Perttu Makkonen

Documentation Technology Expert at Nokia Siemens Networks

Location: Finland
Industry: Computer Software

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Perttu Makkonen's Overview

Current

Documentation Technology Expert at Nokia Siemens Networks

Past

Senior User Experience Designer at Nokia
Research assistant at University of Tampere
Programmer at Tietovalta

Education

Tampereen yliopisto

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I am a senior user experience designer and I have made my career in smartphones. My specialty is web technologies. I’m known of getting quickly familiar with new technologies or services and coming up with a human-friendly UX concept. Recently I have been practising with modern web programming languages.

Specialties

Interaction design, UI design for mobile devices, web design, UI prototypes, UX concepts, usability tests

Tools:
MS Visio, PhotoShop, Illustrator, Flash, InkScape, HTML5, JavaScript, Jquery, Django

Documentation Technology Expert

Nokia Siemens Networks

May 2013 – Present (2 months)

Senior User Experience Designer

Nokia

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; NOK; Telecommunications industry

June 1999 – June 2012 (13 years 1 month)

Senior User Experience Designer (Nokia Design, 6.2011 - 6.2012)

I designed mobile user interfaces for Nokia smartphones. I took over the responsibilities of two designers who left the company. The areas I worked on included audio apps, web browser and car mode of the mobile device.

Senior User Experience Designer (Nokia Services, Local Content Services, 3.2011 – 6.2011)

I designed location-aware mobile guides for smartphones. I took over the responsibilities of a designer who left the company. I co-worked with several international service providers and started the development of mobile services.

Senior User Experience Designer (Nokia MS Symbian Smartphones, UXO Core UI, 1.2006 – 3.2011.)

I designed mobile user interfaces for smartphones. I coordinated design work for subcontractors. I acted as the lead designer in Application Lifecycle project. My responsibility was to ensure an uniform user experience on installing and managing 3rd party apps regardless of their origin or format.

Senior UI Designer (Nokia MSW, 12.2002 – 12.2005)

I designed mobile user interfaces for smartphones and communicators. I made many big usability improvements for the communicator products and designed the next generation mobile web browser.

UI Designer (Nokia Mobile Phones, 6.1999 – 11.2001)

I designed many mobile application user interfaces for the world’s first camera phone (Nokia 7650).