Jerry Jäppinen

Head of Design and User Research

Data-driven work horse of product design. Straight from the cross section of design and tech. International brands, big and small, make better products better with me.

  • 17 years of experience in design and product development
  • Down-to-earth design leader and coach
  • Experienced in web and mobile technologies
  • Proponent of agile methodologies
  • Inspired by digital product teams that get things done
  • Owner of Lateral Nord and developer of ProductBeat
Timeline
2022
Head of Design and User Research Current

UX leadership for international marketplaces europages and wlw.de.

  • Managing team of 12 designers and researchers
  • Enable user research, performance marketing creatives, design tooling and product design across the organisation of 450 people
  • Design system tooling and migration
  • Design strategy for multi-platform, multi-brand platform products
  • User research processes and institutionalisation
2021
Head of Design (Interim)

Foundational design for a backend-as-a-service platform.

  • Setup of design workflows and tooling
  • Design-development processes
  • Collaboration with freelancers
  • Product design for BaaS workflows deployments, databases, functions, storage)
  • Product design and usability analysis for CLI product and CLI-GUI workflows
  • Consulting on product management and agile methodologies
2020
Founder, Design Consultant Current

Founder, entrepreneur and independent design expert.

  • Customer projects in developer tooling, engineering, medical field and other domains
  • UX design, research, productisation
  • Agile and product consulting

See full project listing below.

2018
Product Design Lead

Setup of design discipline in the product organisation. First design hire.

  • Recruitment and coaching of digital designers
  • Innovation, rapid productisation
  • Design thinking education
  • Product design for analytics, intelligent media booking and automated creation platforms
2017
Senior UX Designer

First design hire for OLX's global tech hub.

  • Setup of design workflows and toolchain
  • Development team integration and handover flows
  • UX design for content quality, trust + safety and payment platforms
  • Cross-team and stakeholder team collaboration
2016
Senior UX Designer
2015
Lead Designer
Omniata, Helsinki + San Francisco
2011
Senior Designer
2010
Technical UI Artist
Digital Chocolate, Helsinki
2008
Web Designer
2006
Web and graphic design projects
Freelance

Education

2021
Mechanical Engineering
University of Turku, Faculty of Technology
Currently enrolled
2014
HP ATP ­Vertica Big Data Solutions V1
HP, Certification
2007
Practical Philosophy
University of Turku, Faculty of Social Sciences
Enrolled for 3 years
Projects

74 projects during 2007–2023