Niko Rantala

I’m a Finnish designer finishing an M.Sc. in Information and Knowledge Management, currently working as a UX specialist at an IT consultancy in Spain. My work spans service design, UX and knowledge management, which usually means finding the bottlenecks a company works around, then designing the fix.

The case studies here share one method, and I think it’s the closest thing I have to a creed: ask the people who do the work, measure before deciding and leave behind something that survives without you. It was already there on a factory floor before I knew the vocabulary, and it runs through everything I do now. Alongside the projects on this site, I design and build client sites in WordPress and Elementor end to end, security hardening and performance tuning included.

Away from the screen, music is what ties the rest together. I play the piano, and before moving to Spain I co-ran Hard Voltage, an electronic music event collective, from event production to the credential systems in the gallery. Music taught me dynamics, such as when to be loud and when to leave space. I try to bring the same ear to design, and this site is deliberately built like a concert.

What drives me is curiosity, honesty and an appreciation of things done properly. I work in English and Finnish, and these days increasingly in Spanish. Moving back to Finland in autumn 2026, Helsinki-bound and looking for the next stage.