Roskapäivä
A campaign site for Finland's grassroots anti-litter movement, where small acts add up to a national phenomenon.
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Helsinki · independent web & app studio
What if.. Hear Me Out
Everyone has a what if they'd usually talk themselves out of. Bring it. Hearing it out is the part where we start: your idea, our curiosity and craft, built together into something unmistakably yours.
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01 Studio
We're Wihmo, short for What if.. Hear Me Out. We work inside that moment someone leans in and says it: the pause where imagination opens and everything feels possible.
What we believe
Curiosity first, judgement last. Ideas get better when they have room to mix and collide, so every one gets heard out before anything is ruled in or out. Innovation here is a habit built on trust, not a slogan.
How we work
From loose brainstorm to finished production. Solid operational footing, real experience in entertainment, and one person accountable from start to finish. Nothing gets lost in a handoff.
About
Topi Ylönen
Founder & Principal DesignerGood design is mostly paying attention.
For twenty years my job was how a guest feels, most of it at sea. I led the events and entertainment on The World, a residential ship where a few hundred people own their homes and sail the globe together, and before that ran the guest experience for thousands aboard Royal Caribbean. It teaches you fast that a good experience is never one big idea. It's a hundred small things working quietly under the surface, and whether anyone still remembers the night a year later.
Now I do the same on screen, building websites and apps from Helsinki. A site is a room people walk into: a first impression, a rhythm, the one moment that matters, and a structure that holds when it gets busy. I stay on it from the first call to the last detail, and design for the second a visitor stops looking around and just feels at home.
Off the clock, you'll find me on a motorbike between Helsinki and the next ferry, on a padel court, or in a country I haven't reached yet.
If you're building something where the experience matters, I'd like to hear about it.
02 Selected Work
Recent
Recent
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Female Founders Suomi
A community and story platform for Finland's women entrepreneurs and the people backing them.
SignatureThe World Escape Crew
An interactive globe mapping a decade of escape rooms across 52 countries, with every score, photo and record pulled into one self-updating system.
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Tipsy Captain
A whimsical, pirate-themed bar and restaurant in Lahti, built around its events and menu.
SignatureChaink
A disc-golf companion app for tracking rounds, stats and your regular crew. Site and app, both built here.
Beyond the website
Party Padel
A padel-meets-fiesta event brand, run end to end from one site: signups, shop, sub-brands and live-event apps.
Presence
Pasi Paajanen
A portfolio and booking site for a dual practice, photography and therapy, built as two distinct worlds in one.
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Kultahippuja
A calm, gold-toned site for a psychotherapy practice, balancing three areas of care.
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Curiosity first
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“What ifs” entertained
03 Capabilities
Everything between
Everything between
“what if” and shipped.
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We shape how a company looks, sounds and holds together. It starts with a real conversation about who you are, then becomes a system you can actually use: a logo, a type and colour set, and the rules that keep it consistent as you grow.
- Naming and messaging
- Logo, type and colour system
- Guidelines and brand kit
Brand & Identity
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Design and engineering under one roof, so nothing gets lost between the mockup and the live site. We build marketing sites, content platforms and interactive WebGL work that loads fast, adapts to any screen, and stays yours to run afterwards.
- Design and front-end build
- CMS and self-edit admin
- Performance, SEO and accessibility
Web Design & Build
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From the first sketch of an idea to something you can put in people's hands. We work through product strategy, the flows and the interface, then hand over a design system the build can run on, for iOS, Android and the web.
- Product strategy and flows
- Interface and design system
- iOS, Android and web
App & Product
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Movement that helps people understand the page rather than just decorate it. We handle interaction, animation and real-time 3D, tuned so it loads well and earns its place on the screen.
- Interaction and micro-animation
- Real-time 3D and WebGL
- Scroll and transition design
Motion & 3D
04 In their words
Proof, in their words.
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We came to Wihmo with a messy idea and left with a product that actually feels like Chaink. The app, the data and the brand were built as one thing, not three, and you feel it every time you open it.
Founder Chaink ↗ -
The site sells the feeling in one second and quietly runs the whole event behind it. Every new edition we just log in, post the recap and open signups. Nothing gets rebuilt, we just throw the next great night.
Sergio CarreraOrganiser Party Padel ↗
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