Specialties
My specialty is to create high-fidelity mockups as part of the user experience process, to define a consistent visual language throughout the product, to prepare detailed UI specifications and visual style guidelines. I’m a talented icon designer and I also enjoy doing some interaction design and web design. I feel at ease creating wireframes, illustrations and styling stylesheets.
Skills
Adobe Illustrator is my tool of choice. I’m also proficient with Photoshop, Omingraffle, XHTML and CSS.
Work Experience
jun 2006 – present
Senior Visual Designer @ Meebo, Inc.
- Designed visual aesthetics, iconography, buttons and other UI elements, created UI specifications and production graphics for many Meebo products, including:
- Meebo Messenger
- Meebo for iPhone
- Meebo for Blackberry
- Meebo Bar
- Meebo Web Checkins
- (new) Meebo Alpha
- Led the product visual design.
- Created templates for UI skins and data driven business cards.
- Managed external contractors for smaller projects.
mar 2005 – sep 2007
Principal Icon Designer @ Icon-King.com
- Designed original iconography, logos and websites for different clients, including: Nokia, Novell, Frog Design, Meebo and University of Bologna.
may 2005 – dec 2005
Consultant Graphic Designer @ SuSE Linux GmbH
- Created graphics and icons for Suse Linux’s community project Open Suse.
- Was sponsored 6 months to develop on Oxygen icon theme for the KDE project.
Open Source Experience
mar 2005 – dec 2009
Oxygen Icon Theme for KDE 4
- Defined the visual look and feel of the icon theme.
- Led the icon designers team.
- Designed folders, files, applications and toolbar icons in SVG format.
apr 2002 – oct 2004
Nuvola Icon Theme
- Designed a set of more than 600 open source icons.
- Nuvola icons are still used on software of any kind, Linux distributions and on important websites such as Wikipedia.
2004 – present
KDE Artists/Oxygen Team
- Contributed icons, logos, banners and web design to KDE and KDE related projects.
- Designed KDE eV logo.