on the subject of me

Vitor Lourenço is a 20 year old Interface & Visual designer from Rio. He is specialized in developing simple and elegant web interfaces, hand coded in W3C compliant sites.

Lourenço is passionate about everything that surrounds webdesign, from paper prototyping to high-end ajax interfaces. He currently has great clients, including Twitter Inc., CSS Mania and STN Labs.

From 2006 to 2008, Vitor worked at the User Experience Team of Globo.com, the internet division of Rede Globo, which is the largest media company in Latin America.

At Globo.com he designed user-centered interfaces for the company’s products and initiatives, including OpenSocial and Facebook applications and a social network for the Big Brother Brazil reality-show.

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.
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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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