It’s not rocket science
It’s Art and Magic
We deliver annually over 150+ UX projects. On average we ship out a new user interface for our customers every other day, anything from enterprise solutions to smartphone, tablet, TV, automobile or even heavy industrial machinery UI designed and often also coded by us.
We have successfully created amazing and groundbreaking user experiences for all kinds of companies, from the biggest enterprises to the most adventurous start-ups. We work naturally on all the screens to provide a seamless experience across the various platforms in this convergent world.
Here you may see some of our works, but please make sure to contact us to see some more. It might be the most important business meeting you will ever have.
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Fastems
Factory automation
Fastems is a supplier of flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) and robot cells for the metal cutting industry.
When Fastems approached us, they wanted to take a leap into the future for their station commander software and create a sleek, enjoyable and professional tool that is focused on daily working routines.
This is exactly what we did and more. We created a system that allows users to see possible alarming cases in one glance and presents crucial information on a visual dashboard within the actual working spaces' info screens. For the end-users, we created a touch-based UI that is built around their natural work processes that truly supports their needs.
Electrical cabins with dozens of switches are now history: we’ve centralized these components into one place on a SW tool display.
Web, mobile
MemberPlanet
Community service
Memberplanet is an established startup offering exhaustive online tools for group management.
When they came to us, Memberplanet had an existing web service with extremely powerful tools for group management, such as homepage creation, form building, payment handling, fundraising, event creation, and email campaigns. Such a variety of complex functionality within a single service is a tough challenge for the end-users, who manage groups ranging from 2 to 1,000,000 members.
Based on user-research and client requests, we set out to simplify the existing service by creating a unified interaction model for the core functionalities, as well as concepting a new feed-page where group administrators can track all activity within their group. We also created a new visual style for the service, making it unique and fresh.
Through our work, Memberplanet became much easier to approach for the user, yet it still retains all of the powerful functionalities that the group managers find valuable.
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Tamware
Door solutions
Tamware is one of the leading manufacturers of door solutions for transportation vehicles in Europe.
Choosing the right door solution for transportation vehicles is far from a simple task. There are plenty of variables in the decision making process. It is crucial in this process to calculate future costs in order to save both money and be sustainable.
We helped Tamware to make the decision process easier with our door solutions tool. Just select your needs in three simple steps and you then get to know which door solution will suit you best. Not only for your budget but also for our shared goal of being more environmentally friendly.
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Sandvik
Engineering group in tooling, materials technology, mining and construction
Sandvik is an engineering group in tooling, materials technology, mining and construction.
One of our goals as a company is to design products that are innovative and energy efficient. A brilliant example of this is our industrial client Sandvik, who needed the user interface designed on their crusher, Vibrocone. The project began in Tampere, Finland, where Idean had already worked with Sandvik in platform level UI style development. Sandvik had experienced the benefits that we had delivered to them on previous projects and knew that our newest contributions and user centric working methods would again be a valuable asset in the design process.
The mining industry consumes about 5% of the world’s electrical energy. With its revolutionary technology the Vibrocone reduces energy usage up to 30%, thus making a huge contribution to the environment. We are proud of the part that we played in such an important product.
Web
FIM
Finance
FIM is a Finnish provider of investment services.
FIM wanted us to redesign their web service with the goals of making investing easier for their private customers and highlighting their active and transparent investing philosophy.
Thanks to FIM’s open attitude and solid groundwork, we were able to design a service that underscored their above-mentioned goals. In the visual layout, we left the figurative grey banking world and instead brought vivid colors, friskiness and a modern e-commerce style to the service’s look and feel.
Embedded, mobile
Oxford Instruments
Science
Oxford Instruments is a leading provider of high technology tools and systems for research and industry.
They wished to gain an advantage with an up-to-date user interface that is clearly built for touch interaction. We built our user interface solution on a solid field study and real users' needs. Apart from an easy-to-use touch user interface, our solution was created with a focus on a clear system status.
After the product launch, the X-MET analyzer gained a lot of positive feedback among users: none of the competitors has anything like what we have created.
Web
OmaMehiläinen
Health care
Mehiläinen is the best-known and most respected provider of private health care and social services in Finland.
In co-operation with Mehiläinen and end-users, we designed a web service aimed at their private and occupational health care customers. Through the service, users can access and manage their personal health information.
The service now has over 30,000 happy users in Finland and has received excellent feedback. It has also remarkably increased the interaction between Mehiläinen and its customers, as well as encouraged its users to focus more on their health.
Tablet
Ilta-Sanomat
Media
Ilta-Sanomat is Finland’s largest quality tabloid published by Sanoma News, the leading multi-channel media company in Finland.
Ilta-Sanomat needed ideas and visions for its tablet strategy and road map in early 2010, prior to iPad’s release in the Finnish market. Idean provided two videos where potential interaction models, visual looks, different advertising alternatives and payment models were examined.
In addition, we provided a presentation on the key trends, device base forecasts and strategic issues in the Finnish tablet market.
TV, mobile, tablet
“Future television concept”
The initial concept from the client was to provide a fresh interactive approach towards TV viewing for users. Our task was to innovatively approach the concept idea and then create a UI design to match it.
In essence, we needed to create a smooth experience that worked seamlessly on various platforms, including TV sets, tablets and mobile devices.
Upon completion of the project, Idean successfully designed a future television concept for our customer, Tieto.
Web, mobile
Dovre Group
Project management services and software
Dovre Group is a global provider of management services.
We redesigned Dovre Group’s web service with the end goal of making it especially attractive to large-project industry personnel, i.e. specialized engineers and project managers, who are extremely sought after. In this project, responsive design provided a solution to their existing need, as the service is often used on mobile or tablet devices rather than on computer screens.
Their web service is now fresh, easier to understand and stands out amongst its competitors.
Web, mobile
Scoopshot
Crowdsourcing
Scoopshot is a company that revolutionizes how to work with photos and videos.
This company develops and runs the groundbreaking Scoopshot™ photo service that brokers news photography between mobile users around the world and the international media through their own Scoopshot Store.
Idean was a part of the core team that created the key elements of the Scoopshot’s award winning service design. Our designers at Idean worked on the concept, visual and interaction design for both the mobile application and the web service.
Web, mobile
Balancion
Personal finance management
Balancion is a pioneer in online personal finance management, which was originally released in 2009.
Balancion’s bold concept was to create a tool for personal finance management that was visually appealing, safe and user friendly. Idean managed the service design from user insight and UX concept design to the strategy and a major part of the UI development.
The design development was carried out in close co-operation with the Balancion’s management team. The input from the service customers was kept central in the service development process.
We utilized up-to-date customer feedback as the starting point for our agile design process in this project.
Web
Kiosked
Content activation platform
Kiosked is currently one of the hottest startups in Finland. The company provides a content activation platform that turns any online content, images, videos and applications into interactive and viral storefronts.
The founders of Kiosked turned to Idean for our expertise in UI design. Our assignment was to create a visually appealing design in a user friendly way.
The starting point was to hide the service's complexity from its users. This was done by studying carefully the concept idea and by keeping the focus on customer perspective in the design process.
In addition to the user interface Idean provided design guidelines and the icon library for the service.
Web
Teosto
Copyright society
Teosto is a Finnish copyright society for composers.
We redesigned the concept and the visual appearance of Teosto’s new web service. The service now looks fresh and modern. Its structure is divided into three segments according to its user groups.
Less is more in this case as the number of pages was reduced to only six from the former 50+ pages… without any information deleted in the process. If that is not magic, then what is?
Web
Martela
Interior solution designer and supplier
Martela designs and supplies interior solutions for working environments and public spaces. It is the largest company in its sector in Finland and one of the three largest in the Nordic countries.
Before the renewal, Martela’s website was dated, didn’t follow a linear thread and lacked consistency in its hierarchy and structure. Our challenge was to design a highly efficient site with a top-notch user experience. We updated the style and created a style guide to support future development.The modular block elements that were incorporated now offer the user relevant content and create a consistent look and feel.
The feedback from their customers has been excellent and Martela conveyed how pleased they were with our working methods and techniques.
We think that we achieved a modern, user friendly and consistent service that builds into Martela’s renowned brand.
Web, mobile
Rautakesko
Hardware retailer
Rautakesko operates in the building and home improvement supplies trade in Nordic and Baltic countries. K-rauta is Rautakesko’s international concept that focuses on wide selections and a good price-quality ratio.
K-Rauta wanted to create one application for all their different platforms: web, iPad and in-store kiosk systems that would offer the same high-level user experience. We came up with the Ideation Tool, an innovative and inspirational tool for creating interior design mood boards.
The customer feedback has been excellent and it is amazing to see that without any major market campaigning, customers have still discovered the application available in the App Store.
The application has now been launched in six countries. Also the in-store kiosk with touch, mouse and iPad setups have expanded nation wide in Finland.
Report
Mobile content services market in Finland 2011-2015
Multiclient
In June of 2012, Idean provided a market research report that was subsequently published. It was a multi-client study commissioned by the Ministry of Transport and Communications in Finland, Ministry of Employment and the Economy and TeleForum ry.
The purpose of the report is to provide an overall view on the mobile content market dynamics in Finland.
Idean was responsible for data gathering, analysis, report writing as well as visual and page layout.
