Available for work
I'm Niklas Peterson, a father of two, passionate about design, technology and innovation.
Outside work, you'll find me cherishing quality time with my family. In my free moments, I enjoy exploring design and coding. I've created two iOS apps, Titls & Hydrify. These are personal projects that let me scratch that creative itch by seamlessly blending design, development, and tech.
Projects
Designed the Lummi Figma plugin with a focus on usability, simplicity, and ease of use, while ensuring it consistently reflected the Lummi web experience. Key features of the plugin include quick image insertion, the ability to randomly insert multiple images, and components such as the home feed, categories, filters, and creator profiles.
Designed and implemented the Lummi design system, ensuring consistency and usability across the product. Contributed to major features of the platform, such as filters, image detail view, and upload flow, among others, with a focus on creating a cohesive and efficient user experience throughout the entire product.
Designed the Musho website, including interactive elements and animations to enhance user engagement. Created various components of the Figma plugin and created numerous templates for different sections, supporting efficient landing page creation. Contributed to the design system for these templates, ensuring consistency and usability. Additionally, created flowcharts and wireframes, and played a key role in ensuring cohesion and alignment with our design system for a new project still under development.
Designed the UI for avatar selection in Buenoverse, crafting an intuitive, visually appealing interface tailored for artists, designers, and creators. The design emphasizes ease of use and flexibility, allowing users to seamlessly customize avatars with advanced tools and rich, dynamic visuals. I focused on ensuring smooth navigation, interactive feedback, and a cohesive aesthetic that enhances the overall user experience, creating a versatile environment where creativity can thrive.
Designed various components of Bueno's products, including collection pages, the minting widget, and the Bueno Drops Plugin (for Figma and Canva), creating intuitive, high-quality experiences for artists, designers, and creators. Contributed to maintaining Bueno’s design system in Figma, ensuring product consistency. Additionally, created marketing pages such as Pricing and Bueno School.
Contributed to the redesign of the VIP Monkey app for both iOS and Android.
Designed, coded, and maintained the iOS and Android app for Eurovision (Backstage), used by delegations, crew, and artists from 2016 to 2022.
Designed, coded, and maintained the iOS and Android app for Melodifestivalen (Backstage), used by delegations, crew, and artists from 2016 to 2022.
Side Projects
Your personalized iOS hydration app. Crafted from a need for better hydration, it offers intuitive design and customized reminders to ensure you drink enough water. Privacy is paramount with Hydrify; all your data stays on your device. With features like daily goals, flexible reminders, and iOS Health integration, Hydrify is dedicated to enhancing your well-being and hydration habits.
A template to get started creating your own iOS Messages stickers.
For those interested in coding, I've made an open-source repository to help you build an iOS Messages Sticker app.
A Discord bot that simplifies generating and formatting timestamps for your Discord chats! Timestamps shared via the bot will automatically adjust to each viewer's local timezone, so you don't have to worry about converting times for different regions. Share event details seamlessly and ensure everyone sees the correct local time, hassle-free.
A web app that helps you generate and format timestamps for sharing on platforms like Discord. With these timestamps, viewers will always see the date and time in their own local timezone, eliminating the need to provide different timezones to your audience.
Work Experience
I played a pivotal role in designing key products, including Bueno, Musho, and Lummi. My responsibilities spanned from wireframing and creating high-fidelity designs to ensuring seamless handoffs to developers. I significantly contributed to our Figma-based design system, enhancing consistency across all components. Additionally, I assembled interactive prototypes and strategically planned user flows, balancing aesthetic appeal with functional goals. My work not only improved user experience but also streamlined the design process, supporting successful product launches.
My focus area were designing our CMS, websites, and mobile apps for our clients. Besides designing, I also did a lot of frontend coding, including coding websites & apps using React.js & React-Native and further developing our CMS.
As a Project Manager at Shine Digital, I am responsible for:
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Planning and managing projects through sprint setup and ticket management.
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Leading the development team to ensure timely, efficient execution.
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Overseeing product development, with a strong focus on budgeting, time management, and strategic planning.
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Regularly communicating with customers to address needs, feature requests, and feedback.