What I learned running online workshops with a distributed team. — Recently on one of our projects at Elli, the team was just about to start developing the concept for a new product, facing big questions and getting familiar with new personas. Before jumping into any kind of scoping or roadmap definition, we wanted to take a step back and get…

Bringing the dark UI on Android apps — This year at I/O 2019 Google announced that Android will now support Dark Theme at OS level. At the same time we’re seeing more Google apps being rolled out with dark UI support. This will become soon a common pattern and other apps will follow on this path. In this…

Learn Cyrillic is a simple app risen from a personal need. It’s an exploration of flash-cards for a simple use case of learning to read Cyrillic alphabet. After iterations of interaction studies the dating-app-like swiping yes/no interface felt the most natural approach in combination with the card metaphor.

Challenge your friends to walk more — Update on Social Steps Android: Social Steps for Android closing down Social Steps has been one of the most fun projects I’ve worked on. It started as an experiment and became something…medium.com Why SocialSteps? People track their steps to see how much they walk every day and measure their activity. Social Steps is a step counter app that lets users connect with their friends and motivate each other to walk more.

Take a note in one shot — Why Shutter Points?

Stress-free table planning — Why Table Planner? Seating plans can be quite challenging to put together. Table Planner lets you easily play around with table positioning and arrange guests to get the perfect match for your event. The app uses drag and drop as the core interaction to move elements within the interface and it’s specifically optimised…

Scalable app design to support tablets and chromebooks — With the evolution of the Chrome OS and large screen devices the topic of scalable mobile UI has never been so actual. During a short tour of conferences Juhani Lehtimäki and I showcased on stage some of the UX patterns we applied while building responsive layouts and how we experimented…

How we released a side project and what we learned from it — Side projects are a great opportunity to work on something we love and at the same time a good occasion to learn things and train new skills. Unfortunately we are often too busy with our main occupation and most of our ideas never get shipped. At the beginning of 2017…