Tuuli Saarinen Email & Phone Number

Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

Unicorn Pirates Studio | April - June 2020UX Design consultation and mentoring on an upcoming release.10th Muse | March - April 2020UX Design consultation on the Sana Interactive Stories app and an unannounced release.

Helsinki Area, Finland

In charge of designing Puida's CreaOps services and the Puida platform. I created a product development plan, facilitated workshops, and researched user needs at our pilot companies, as well as created user flows and wireframes.

Toronto, Canada Area

A strategy/combat MMO about the effects of war. Designed the logic and user experience of the game's insight engine, and consulted on the overall UX and UI of the game. The game is currently in development.

Montreal, Canada Area

UX Designer on the top grossing poker app, World Series of Poker. In charge of designing new features and improving existing ones. Collaborated with teams across the company and oversaw user research.Main achievements include designing the user experience for the popular Clubs feature, and measurably increasing the lifetime value of players by redesigning.

Play for Reward (University of Turku / Centre for Collaborative Research), 08/2014 - 12/2014Game design consultant and research assistant on a multi-disciplinary research project looking at using games for brain injury rehabilitation. Researched design models and worked as a liaison between the research project and relevant parties in the health games.

Montreal, Canada Area

Was selected into the residency from 100 applicants. Designed four different experimental projects during the month-long prototyping phase. Focused on Scapegoats as the final project: designed the core gameplay and user experience, wrote the story, and designed and implemented the UI layout as well as created the UI art for the game in 4 weeks.

Montreal, Canada Area

Designer of the company's own game IPs and third party titles, including the award winning social impact game, Get Water!. Led the company's game design workshops.

Tampere, Finland

Games and Innovation (GaIn):Research project investigating trends within the game industry. Results published in the paper “Changing Trends: Game Industry Trends in 2009” in the book Changing Faces of Game Innovation. The book can be downloaded as a PDF from here: http://tampub.uta.fi/handle/10024/65641Game Industry Innovation Processes (GIIP):Research.

Finland

Wrote articles for the physical and online issues of the game magazine, and wrote regular blog for the online publication during my stay in Japan from 2008 to 2009.

Finland

Designer and producer of Mindplane, a prototype for an EEG controlled endless runner game exploring the potential of mind controlled games.

Pori Area, Finland

Co-designer, game master, and community manager of Juhana Herttuan Aikakapseli, an alternate reality hybrid adventure game. The game ran through the full year of the City of Pori's 450's anniversary celebrations.

Master Of Arts - Ma, New Media Design And Production

Focusing on interactive installation art, minor is in Set Design.

Master Of Science, Game Research / Interactive Media

I wrote my Master's Thesis about designing emotion in video games. The thesis can be downloaded here: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:uta-1-22095

Bachelor Of Arts, Digital Culture

Exchange Studies, Japanese