Weeknote #600: Happy to work with friends
Tags: Culture, Weeknotes, Impact, Friends, Design

We celebrated! Happy Birthday Sari! Perks of a growing company: there is cake almost every week.

This is what else happened in the studio this week:

Heikki has lost himself in complexity theory which forces him to fundamentally think differently about everything. At the moment it is very fascinating but exhausting.

Helmi is immersing into the gaming world, working on new projects. It’s great to change into new perspectives in order to embrace creativeness.

Liam continues his work on a couple of consumer-facing digital products, wrapping up the UI of one and heading into early prototyping with another. He’s learned an important lesson: declaring the UI development “done” inevitably means you’re about to do more work on it 😄

Linda has spent the last month at client’s and the time has flew by so fast! This week has mostly consisted of finalising flow designs, welcoming new members to the e-commerce team and defining styles in Design System. At the same time she’s exploring ways to deepen collaboration and ways of working in order to create more transparency between people and things.

Greetings from Matti: Team Europe has been busy with NS International coaching and new research project we kicked off this week. Upcoming weeks we are running multiple research activities in Netherlands and Germany, focusing on trends and user behaviour around domestic and commercial heating solutions.

Meri was working remotely from Oslo and breathing some Norwegian air. She enjoyed taking some physical distance and can recommend it to anyone who needs the same to go relocate for a while to find their focus.

Mika has been helping the team in shaping new opportunities and getting ready for mapping some mobility journeys.

This week Monika got a chance to put herself into the shoes of those that use the service she has been designing. It’s been eye-opening to experience the service from “the other side” and she got plenty of ideas for improvements.

Petri has been designing aesthetics and brand strategies for a global payments actor and also — gearing up a programme which combines R&D and magical realism around the theme of 5G.

After a delayed return from Interaction 19 in Seattle due the ”worst” snowfall in 20 years, Sami has been gearing up to do some writing and prepping BD, along with pushing a few redacted things ahead full speed. The topics include brand frameworks, design strategy and machine learning. Fun times!

Sari has been doing some design checks with the developers as well as continued to think of ways towards more delightful customer journey.

This week Satu has been proceeding with her projects but also thought how stressful it can be when you have to plan something you can’t truly control. Having scheduled the calendar for a wall installation, which didn’t happen due to sick leave is annoying, and causes rescheduling of other things during next week.

Shakti has a full plate of projects that have landed. Starting with energy, continuing with mobility and next week starting to design futuristic apps for an industrial company with Junnu.

Teppo is finishing that NDA-project and learning about a new form of entertainment in a project. Fun.

Topias is concepting new logistics services and designing data visualisation tools.

And for me, Annukka, it has been a good week — the light outside is making all the difference. I have brand work on my plate, both the big picture and the details that make it happen. This week I’ve been mostly working on brand image concepts and it’s so much fun!