Eduardo Loureiro

Current

• User Experience Design Coordinator at Mapa Digital

Past

• Interface Designer at Uni-BH
• Interface Designer at Fishing Web Wireless

Education

• Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais
• Centro Universitário de Belo Horizonte

Connections

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Industry

Design

Websites

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• My Company
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Eduardo Loureiro’s Summary

Eduardo Loureiro is a professional specialized in planning and creating interactive products that provide good experience for people.

His work is based on the philosophy of development of the user-centered design, which includes various types of research, analysis and assessments to achieve intelligent and unique.

Eduardo has eight years experience with web design projects and three years working on UX projects such as interaction designer, interface designer, usability expert, information architect and research designer.

Eduardo Loureiro’s Specialties:

• UX • User-Centered Design • User Experience Strategy • Visual Design • Project Management • IxD (Prototyping, Interface Design, Design research) • AI (Card-sorting, Site-maps) • User Research (Ethnography, Interviewing, Scenarios, Cognitive modeling, Personas) • Usability (Heuristic evaluation, Usability evaluation, Cognitive walkthrough)










• Experienced in Pencil/Paper, Visio, Axure, OmniGraffe, Fireworks, Freehand, Flash, CSS (webstandards), html. Mac and PC Platforms.

Eduardo Loureiro’s Experience

• User Experience Design Coordinator

  Mapa Digital

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  July 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)

  Coordination of the team of User Experience Design.
  
  Conducting research and analysis of usability; planning and implementation of projects focused on user-centered design; creating benchmarks, prototypes, wireframes and interaction diagrams; and planning strategies for projects, web sites, interactive products and systems.
  
  Has worked and works on projects for major brands such Havaianas, Volkswagen, Peugeot, Ford, Toddy, Itaú Cultural, Abril, Bayer, Coca-Cola, Nestle, Nescau, UOL, Ricardo Vargas, Takenet, Unilever, Adams, Fundep, UFMG, Assembleia Legislativa do Estado de Minas Gerais, Ferrovia Centro-Atlântica (FCA) and Globo Minas.

• Interface Designer

  Uni-BH

  (Higher Education industry)

  March 2004 — June 2007 (3 years 4 months)

  Responsible for creating and maintaining the web site, internal web sites, hotsites, intranets, online campaigns and interfaces of systems and services online of Uni-BH.

• Interface Designer

  Fishing Web Wireless

  (Internet industry)

  2002 — 2004 (2 years )

  Creation and maintenance of web sites (HTML, JavaScript, CSS), banners (static and animated) and email marketing.

Eduardo Loureiro’s Education

• Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais

  Post-graduate , Interaction Design , 2007 — 2008

  Dissertation titled “User-centered design and the limitations of the market for interactive products: Research and analysis of indicators for a balance between research and market”, 2008. Published and presented in 2º Encontro Brasileiro de Arquitetura de Informação, October 2008. Presented in World Usability Day 2008 in Belo Horizonte. http://www.designdeinteracao.com.br

  Activities and Societies:

  Fundamentos de design de interação
  Fatores humanos
  Estilos de interação
  Design centrado no usuário I e II
  Prototipação
  Usabilidade
  Métodos e técnicas de avaliação I, II e III
  Workshops de projetos de interação
  Workshops de análise de usabilidade
  Tópicos I: acessibilidade
  Tópicos II: tendências do design de interação

• Centro Universitário de Belo Horizonte

  Graduate - Bachelor , Social Communication - Editorial Production , 2002 — 2006

  Dissertation titled “The interface icon: Study and review conceptual and technological”, 2006.

Additional Information

Eduardo Loureiro’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company
• My Company

Eduardo Loureiro’s Interests:

Design, service design, type design, data vizualization, art, video art, interactive art, research, skateboard, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, photography, music, social behavior, politics, history, subversion.

Eduardo Loureiro’s Groups:

•    Interaction Design Association
•    Design Thinking
•    UX Professionals
•    User Experience
•    IxDA Brasil
•    International Service Design Network
•    Design Research
•    UX Design / Information Architecture
•    Alumni PUC Minas
•    HCI Researchers
•    Johnny Holland
•    Usabilidad en Latinoamérica
•    AIfIA - Instituto Asilomar para a Arquitetura de Informação
•    IdeaFixa
•    Design Estratégico Brasil
•    Design de Serviços

Eduardo Loureiro’s Honors:

Winner of contest ErgoList of inspection ergonomic of interface with user, promoted by Post-Ph.D. Walter Cybis and Ph.D. Adriana Betiol, authors of the book "Ergonomia e Usabilidade: Conhecimentos, Métodos e Aplicações". (Jan/2008)

Interviewed by the PUC-TV tv channel on program "Espaço PUC" about Usability in World Usability Day. (Nov/2008)

Interviewed by the Webdesign magazine about Eyetracking. (Jun/2009)

Interviewed by the Webdesign magazine about Heuristic Evaluation. (Ago/2009)

Interviewed by the Webdesign magazine about Bauhaus on web design. (Set/2009)

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