Karl Simmer

Karl Simmer

Product Designer in Tallinn

About

I do product design and web development. On my journey, I've led design process for user-centric products and design systems.

Projects

2024

Freya is a sustainable catering service and a foodbar in Tallinn, Estonia. They are on a mission to redefine fast food, by offering a green alternative.

Site is built with Wordpress and Elementor page builder. There's a feature built with ACF, which displays the menu of the day. Contact form is built with Contact Form 7, using conditional fields.

2024

It's an open source design system. Definitely a different one.

It comes with a complete component library made in Figma. Coded components for several technologies. We set up code automation using design tokens (with Figma variables).

I'm a Lead Product Designer.

2023

Motiveer is AI-powered, employee development platform. I designed a landing page and created visual content with Midjourney.

I used Niji 5 model, it seemed to be perfect for anime aesthetics and character-focused compositions, which matched with Motiveers own character.

With UI design, I wanted to ensure that Motiveer would reflect to its visitors as a light weight and promising startup.

2023

Food brings us all together and luckily I got to be a lead product designer at Fudy. 🍕

I was mainly building components, app flows and prototypes for a Delivery and Dine-in apps.

All that with newly launched Figma Variables (so freakin' cool).

2022

Tempus operates in the Web3 space. I contributed as a contractor to three DeFi projects: Nostra, WenWin, and Raft.

Nostra is a decentralized exchange for lending, borrowing and trading crypto. WenWin is a blockchain lottery on Ethereum network and Raft is a platform to deposit collateral and earn yield.

Side Projects

2024

There was an active fan community with a nice PHP forum in 2000’s Estonia. I saw the domain available and I wanted to dedicate that small internet space to the fans of my favourite band.

2024

I code my own websites and I wish to bring back personal web space which we have lost today.

2019
Sacrifices at HqO Productions

I've never really considered myself a graphic designer, but I designed a logo for an indie film called "Sacrifices" from Philadelphia, PA. I think that is pretty dope!

Work Experience

2024 — Now

Building design tokens and components for Moon Design System.

2023 — 2024

I led the product design of a QR-ordering product for restaurants, bars and other venues.

Fudy was transitioning from a food delivery service, where customer and restaurant staff interactions were entirely online. With Order & Pay, we focused on creating an immediate, personal in-person dining experience.

2022 — 2023
UI/UX/front-end/wateva at Self-employed

I was providing mostly UI/UX design services, occasional web/wordpress development and other creative outputs.

2019 — 2022

Fiizy has been doing fintech products, mainly being a marketplace for financial products and services.

I was mainly doing UI design for lending applications for different markets, coding and designing HTML emails.

Later, I contributed to Fiizy's shift into Buy Now, Pay Later, designing a checkout concept and a rebranded website for the product.

Volunteering

2019 — 2019
Estonia

I did a front-end of a landing page for 2019 charity event "No Kid Hungry". Good times! ☺️

Here's an article in Estonian: toidupank.ee/events/heatege…

Education

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