Oskar Rutten
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Toptal member since January 21, 2020
Oskar has 9+ years of experience as a UI/UX designer. He has worked with a wide range of clients from multinational corporations like Marchex to startups and charities. As the creative director of the Housing All Australians Charity and a freelancer, he has worked on multiple projects across fintech, B2B, B2C, and everything in between with teams of varying sizes.
Portfolio
Property Investment Web App
Creptrack – Sneakerhead Collection Manager
FoxHub – Video Education Platform Concept
NomNom – Microsoft, RMIT Mixed Reality Hackathon Winner
Sneaker Marketplace – Concept
Work Experience
Founder and CPTO
Karia
- Led the team and product from 0-1, offering three full products.
- Built a mobile app that hit the top 100 on the Australian App Store for finance.
- Led all design, tech, and product across the company and its enterprise offerings, including embedded banking capabilities.
CTPO
Leaselab
- Built an in-house fleet management and ERP tool that managed over $300 million in assets from scratch in under nine months.
- Built out the company's technical capabilities internally and public-facing.
- Went from building the internal tool myself to managing a team of six that focused on internal and external tech and product for the leasing space.
Workshop and Change Management Facilitator
L'Oreal Australia - Australia
- Led 80+ in-person and hybrid workshops across divisions in Australia and New Zealand, as well as provided guidance and recommendations.
- Created a change blueprint per division for where each division should focus and where alignment across the merger could happen.
- Worked with the local C-suite to build migration/change management plans across all divisions and 500+ employees in Australia and New Zealand.
Creative Director
Housing All Australians
- Created the company logo, including typography and design documents for the trademarking process.
- Developed the brand and brand guidelines along with the style guide.
- Built the social media, email, document, and presentation graphics.
- Managed fellow pro bono workers as a fluid team for the design and website team through the current website redesign process.
Founder/Freelancer
OR Design Labs
- Worked with a wide range of clients from multinational corporations to startups and charities.
- Designed landing pages, dashboards, and online applications using Adobe XD and Protopie.
- Devised all documentation for each app, detailing all aspects, functions, capabilities, and features.
- Created applications from ideation to reality, including the full market research process, clickable prototypes, pitch decks, and developer handoff guides.
- Consulted on current apps and websites to improve UX user flows and update UI design systems.
- Created an AR health app scanning foods to return their nutritional information, winning a Microsoft XR Hackathon in Melbourne, Australia.
- Assisted in creating the design system for a listed company in the call analytics industry.
- Nominated in the Prospect 100 top 100 innovators in the world under 21 in 2020. Competition judges included Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple.
Co-founder and Creative Director
Creptrack
- Created the complete UI/UX of the app and design system.
- Conducted research by interviewing users, external customers, and various stakeholders.
- Engineered prototypes to support research and usability testing.
- Devised sitemaps, user flows, wireframes, and mockups for designs based on stakeholder requests.
- Established milestones for the project and prepared all the team members to meet aggressive deadlines.
- Managed the developer and three subcontractors to deliver on multiple deadlines, including hiring and deliverables management.
Education
Bachelor of Accounting Degree in Financial Planning
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology - Melbourne, Australia
Bachelor's Degree in Accounting
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology - Melbourne, Australia
Skills
Tools
Adobe Experience Design (XD), Adobe Dimension, Adobe Photoshop, ProtoPie, Avocode, Adobe CC, Adobe, HoloLens, Adobe Aero, Adobe Illustrator, Zeplin
Platforms
Figma, iOS, MacOS, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Languages
TypeScript
Industry Expertise
Education, Food, Health
Other
Mobile Design, iOS App Design, Prototyping, Wireframing, Web Design, Dashboards, Dashboard Design, Design Systems, Responsive Web Design (RWD), SaaS, Product Design, SaaS Design, Web App Design, UI Design, Data Visualization, UX Design, Pitch Decks, User Interface (UI), User Experience (UX), Fintech, Mockups, App Design, Overflow, Presentation Design, Blockchain, Visual Design, Startups, Product Management, Blockchain Platforms, Construction, Business Strategy, Co-design, Ideation Workshops, Roadmaps, Enterprise SaaS, User Research, B2B, UX Audits, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Role-based Access Control (RBAC), UX Wireframes, Web App UX, Agile, Design Reviews, Responsive Web Apps, User Journey Maps, Tailwind UI, MVP Design, UX Strategy, ChatGPT, Mobile App Design, iOS UI Design, App Icon Design, UX Analysis, Workflow, Interaction Design (IxD), Web App UI, UX Research, User Testing, User Validation, Market Research, Augmented Reality (AR), User Flows, User Personas, Accounting, Finance, Financials, Design Thinking, OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence as a Service (AIaaS), Print Design, Marketplace Design, Marketplaces, eCommerce, eCommerce Design, Style Guides, Social Media, Social Media Apps, Gamification, ARKit, Microsoft HoloLens, Holograms, Foodtech, Nutrition & Supplements, Responsive Design, Pencil Sketches, Google Material Design, Material Design, Branding, Campaign Monitoring, Minimal UI, Information Architecture (IA), Web Dashboards, Web UI, Maps, Property Management, Property Listings, Landing Pages, Analytics, Forecasting, bedrock
Experience
- User Experience (UX) - 10 years
- User Interface (UI) - 9 years
- Adobe Experience Design (XD) - 9 years
- UI Design - 7 years
- Fintech - 6 years
- App Design - 5 years
- Dashboard Design - 4 years
- Blockchain - 3 years
Tools
- Adobe Experience Design (XD)
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