Currently working at Trimble as a UX designer for the Utilities product family. Alongside I'm finishing my studies at New Media Design and Production at Aalto. I've had a focusing on UI and UX design by taking up the USchool minor from the start. I've also worked as a front-end developer at Canter creating webapps and graphic designs. Free time goes into growing Helsinki Design meetup, by organizing events and producing material for Mishti nose best.
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At Aalto University New Media department experimenting with EEG, interactive art and electronics.
Broadening my knowlidge about design at USchool and developing human-centered design skills in the domain of interactive products and services.
Grew up in Thailand, attended International schools, married an Indian and Finnish by nationality.
UX Designer for the Utilities product family improving current products, developing new ones and focusing on user research and testing.
The meetup brings likeminded people together every first Wednesday of the month. 2 to 3 design practitioners will give concise talks on the latest design trends to get your mind pumped and thinking about the cutting edge of what's happening now.
I got accepted to attend the summer at Kyushu University exploring the Japanese way of working and seeing the research done at Hiroyuki Matsuguma's game lab.
Spent the summer at the Digia office designing web interfaces and sites for multitude of clients. Hands on experience on scalable interfaces and big goverment size projects in media software.
Experimenting with electronics and performance art, working with eeg signals, exploring the combination of art and math... A master's program where I've been able to expand my horizons to the extreme! Otaniemi Stories, South Korea exhibition project: Wage Watch
B2B web projects for customers like Etra, Leipuri and Maritim. Creating marking material and mockups for companies own products and client projects using Adobe software. Doing Adobe Indesign print automation for large scale printed products.
Majored in front-end development and printing. Wrote my final year thesis on D3.js and its use on functional visualization of data. The official paper here: https://www.theseus.fi, the project webpage: 3milyears.lauramk.me and github repo: https://github.com/laurames/d3-and-data
Worked as a front-end developer for the custom team building products for outside companies with the Rovio Angry Birds branding in mind. I was lucky enough to be the only front-end developer on a small game we made for Pepsi Co. called Angry Birds Tazos for South America.
Learned new skills on the team for MetroTV, a student built, maintained and broadcasted internet channel. MetroTV ran for two years.
Stood first in class
Matriculated Eximia Cum Laude Approbatur (E)
in English, Finnish, Health, Psychology, Long Math, Biology and with an Art diploma.
While still in Middle School I was the graphics designer, editor and researcher as part of a team on a video project exploring underage drinking culture. We placed 1st in the youth category of DocPoint 2005, Helsinki Documentary Film Festival with a piece called Your Choice.