on the subject of me

Vitor Lourenco is a 20 year old interface and visual designer from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is specialized in developing simple and elegant web interfaces, hand coded in W3C compliant sites.

Since August 2006, he has been working at the User Experience Team of Globo.com, the internet division of Rede Globo, the largest media company in Latin America.

At Globo.com, Vitor is responsible for designing and prototyping user centered interfaces for the company’s new products and initiatives, while creating and maintaining the user experience consistency.

Previous to working at Globo, he spent 6 years as a freelancer designer and consultant, a period by which he acquired a great experience in direct marketing for small business.

Vitor Lourenco

personal projects

  • FoodFeed
  • FoodFeed is a twitter mashup that allows you to share your eating habits with everyone. It has more than 1700+ active users and was recently featured at Wired Magazine.
  • Visit the site ›

specialties

  • Interface design, visual design, interaction design, accessibility, SEO, client-side coding (XHTML, CSS, JS) and server-side programming (PHP/MySQL)

interests

  • UX methods, ruby on rails, microformats, facebook/opensocial development, collaboration technologies, API's, mobile web and agile methodologies (scrum)

certifications

  • Certified ScrumMaster Professional (Scrum Alliance)

in the media

  • Appointed as one of the "New talents of web design", by the Webdesign Magazine, from Brazil (Mar/2007)
  • Mentioned as one of the first brazilian Facebook App developers, by the Folha de São Paulo Journal (Sep/2007)
  • Featured at the Wired Magazine Blog (MonkeyBites) with the project FoodFeed.us (Apr/2008)

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