Jojo
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Jojo

CD @ For The People in Sydney, She/Her

Named after a runner-up in a Finnish beauty queen competition around the early 80s. Not the famous Italian, kick-ass plumber.

A year ago

About

Multipotentialist working in the field of Service Design and Brand Strategy, currently residing on Gadigal land.

Work Experience

2023 — Now
Sydney

Leading teams and doing hands-on work for clients across industries, in projects that span from Research to upstream concept design, Brand creation, and identity systems.

2015 — Now
Service & Experience Design Lead at FJORD / Accenture
London, Helsinki, Sydney
2014 — 2015
2012 — 2014
Art Director & Graphic Designer at N2 Nolla Service Design,
Helsinki

Education

2005 — 2010
BA (Hons) Graphic & Media Design: Typographics at London College of Communication, University of Arts London
London

Awards

2018

Team award (Fjord, part of Accenture)

Service Design Award 2018 Winner - Fjord and West Midland Police

Projects

2023
Re-design of Banking App

Leading the design team in re-designing the app model for one of the biggest banks in Australia, with the ambition to play a more expansive role in their customers’ lives by going beyond financial offerings.

  • Creating an experience framework to help all squads/product teams make more aligned, strategic decisions (to deliver industry-leading experiences cohesively on the app)

  • Defining a new Navigation Model + approach to Information Architecture to support highly personalised/modular UI & UX

  • Helping the Design System Managers to develop the shared libraries and drive adoption of the system, gradually evolving the visual language closer to the North Star Design

2022
Brand & Experience Vision, with website design for a large Japanese Telco

Plug-n-Play Telco – Defining and designing a North Star Experience and a new brand suite of communication tools – so the product teams could implement a b2b platform for better connectivity and services.

2021
Product Vision & Strategy for a large Australian Telco
  • Leading the teams through Customer and Market Research to Digital Product Strategy

  • Defining & designing the key CX Moments to inform the product Roadmap.

  • Creating a framework to assess (ROI) and gain investment for a Design System team within the organisation

2020
Design System, Product Design & Visual Identity at for a digital Bank
  • Re-designed the customer on-boarding experience of the first 90 Days, as well as re-shaped the bank's unique value proposition to deliver on their brand promise in the next 3-5 years.

  • Creating a POV for the new operating model, while planting the Design System seed with a robust and suitable Information Architecture for all documentation

  • Coaching product teams and contributors to drive the adoption of aligned tools and shared libraries

  • Defining better collaboration/process flows

  • Detailed Design System Roadmap (and a prioritisation framework)

  • Helped define and set metrics to measure impact and progress of the Design System

2017

The Finnish Immigration Service (Migri) asked our team to help them define and develop better ways of working and utilising new technology in the best way possible to take huge leaps and to improve services for all customers in an equal and efficient manner. The vision for the ‘Migri Lab’ (which we rebranded as ‘Inland’ to free the teams to publish and work independently) was to ‘Make public services public again’.

2014
Brand Identity Guidelines at Finnish Post

Posti, the Finnish postal service, merged its logistic and business services brand "Itella" into the Posti brand.

As e-commerce and parcel delivery continued to grow, consumers and businesses alike had started to lean on the 
national provider less due to new competition and confusion 
over the two different carriers (Posti vs Itella).

Our small team worked closely with Posti for over a year, from research to strategy and then brand and 
experience re-design (both spatial and digital).

The renewed Posti identity is referencing one my favourite 
logotypes, an old script sign hanging off a postal heritage building in Helsinki, a shape not unlike a ribbon or a string.

We studied the long history of Posti’s use of type and worked with a Finnish foundry to craft a custom font reminiscent of the past, optically scaled with a focus on maximum accessibility.

The parcel symbolism is now at the forefront of the merged identity, and in 2014 the nationwide campaign was launched, reminding the public of the reliable and far-reaching, every person’s Posti.

2014

Outokumpu became the largest stainless steel company in the world following its acquisition of ThyssenKrupp’s stainless steel unit, Inoxum.

Our team’s task was to create a new identity and marketing approach for the company as it merged these two cultures, whose products were used in everything from the tallest buildings to the smallest spoons.

CD: Brian Kaszonyi
Design: Calle Mosander, Marjo Kaszonyi, Jani Sallinen
Moving Image: Aleksi Koskinen

2010

During my stay with HarrimanSteel I worked on the graphic identity of the London Fashion Week, which was housed under one roof in the neo-classical surrounds of Somerset House. It was an opportunity to review the signage and environmental graphics throughout the existing venue and bring ours in line with the London Fashion Week brand, communicating a clear and modern atmosphere with the choice of type, colours, and placement.

From the early stage of concept building to the day of installation, I worked on the way-finding system that consisted of colour-coded floor & wall vinyl, in addition to the posters and banners, making the venue of Designers Exhibition stand out strong from the event alongside it: the catwalk.

CD: Nick Steel Design: Stina Smith, Marjo Loponen, Sean Clarke

Volunteering

2023 — Now

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