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Wille Valkeisenmäki
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Product designer and design engineer.

I design interfaces and build them in React and TypeScript. I was oeksound’s only designer for more than five years, and I now run Mikebon’s ordering system on my own.

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Work7

The Mikebon tools side by side on pale green: the sales reps’ tablet with a shop’s T-shirt range, the office admin on a laptop screen, the warehouse app on a phone and the consumer shop on a phone.
Mikebon2025–now
A MacBook Pro on a blue set under hard window light. On screen, spiff with its depth knob and white transient curve, and the pink bloom window over its lower right corner.
oeksound2019–2024
Spår in a pool of amber light on a warm black stage: the desktop board as a flush grid of short serif notes drawn with hairlines, folder tabs along the top, and a phone showing the Inbox at the right.
Spår2026
A man at a forest lake shore, seen over his shoulder, holding a phone that shows the Nappa map in pale paper tones and moss greens.
Nappa2026
On a chartreuse stage: an open spread with a coral headline over pink wave lines and a grey illustration of an ear, next to the October issue cover with its coral masthead.
Aalto University Magazine2018–2019
On a rust-black stage: the main menu concept with a battered stars-and-stripes car in a dusty field and the menu items in condensed italic type, overlapped by the pre-race screen with its event panel and an orange Start race button.
Wreckfest 22024–2026
On an off-white wall stage: a photo of the installation, rows of brown laser-cut panels hung on jute rope in a wooden frame, beside a card with the Webs wordmark and its spidery mark.
Webs Art Forum2023

Mikebon

Designer & developer
2025–now

I designed and built a Finnish wholesaler’s ordering system: a B2B store, a sales tablet, an office admin and a warehouse app.

Before
Paper, phone calls and retyping
After

Shops order about every week

43% of orders are placed by the shops themselves, the rest by reps on the tablet

40%

faster order handling for sales reps and the office, with no manual steps left

Case study for Mikebon

oeksound

Sole product & visual designer
2019–2024

I designed soothe2, soothe live and bloom, and brought the older spiff into the same system. Engineers who use them include Skrillex, Nolly and Sean “Sully” Sullivan.

5/5

MusicRadar’s score for soothe2

“No producer should be without it.”
MusicRadar (Computer Music) review of soothe2, July 2020
Case study for oeksound

Spår

Designer & developer, own product
2026

Spår is the notes app I use instead of Google Keep. Every note goes to one Inbox first, and I file them later.

Case study for Spår

Nappa

Designer & developer, own product
2026

A fishing map for Finland that shows where fish are likely to be on a lake, and when, from open data.

100k

Finnish lakes and ponds on the map, for seven fish species

Case study for Nappa

Aalto University Magazine

Freelance editorial designer (part-time)
2018–2019

I designed the layouts and art direction of Aalto University’s magazine and took each issue to print.

7,000

copies per issue today, in Finnish and English

Case study for Aalto University Magazine

Wreckfest 2

Own proposal, then Senior UI artist
2024–2026

I worked on the menus of a demolition racing sequel as Senior UI artist at Bugbear.

Case study for Wreckfest 2

Webs Art Forum

Concept & spatial designer, in a design team
2023

Our team designed a hanging wall in Helsinki where visitors left letters for each other.

Case study for Webs Art Forum

Logos, illustration, photographs

  • House Abstract logo: a bold red H and A merged into one block shape above the name in red capitals, on warm grey.
    House Abstract
  • Kajo Records logo: a black D-shaped mark built from a rising sun and rays, above the name in spaced serif capitals.
    Kajo Records
  • Webs identity: a vertical WEBS wordmark in a high-contrast serif next to a hand-drawn black mark with thin radiating legs.
    Webs
  • White wolf head mark in profile with a few short strokes for fur, on charcoal.
    Wolf mark
  • Myllypuro-Seura logo: a red line-drawn windmill above water lines, with the name in dark capitals below.
    Myllypuro-Seura
  • Illustration of a Helsinki street in warm orange evening light, with a tram approaching between stone buildings and hanging street lamps.
    Helsinki tram
  • Ink illustration of a speckled dog asleep with its head on a laptop keyboard, the screen showing a chat bubble full of z’s, on pink.
    Sleeping dog
  • Black-and-white ink illustration of a young person in a cap and backpack turning to look back on a quiet street at night, beside a picket fence with a Japanese welcome sign.
    Night walk
  • Vector illustration of a glowing diver descending in front of a sunken arched temple, surrounded by sharks, a manta ray, golden fish and seaweed in deep blue.
    Deep dive
  • Narrow Tokyo side street on a grey evening: a lit vending machine on the left, tangled power lines overhead and a few people walking on wet asphalt.
    Tokyo alley
  • Low-angle night photo of a Tokyo shopping street, neon signs fading into the distance between dark buildings.
    Tokyo at night
  • A gazebo covered in warm string lights in a dark winter garden, a person sitting inside, patches of snow on the ground.
    Winter gazebo
  • A still rock pool between grey granite slabs with orange lichen, reflecting a soft evening sky.
    Rock pool

Experience

  1. 2025–now

    Mikebon

    Product designer & developer

  2. 2025–2026

    Bugbear Entertainment

    Senior UI artist

  3. 2019–2024

    oeksound

    Sole product & visual designer

  4. 2016–2017

    Mikebon

    Art director

  5. 2015

    Danske Bank

    Graphic design consultant & web editor

  6. 2015

    Genero

    Junior graphic designer

  7. 2014

    Energiateollisuus (Finnish Energy)

    Graphic designer

  8. 2012–now

    WV Design (independent practice)

    Freelance designer

  9. 2012–2013

    Aalto University Student Union (AYY)

    Graphic designer

The underside of a bridge at dusk, its lights and the birch trees on both shores mirrored in still water.
Under the bridge

About

Portrait of Wille Valkeisenmäki

I started out on an obscure Warcraft forum for custom games, making banners for other members and modding maps.

That led to graphic design studies, editorial and brand work, and then products. I finished my BA at Aalto in 2024 alongside my job at oeksound, because I wanted the theory behind what I was already doing every day.

Swiss design shaped how I learned to design, the grid most of all.

I’m most interested in how people work with machines. At oeksound I redesigned soothe for touchscreen live consoles, where there’s no mouse and no hover.

I build with Claude Code. I decide what gets built and how it should look and work, and agents write, review and test the code.

Away from the screen I take photographs and fish, mostly fly fishing these days. Nappa came out of that.

Languages

  • Swedish, Native
  • English, Fluent
  • Finnish, Fluent

Design

  • Product and interaction design
  • Design systems
  • Brand identity
  • UI for games and audio
  • Motion

Build

  • React, Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • SvelteKit
  • Node.js, PostgreSQL
  • Offline-first web apps

Tools

  • Figma
  • Adobe CC
  • Claude Code
  • MCP

Clients

  • oeksound
  • Mikebon
  • Aalto University
  • Danske Bank
  • SOK
  • Yliopiston Apteekki