sites with different content.
- Designed the mobile world congress site for the market leader mobile tech company.
- Worked with Agile and Scrum methodologies.
Technologies: Sketch, Omnigraffle, Photoshop, InVision
Education
- Bachelor of Science in Business Information Systems1996 - 1998University of Wales Institute - Cardiff, Wales
- Higher Education Diploma in Computing1993 - 1996University of Wales Institute - Cardiff, Wales
Experience
- Sketch15 years
- Conceptual Design15 years
- User Experience (UX)15 years
- User Interface (UI)15 years
- Adobe Photoshop14 years
- UI Design10 years
- UX Design10 years
- InVision4 years
Tools
- Sketch
- InVision
- Adobe Photoshop
