Filipe Levi

Current

Data Collector at VRDRESEARCH
Lecturer at Faculdade Marista
User Experience Researcher at CESAR

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Past

Assistant Professor at CESAR.EDU
Usability engineer at Casullo Communication and Design Inc.

Education

Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Filipe Levi’s Summary

I’m a user researcher who has been practicing human-centered design since 2003. My passion is about understanding who people are, what they value and how they live, in order to design meaningful experiences. I’m actively engaged in developing a culture of human-centered design in Brazil.

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Filipe Levi’s Specialties:

Accessibility evaluation, benchmarking, brainstorming facilitator, card sorting, cognitive modeling, contextual inquiry, experience prototyping, expert reviews, field studies, focus groups, heuristic evaluation, information architecture, interaction design, interviewing, paper prototyping, playability testing, rapid ethnography, scenarios, questionnaire design, task analysis, usability testing, user observation, wireframes, Wizard of Oz prototyping

Filipe Levi’s Experience

Data Collector

VRDRESEARCH

(Partnership; Design industry)

October 2009 — Present (3 months)
Lecturer

Faculdade Marista

(Higher Education industry)

April 2009 — Present (9 months)

Teaching user-centered design courses at Marista's Front-End Engineering & Design graduate program.
User Experience Researcher

CESAR

(Non-Profit; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2005 — Present (4 years 4 months)

Conducted a team of designers on doing rapid ethnography to design a music buying experience for customers of a coffeehouse chain

Did rapid ethnography for Walmart Brazil to understand their employees' communication habits and design a game experience

Headed user research, paper prototyping, wireframe and card sorting studies for a worldwide digital cinema company

Headed user research, rapid ethnography and experience prototyping of innovative ideas for Samsung

Conducted heuristic evaluations and field testing in mobile games development for Samsung, including one for blind people

Conducted benchmark and analysis of execution times to redesign and improve the efficiency of Dell's CRM system

Planned the accessibility implementation of the Brazilian Central Bank website

Integrating user-centered methods, techniques and roles into the organizational software development process

Coordinating usability efforts and helping junior practitioners in many projects
Assistant Professor

CESAR.EDU

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2007 — 2007 (less than a year)
Usability engineer

Casullo Communication and Design Inc.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Design industry)

May 2005 — August 2005 (4 months)

Conducted paper prototyping sessions with representative users of a learnware environment

Filipe Levi’s Education

Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

MSc , Computer Science , 2006 — 2009

Designed a ubiquitous experience to augment conversational learning at the workplace

Activities and Societies:

Cognitive Sciences and Educational Technology (CCTE) group member
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

BSc , Computer Science , 2001 — 2005