Skills

Here's a full breakdown of my professional skills.

UI/UX/visual design

  • Design of UI assets for responsive sites and native apps
  • Design system planning, implementation and end-to-end coordination (Figma, Sketch)
  • Design of brand assets & visuals for various forms of media
  • Solid skills in typography
  • Toolstack: Figma, Sketch, Invision, Abstract, Zeplin, Photoshop, Illustrator, Zeroheight, Supernova

Service design & business design

  • Strong analytical & problem-solving skills
  • User insight work (interviewing, observation, questionnaires, benchmarks etc)
  • User insight visualization (customer journey maps, service blueprints etc)
  • Workshop facilitation
  • New concept creation
  • Business model & revenue model design
  • Concept prototyping (various tools)
  • Usability testing & reporting

Development skills

  • Javascript, TypeScript
  • CSS, SASS, LESS, Tailwind
  • UI frameworks (Reactstrap, Bootstrap, Material UI, Foundation, Styled components)
  • React + some frameworks (Next.js)
  • HTML5 + various other markup languages
  • Version control (Git)
  • Vercel
  • Databases: MySQL
  • AWS (RDS, S3)

Team leadership

  • Co-creating a design vision and breaking it down into shorter prioritized goals
  • Mentoring junior designers in design craft, theory, trends and best practices
  • Establishing a design- and data-driven mindset in company culture & practices
  • Designer recruitment (screening, interviews)
  • Designer career path planning

Design theory & practice

  • Extensive understanding of various design methodologies & approaches and their practical application
  • Comprehensive understanding of design principles & patterns
  • Excellent pragmatic skills in applying and understanding color theories
  • Formal understanding of human cognition (part of my master's studies)

Communication skills

  • Native level proficiency in written and spoken English (university degree)

Other creative skills

Let's work together! Hit me up at kimmo@kuisma.co