Need a web or interaction designer who's passionate about user experience?

My name is Pirkka Rannikko I work as a user experience specialist/product owner/development manager at Pocum. Besides that I do some web and interaction design on my spare time (barely enough to call myself a freelancer).

Web design

I design websites that not only meet their business objectives but are also usable, accessible and search engine optimized. Besides web standards like HTML, CSS and JavaScript I use progressive enhancement, unobtrusive coding and other web design best practices to build your web site. This ensures that everyone can access your website, it's easily found by being search engine friendly and further development and updates are effortless as possible.

My freelance web design services include:

  • Website and web application concept and information architecture design (sitemaps, workflows and wireframes)
  • Graphical user interface design (mock-up/layout images)
  • Front-end development/sitebuilding (HTML/CSS/JavaScript/jQuery templates)
  • CMS setup and integration (Wordpress, CMS Made Simple, Typo3, Radiant CMS)
  • Microsoft Sharepoint 2007 & 2010 user interface customization/branding
  • SEO and web analytics with Google Analytics (IQ certified)
  • Web performance optimization (WPO)

User experience consultancy (with Agile twist)

In addition to designing and building websites, delivering a great user experience is my passion. I have experience in user-centered design and usability engineering and can offer following services:

  • User research
  • Requirements engineering
  • User interface design
  • Expert/heuristic usability evaluation
  • Usability testing

Agile software development and project management

Despite my passion in user-centered design and usability I don't see myself as "just another one of those UX people". Although I am a designer (and not a programmer) I am also an Agile software development enthusiast, Certified Scrum Master and have picked up some Agile know-how and project management experience along the way. This hopefully reflects back to my work as a designer. My master's thesis discusses how to integrate User-Centered Design in Agile Software Development.

Education and work history

Education

  • University of Tampere, Master of Science in Interactive Technology (thesis about Agile UCD) 2008 - 2011
  • Häme University of Applied Sciences, Bachelor of Engineering in Media Technology (thesis about design and project management in digital media) 2003 - 2007
  • Kaleva Senior Secondary School, Graduate 1998 - 2001

Work history

  • Freelance web and interaction designer 2005 -
  • Pocum, "User Experience Specialist/Product Owner/Development Manager" 02.01.2012 -
  • Evolvit, Systems Designer 06.09.2010 - 21.12.2011
  • Trainers' House (Satama), Web interface programmer & team leader 01.08.2009 - 03.09.2010
  • Satama Interactive, Web interface programmer 02.05.2007 - 31.07.2009
  • Satama Interactive, Web content feeder 02.04.2007 - 30.4.2007
  • Häme University of Applied Sciences, Trainee & Media assistant. Working as a designer and a project manager in different projects. Assistant on a course about video production. 2005 - 2007
  • Tampere Parking Houses Ltd, Trainee. Working on the Mediatunneli digital media project. 17.05.2004 - 27.08.2004