Susanna N.

User-centered design and development studio to support innovative teams and startups in creating engaging user experiences at a fast pace. Specialized in advanced UI design and development in 3D environments and data visualization.

Worked as a senior consultant at Hexagon Digital Reality Innovation Hub in Zurich visualizing 3D digital twins of the real-life geospatial & reality capture data and using them for different use cases e.g. for the industrial metaverse. I lead the UI/UX of the team as well as actively prototyped and developed new 2D and 3D features in code together with the frontend team.

To improve product development process, I also created a design system with smart Figma components for designers and React component library for developers that was spread across the company and used as basis for the corporate-wide design system. All features and products used the design system components to ensure consistent look and feel and separating the visual styles from the code. I also advocated and educated people about UI/ UX and held tutorials for HxDR design system usage across the company. I also influenced in the corporate UX streering committee spreading the innovation hub best practices, design process, design patterns and tools across divisions helping Hexagon to build more user-friendly products and stronger brand image via design.

I worked with several HxDR (Hexagon Digital Reality) products such as Geospatial Data Store, Reality Cloud Studio as well as desktop and mobile apps. HxDR combines advanced visualization technologies, AI, and machine learning processes building immersive data visualizations based on high quality imagery from drones and terrestial laser scanners. 3D Visualizations can be used for example in development of smart cities, entertainment industry, crime scene investigation, game industry, architecture, and construction.

Tools: Typescript, Next.js, GraphQL, React, AWS, Cypress, Overmind, Yup, Formik, JavaScript, Storybook, Figma, Luciad RIA, WebGL, Stripe

Lead frontend development at Oyster Lab, which was a cleantech incubator aiming to make the world a greener place to live. The innovation lab utilized lean, agile, and design thinking in its processes while innovating, prototyping and developing new solutions for some of the hardest challenges on the planet. The main focus of the lab was on adjacent business and moonshots.

Together with the team we implemented user-friendly products from brainstorming to MVP to release in a fast-paced environment. The lab and whole Zürich office was discontinued due to a strategic change within mother company Alpiq in the beginning of 2021. As the only frontend-focused engineer in the team, I was responsible for setting up frontend architectures and global state management for software products, as well as building responsive component libraries and mobile/ web apps with the latest technologies. I also implemented one backend from scratch, helped with design when needed, and experimented with new technologies to validate hypotheses and find better solutions to problems.

Example projects I worked with:

- Juicar Electric vehicle subscription service to make e-vehicles like Teslas accessible to more people

- Claridoo Smart electricity platform to monitor and optimise usage of electricity in households

- GreenMyRide Carbon emission offset mobile app and related website to track, monitor and compensate CO2 emissions

Tools: Javascript, TypeScript, Vue.js, Vuex, SCSS, Pug, VeeValidate, Locize (CMS), Rokka (CDN), Netlify, Firestore, Docker, AWS, Klaviyo, Figma, NativeScript (iOS & Android), iOS (Swift), Rapid prototyping, UX Research, Personas, User Journeys, Business Model Canvas, Value Proposition Canvas, Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, Hotjar