Panu Korhonen

I enjoy helping customers find and grasp opportunities and solve challenges in their businesses with a broad selection of design methods, from strategic design and concept design to hands-on interaction and product design.

With over 40 years of experience, I’ve delivered designs that fulfill business objectives and that the users love. Recently I’ve led design projects e.g. for Terveystalo, Länsi-Uusimaa healthcare region, Kymsote healthcare region, S-Group, and Viasat, and led the design activities of Reaktor's GenAI team.

I value facilitating collaboration. As a combined hands-on designer and coach, I guide while letting team members excel.

I look forward to tackling complex digital design challenges to impact users’ lives and clients’ businesses.

• Concept design
• Interaction design
• UX
• Design research
• GenAI

• Design Director, GenAI – Reaktor (2024–present): Shaping GenAI business & skills
• Design Lead – Reaktor Innovations (2020–present): Terveystalo, S-Group, Viasat, Länsi-Uusimaa
• Design Lead – VR Group (2018–2020): Digital sales channel renewal for VR Group
• Managing Director / Design Lead – Nordkapp (2010–2018): Leadership and major client projects
• Chief UI Designer / Research Manager – Nokia (1993–2009): Meego & HCI research teams

• Environment Analysis as Basis for Designing Multimodal and Multi-Device User Interfaces (Ronkainen, Koskinen, Liu, Korhonen), Human-Computer Interaction, 2010.
• CHI 2003, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI Letters 5(1), ACM Press, 2003.
• CHI 2003 Extended Abstracts CD-ROM, ACM Press, 2003.
• The Expressive Interface (Korhonen, Dixon) in Mobile Usability: How Nokia Changed the Face of the Mobile Phone, 2003.
• Expressive Messaging on Mobile Platforms (Persson, Karlgren, Korhonen, et al.), CAST01, 2001.
• Optimizing content for mobile terminals will reduce bandwidth requirement (Oja, Tuomainen, Korhonen, et al.), Interact’01, 2001.
• Käytettävyystesteistä liiketoiminnan ytimeen (Korhonen) in “Miten käytettävyys muotoillaan?”, 2000.
• Predicting Text Entry Speed in Mobile Phones (Silfverberg, MacKenzie, Korhonen), CHI 2000.
• Usability Research in Nokia (Korhonen), CHI 2000.
• HCI Tradition vs. Information vs. Meaning (Korhonen), Scope Conference, 1999.
• Prototyping Mobile Phone User Interfaces (Korhonen), IST Conference, 1998.
• BIN: A Dimension Independent Image Processing System (Tamminen, Koistinen, Hämäläinen, Karonen, Korhonen, et al.), HUT, 1984.

• Intelligent Multimodal UI for Route Drawing, US 7,216,034; Method and apparatus for causing display of a cursor, EP 2399187 / US 9524094.
• A method and an arrangement for scrolling information presented on a display of a mobile phone, EP 880091.
• System for voice level detection during phone calls, US 7,142,894.
• Zooming and panning content on a display screen, US 7,075,513.
• Mobile station with touch input having automated symbol magnification, US 6,073,036.
• Group Communication Device and Method, US 6,757,531.
• Communication terminal with word completion, US 7,149,550.
• Systems and methods for facilitating/controlling shopping, WO200169414.
• Communication terminal text editor application, EP 1320023.
• User interface for a portable telecommunication device, WO200381879.
• Communication device with voice UI, US20040224717.
• Communication device with simplified UI, US20040224685.
• Mobile phone for voice adaptation in socially sensitive environment, US 7,142,894.
• Mobile communication terminal/system, US20060143297; Mobile communication terminal/method, US20060141945; Mobile communication method/system, US20060150070.
• Communication device with simplified UI, IN232319; LED user interface, IN230689.