Projects

a11yprompter – Accessibility guidance for editors

Creating accessibility awareness for content editors with seamless CMS integration

code

Screenshot of a page that shows this website's content as an ActivityPub stream, resembling the Mastodon UI.

Personal websites as native Fediverse citizens

The frustrating, but equally rewarding, quest to reverse-engineer ActivityPub

code exploration

Illustration of a browser and a server as persons with legs and arms. The server is crossed out in red, while the browser is accompanied by a folder with text "cache" and marked with a green tick.

Maximizing cache performance in Kirby CMS

An exercise in optimizing a website caching strategy

code exploration

Montage of two photos, one showing two copies of the printed thesis booklet and one showing a sample page spread.

The Absent Peer – Non-users in Social Interaction Design

A deep dive into the phenomenon of technology non-use, and a framework for its consideration in design

design research publication

Screenshot of a Kirby CMS admin UI to manage comments and webmentions. Each entry has its own row, with an action button revealing menu of options like approve, unapprove, edit, delete, etc.

Commentions

Comments and Webmentions, in a data-minmalist, ethical and privacy-by-default manner

code

Illustration where data (represented by arrows) flows from a smartphone as the Micropub client via the Micropub endpoint (symbolized by a box) to the Kirby content files (represented using a database symbol).

Kirby Micropublisher

Merging the simplicity of Micropub with the flexibility of Kirby CMS

code

A whiteboard with post-it notes, two persons in the background engaged in a discussion

GDPR workshop for designers

Law meets data ethics, meets technology, design and agency practice

workshop education legal design

An audience/context-conscious POSSE syndication plugin for WordPress

Tailoring cross-posted content to the target context

code exploration

A seminar room with the author presenting a slide title with the Finnish word "ihminen", which is "human" in English

The "user" is a human being

Broadening the scope of a usability class into looking at humans and technology at large

education

Screenshot of the event announcement on the website of "Kuusi Palaa", the space hosting the event.

"Website privacy extreme" workshop

Generating ideas for taking website privacy to the extreme

workshop

A pen-drawn graphic of a mobile phone with a cookie banner next to the annoying paperclip character from early versions of MS Word.

Designing away the cookie disclaimer

A lightning talk about how to avoid cookie disclaimers by smart design

legal design talk

Illustration of a burger, with the bottom bun labeled "backend", the patty "interface" and the top bun "concept"

Privacy-aware web design

Explorations on recreating common web design patterns, privacy-first

exploration

Screenshot of a privacy policy document with expandable chapters; the currently open section is "When visiting this website" and "The absolutely necessary" and describes what data is collected about a website user

A user-centered privacy policy

What if a privacy policy were designed according to user needs, not legal convention?

legal design exploration

The author on a stage, with a slide: "Datenschutz-UX: Lösung, Verantwortung, Chance"

Privacy UX

Public ponderings on designer's role in shaping privacy experiences

legal design talk

Screenshot of a greyscale map, with grey dots of different opacity marking a trail; one dot is highlighted in yellow

Owning your live GPS data

Location sharing via GPS, with complete control over the data

code exploration

The title of the book in a white heart on red background (excerpt from the book cover).

Reducing social distance through co-design

Teaching and researching the power of co-design methods

publication design research education

Exhibition visitors at the "mini catalog print station" of the MoA 2012 exhibition

Strategic web design

MA-level course on strategy-driven web design

education strategy

Screenshot of the "masters of Aalto 2013" website

MoA – Masters of Arts

An online equivalent for a physical graduate show

education strategy website

A strong display of green aurora borealis over a snowy parking lot with cars, illuminated by street lights.

Aurora Urbanis – Northern Lights in Urban Landscapes

Making visible the overlooked beauty of nature that can be observed even in urban environments

photography

This is only a selection of projects. For a personal presentation of my complete portfolio (incl., where permissable, client projects not suitable for public display), and to find out how I could assist your project, get in touch.