Alberto Casu
[email protected] +44 7414525927 +39 3498909016 albertocasu.com linkedin.com/in/casualberto I am a professional UX designer with excellent skills gained from both my studying and working experiences in Italy, England and Scotland. I have solid experience on target analysis, user testing and scenarios design and good experience in UI/Graphic design. I have a keen eye for detail and a passion for my job. I have an enthusiastic, reliable and creative personality.
Relevant Work Experience October 2012 - March 2013 Mid-weight Interaction Designer at Progesi S.p.A. Partial redesign of sardegnaturismo.it, the main touristic website in Sardinia (Italy). As the only Interaction Designer on this project I was in charge of: ● Competitor analysis ● Ui design ● Information architecture redesign ● User testing May 2010 - Present Freelance UX Designer Main clients: ○ Ales S.R.L. (Cagliari) - Complete UX and UI redesign of QuestionBuilderX ( an application for creating, managing and grading multiple choices questionnaires) ○ Mick Knighton Mesothelioma Research Fund (Newcastle)- UX and web development consultancy February 2010 - May 2010 Internship at Napier University (Edinburgh) ● Competitor and participant analysis ● User testing and user experience evaluation June 2009 - December 2009 Junior Interaction Designer at Linkalab (Cagliari) Designed a combination of mobile apps, webapps and e-paper around a Drupal cms with touristic marketing purposes in Sardinia. ● User interviews ● Competitor and target analysis ● Personas and scenarios ● Wireframes
Additional work experience November 2011 - July 2012 Customer Service advisor at Tombola (Newcastle upon Tyne)
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User interface localization consultancy Customer care: inbound and outbound calls, live chat and emails
Education November 2008 - October 2009 Specialization course in Interaction Design (Index - Regione Sardegna & Sassari University in partnership with Domus Academy Milan) Relevant modules: Usability, Prototyping, Physical computing, Cognitive psychology, Human-computer Interaction, Web development Main projects: ● BallQuest: a pervasive urban game, designed to explore and discover the underground or hidden monuments of the city of Cagliari ● Sardegna Digital Library Rooms Experience: a wanderer, scalable set of interactive installations with the purpose to bring sardegnadigitallibrary.it in physical interactive spaces during specific cultural events. October 2004 - April 2008 BA Communication Sciences (Sassari University) Relevant modules: Communication systems analysis, Interaction design, Human–computer interaction, Writing contents for media industry, Journalism studies
Achievements In 2006 I took part in a prestigious national marketing competition for teams, “Premio Philip Morris Italia” (premiomarketing.com), placing 8th. Additional skills Good: Adobe Illustrator, PhotoShop, InDesign Average: Arduino microcontroller, Wordpress CMS Basic: php, html, css Language Italian: mother tongue; English: complete work knowledge; French, Spanish: basic knowledge Interests Music, books, movies, tv series, travelling, videogames, technology, social networking
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