Questions and answers about the new Finnish Designers

All users must create a new profile on the new site. This is because the new site is structured differently than the old one. In addition, the old site contains outdated information for many members, and we want to update all profiles with up-to-date information to make the site as representative as possible for the fall launch and marketing campaign.

There are challenges with displaying references. The developers are working on the problem, and will try to get them working as soon as possible!

Yes it is. However, the designer search field will be added during June, because during May the Ornamo members are only supposed to create their profiles, and then presumably there won’t be many profiles to search for.

However, the site and profiles are public to all visitors immediately after their publication, so you can, for example, forward the link to your new profile immediately after publishing your own profile.

In the future, finnishdesigners.fi will use the same credentials with the ornamo.fi member pages, which will enable the member to have an even more seamless user experience between different services.

Instructions to set your password starting from May 24 at 9 am:

• When you log in to the service for the first time, you must first go to change your password on the ornamo.fi website. Enter your email address and follow the instructions you receive in your email
• After that, log in to Finnish Designers at finnishdesigners.fi with your email address and the password you just created.
• If you want to change your password, you can do so via the my profile pages of the ornamo.fi pages.

Ornamo’s experts will help if needed! You can book a personal counselling appointment from this link.

Advice on creating a profile / 15 min

We help you get started with creating a Finnish Designers profile. You get the most out of the consultation when you have your CV ready and selected 1-2 references that you want to present on the platform. E.g. service, project, product or artwork. Choose 1 picture for each and edit a concise text, 500 characters / reference.

No. A separate list of names was not seen to bring added value to the site’s primary target group, i.e. employers and subscribers. You can make your name visible by creating an author profile.

Yes you can. Everyone can create a work samples section in their own profile, where they can add as many projects as they want.

The following information can be added to each project:

• A picture
• The year in which the project was completed
• A short description of the project
• Link to an external page related to the project
• List of materials, tools or methods used
• With whom the project was implemented

Information about materials, tools and methods is also shown in the profile for all added projects. You can also search for projects in the author search.

However, the projects do not correspond to the usual portfolio format, rather they are meant to serve as an overview of the author’s skills for the potential client.

The website will have a public event calendar for the marketing of members’ events. Members can add events themselves by logging in to the site. Ornamo’s office reserves the right to delete events that are not part of the calendar or are inappropriate.

The target group of the event is the so-called big audience. Preliminary event categories in the calendar are seminars, exhibitions, product releases, workshops, sales events and open doors (+other).

The event calendar does not include Ornamo’s own events for members (with some exceptions), but they can still be found in the familiar place on the ornamo.fi website.

Yes and no. At this stage, the Finnish Designers page does not have an online store section corresponding to the old page. However, you can add a link to your own online store to your own profile information.

Yes, in part. The work samples section can also be used to present services instead of work samples. You can define the categories displayed in your profile yourself and add different service categories to the categories you define yourself. However, you cannot actually apply for design services separately in the search.

We will take the presentation of the services into development in the next development phase.

Yes, but the site does not yet have an actual company profile on the site at this point. We will continue to develop the site with regard to this feature in the fall of 2023, so that in the future company members could create a profile tailored to present their own company.