Joonas Sandell

Joonas Sandell

Designer & Developer in Helsinki, Finland, He/him

About

Product Designer @ Freepress ✳︎ Crafting interfaces, design systems and products with a keen eye for good design and attention to detail.

Projects

2024

Crafted our brand and website, maintained our design system, developed our software and enhanced the overall direction of our product. View case study.

Brand & Website ✳︎ Biocode Design System ✳︎ The Software

2020

Collection of projects, primarily focused on websites and applications that I’ve designed and developed for a diverse set of clients. View case study.

Academic Bookstore ✳︎ Omoroi ✳︎ HW-Company ✳︎ Hankkija ✳︎ Hukka ✳︎ Rubik ✳︎ TAKK ✳︎ Finnpark

2019

I worked for Mediasignal over half a decade and was involved in hundreds of projects. Additionally, I was also responsible for refreshing Mediasignal’s brand twice. View case study.

2016

We were asked to create an extensive web service solution for Europe’s leading faucet manufacturer. I was responsible for the concept strategy, UI/UX design and web development. View case study.

Side Projects

Ongoing

User interface laboratory is a showcase of various UI component experiments and interactive design concepts.

Ongoing

Collection of old projects and various concepts I’ve crafted in my spare time. Although these are sketches, majority of the them are based on real projects. View case study.

Ongoing

I’ve been producing music for over a decade. This is my latest project focused on Organic and Progressive House. Managed to reach #1 spot on Beatport Progressive House Chart and Top 20 on main chart. Releases from labels such as Amulanga, Univack, Perspectives Digital and Manual Music.

SoundCloud ✳︎ Instagram ✳︎ Beatport ✳︎ Spotify

2016

Rebirth used to be "a starting point with HTML, CSS and JavaScript recipes you can copy and paste into your apps" but has since evolved to being a WordPress boilerplate.

Awards

2023

Portfolio of Joonas Sandell

2013
Honorable Mention from Awwwards

Moominvalley website

2013
Honorable Mention from Awwwards

The Piece of Heaven website

2011
Honorable Mention from Awwwards

Fullsize website

Work Experience

2024 — Now
Helsinki

Enhancing the overall direction of our product

2020 — 2024
Helsinki, Finland

Biocode is the carbon footprint calculator that makes sense. I crafted our brand and website, maintained our design system, developed our software and enhanced the overall direction of our product.

2014 — 2020
Tampere, Finland

Designed and developed hundreds of successful applications and websites for a diverse set of clients such as Oras, Bonnier Books (Academic Bookstore), Finnpark, Kia and Fair Trade.

2010 — 2019
Helsinki, Finland

My digital design agency mainly focused on UI/UX design and creative front-end development. I’m not currently freelancing but might be in the future.

2007 — 2014
UI/UX Designer, Front-end Developer at City of Tampere
Tampere, Finland

Designed and developed user interfaces, wireframes, graphic assets, and various digital products for Museum Center Vapriikki, Tampere Music Festivals and other city sectors

Education

2011 — 2013
Degree in Audiovisual communications at TAKK
Tampere, Finland

Awarded with honours

Contact

GitHub
LinkedIn
Dribbble
Instagram