Company Profile: Idean Creates Smooth User Experiences
Idean is a Finnish-born, now global design firm that helps to turn ideas or existing products into something beautiful and easy-to-use. People often have a hard time explaining why a website or mobile application is difficult to use. They simply know that it doesn’t work. This is where Idean steps in creating a new concept and a strategy for the product or service in question.
Idean designs User Experiences (UX) for web, mobile, wearable, and embedded applications. Hailing originally from Finland, the company is currently based in Palo Alto, California, with studios and bureaus in Austin, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York, as well as in Helsinki and Tampere in Finland.
The company was founded in 1999 in Finland, and it currently employs more than 150 designers, technologists and strategists. Idean has worked with thousands of clients around the world to maximize the value of their digital solutions. According to Forbes, Idean has created a diverse, fun, and flexible learning and development environment. The growing Idean team of world-class experts is passionate about creating unique, cutting edge digital products and services.
The company has worked with a number of global brands including IBM, Volkswagen, Samsung, John Deere and Sony, and has built a strong reputation across Europe, Asia and North America.
Idean entered the U.S. market in 2011 when the company opened an office in California. According to the Chief Executive Officer Risto Lähdesmäki, Silicon Valley is the most competitive market in the world, but it is also where the most interesting clients are based. Idean works with big high-tech clients, as well as with local startups.
To attract new clients and employees the company has organized over 15 Idean UX summits to discuss the broader impact of User Experience design. Thanks to high quality speakers both from Idean and other organizations, the events have drawn a lot of attendees.
Idean has also organized Design Leadership Academies to teach participants practical tools how to take design transformation and leadership to the next level. Past attendees have represented companies like Wells Fargo and Hyundai.
The future definitely looks very bright for the company. In the beginning of February 2016, Idean moved into new premises in Palo Alto, California, creating their flagship studio on Homer Avenue, in the very center of Silicon Valley. “We are excited to be bringing together all of the Idean Palo Alto team in one space for the first time and creating our flagship studio. Over the last three years we have grown at a rapid pace, and this marks a momentous achievement for us,” Chief Operating Officer Ville Kurki says.
More information: http://www.idean.com/