Ernesti Niemi, Digital Designer
Diverse Designer from the heart of Finland.
Hi, I'm Ernesti — a Digital Designer with diverse experience in UX/UI and visual design. Currently creating world class web solutions with Into-Digital Ltd.
From initial service design to wireframes, rapid prototypes and interface layouts.
Ernesti Niemi
Years of experience with web based solutions and industrial design studies combined with past virtual and augmented reality work. I have the required skills and an opportunity to play a key design role in multidisciplinary product development teams. As a designer I am able to study and respond to current events and user behaviour with seemingly limitless artistic possibilities. Even better, I get to use my skills in an agile and adaptable manner while developing valuable solutions to end users' needs.
Care to learn more about meDigital Designer
With a strong focus on UX/UI Design
40+
Successful projects as a key team member
Helsinki, Finland
Current location
Comprehensive design from the get go. I am constantly involved in product pitches and workshop facilitation as well as service- and user experience design. I Produce everything from visual identities to final production ready layout prototypes and visual assets. Basically, being involved throughout your digital product development cycle and future development requirements. Not as a lone wolf though. As a designer I take pride in listening to all of the stakeholders at hand. My job is to help you succeed, regardless of your own specific role as a developer, product owner, end user or anything in between.
See how I work
From web services to e-commerce solutions and design systems.
No two web solutions alike. I have had the opportunity to work on a wide range of design projects of various shapes and sizes. From simple campaign landers to complex e-commerce platforms and web applications. Even a couple of massive government services and a critical role in developing cross-team cooperation through common groundrules and design principles.
See my selected work
Professional creative work in the digital world.
Web layouts
With accessible, scaleable and developer friendly solutions
Interactive prototypes
With complete user paths, interface elements and clearly designed corner cases
Visual design
From graphical assets to highly detailed visualizations
Photography
With a passion for the 35mm analog format
Huoneistokeskus & Retta, a real estate brokers new approach.
Together, Huoneistokeskus and Retta are more. The merging of a reputable real estate manager and a broker firm resulted in new business synergies and strategies. It was time to shift course and entirely revamp the Huoneistokeskus real estate platform's brand identity and functionality. In a fiercely competitive market, our new portal was created with the utmost love and attention to serve as a marketing tool for our customers' new real estate management services as well as to make apartment hunting easier for consumers.
See the case study for moreUX Design
Focusing on ease of use through rapid prototyping and user flow design
Visual identity
a Total redesign of the visual brand theme achieved by combining brand identities
Modular UI layouts
Layout design with responsive and accessible interface elements and dynamic features
NYT, Gamified learning solutions and real time event control panels.
Nuorten Yrittäjyys ja Talous, NYT, a family of gamified learning applications for school pupils combined with feature-rich control panel solutions for teachers and professional users alike. Converting lesson plans into complex game concepts necessitated extensive service and application logic design. With users ranging in age from 7 to 16 years old and a common theme such as entrepreneurship and economics, the gamification of this learning material was critical. Short user attention spans and difficult-to-understand content relations required a keen focus on service UX and visual themes that would appeal to young users.
End-user feedback has been phenomenal, and while development is still underway, new design projects are constantly being added.
Unreleased, contact for moreService and architecture design
Converting complex game logic and ideas into user friendly solutions
Game design
Visually pleasing and gamified application design
Feature rich control panel solutions
Easy to use yet functionally loaded game master control panels both for professional and client use
Case Itis, a lively hub in the east.
New direction for the best known shopping center in Finland. Itis was reborn as a regional hub of activity, with the goal of becoming more than just a shopping center. This new direction, combined with updated brand visuals, resulted in a modern, mobile-first platform focused on usability and accessibility. Including personalized user paths, local news and events, intuitive business categories, and dynamic content. Topping it all off with a comprehensive intranet for all business-to-client communication and content management needs.
Hands-on from the start. Starting with a proof-of-concept prototype & visual assets and progressing to full UX/UI layouts and on-site photography assignments. As a core project team member, I oversaw the design phase from start to finish, as well as everything from the initial project sales to debugging and further development.
See the case study for moreSales and concept design
Through proof-of-concept prototypes and visual presentations
User flow design
End-user need-based user paths and customizable topical content landers
Mobile first layouts
Modern and clean layouts with easily digestable content and modular presentation
On-site photography
Gritty street photography for the marketing department's needs
Pirkanmaan Kulttuuripankki, a network hub for creatives.
The social platform for creative networking. Kulttuuripankki, led by the city of Tampere, was built with a single purpose in mind — allow creators in the arts and culture sector to easily promote their services and network with potential clients. In the end, Kulttuuripankki serves as an ideal platform for service announcement with public creator profiles and service bid bulletins. Above all, user feedback has been overwhelmingly positive, sparking further interest in similar platforms in other professional fields.
Focus on user created content and profile management. Kulttuuripankki, as a social platform, required thorough service design and well-thought-out user management flows, with all possible scenarios and corner cases identified. I approached the design as a full-fledged application-like product, with intuitive UX combined with modern dark-themed visuals and responsive layouts for varying content formats and quantities.
See the case study for moreUX Design
With a strong emphasis on user profiles and profile management
Visual brand guidelines
Adapting public sector branding themes for professional use
Dynamic content layouts
User created content as the carrying theme supported by underlying marketing landing pages and general web service content
Talo Maalta, bringing your countryside dreams to life.
Making dreams come true. A dating site combined with low-interest lease contracts? Talo Maalta brings together those who have empty estates to lease and those who dream of a life away from the hustle and bustle of the city. Talo Maalta, which draws heavily on dating apps like Tinder and lease platforms like Airbnb, allows users to either post their own vacant estate notifications or bring forth their public tennant applications.
And the rest is history, still in the making.
See the case study for moreService design
a Simple idea evolved into a functional application
UX Design
Covering all possible use cases for a variety of user profiles
Bringing dreams to life
Prioritizing usability and value over visual splendor, while simultaneously maintaining credible form
Always open for further discussion.
Call, text, or message me on Whatsapp. I am happy to discuss future proposals with you.
+358 40 584 0104
Do you prefer longer messages? You can always send me an old-fashioned email.
ernesti.niemi@gmail.com