I am Maarja, an experience and interface designer from Estonia

I have recently moved back from London, where my most recent role was User Experience designer at Oliver Agency where I was working collaboratively on various projects for clients from industries such as insurance, education and consumer goods. Before working in an agency, I have worked independently on various projects in legal and wellness spaces.

I have spent a big part of my life living in London which has provided me with a background in footwear design, customer-facing roles in hospitality and corporate environments. This mix between creative and customer focussed environments, a curiosity about people, and about how things work, together with my ability to focus and desire for depth, help me solve complex design challenges and create well thought out and easy to use solutions.

Two amigurumi crochet dragons with big eyesTwo donuts with brown and pink sprinkles on a pink backgroundFeet of a couple dancing tangoRadio wave logo of Arctic MonkeysA person sitting on a sailboat looking at the skyA white kitten with blue eyes looking up facing the cameraAn unfinished jigsaw puzzle of Klimt's The KissSix books about design stacked on top of eachother
my resumÉ

Maarja Truu

truumaarja@gmail.com

Experience and Interface Designer

Experience

Oliver Agency / UX Designer

february 2022 - september 2023, london

Working collaboratively with a creative team on a variety of client projects to create strategic experience design output from conducting formative and evaluative user research, through to ideating and testing.

  • Help create a "Connected packaging" experience for a brand under Bayer
  • Working with various brands under Reckitt to improve their D2C website experiences
  • Leading the experience design for Barclays LIfeSkills website
  • Working with MS Amlin on redesigning the insurance company’s current website
Freelance / UX/UI Designer
March 2021 - february 2022, london
  • Working with a wellness studio to rebrand and redesign their website to help the studio provide information about their services and attract new customers
  • Helping a startup to create the initial concept for a contract analytics web application that helps attorneys and companies to gain leverage and cut costs when negotiating and drafting contracts.

Education

DesignLab / UX/UI Design

june 2020 - may 2021, online
  • With the help and guidance of a mentor, I worked through over 480 hours of UX design coursework and projects
  • Completed over 100 hands-on exercises
  • Completed 3 substantial projects

London College of Fashion/ Foundation in Footwear Design and technology

september 2009 - june 2011, london
  • Working with a wellness studio to rebrand and redesign their website to help the studio provide information about their services and attract new customers
  • Helping a startup to create the initial concept for a contract analytics web application that helps attorneys and companies to gain leverage and cut costs when negotiating and drafting contracts.

Skills

UX design, UI design, UX research, Wireframing, Information architecture, Prototyping, Usability testing,
Responsive web design