About

My name is Gustavo Gawryszewski, I am interaction designer with 6 years of industry experience designing and developing interactive solutions. Working on multidisciplinary teams, deadline-driven, project oriented in user centered design process. Experience making flow and process diagrams, web authoring (XHTML, CSS), user interface usability, information architecture. Good visual and creative skills with strong analytical, organizational and communication sense.

Work Experience

August 2008 - Present

Interaction Designer at Modulo Security Solutions

• Responsible for User Research and Interaction Design for the company's main product

January 2007 - August 2008

User Experience Analyst at Sirius Interativa

• Responsible for User Research, Information Architecture, and Interface Design of Unimed Rio de Janeiro?s branch, the leader health care company in Brazil
• Working in a UX group of 4 contributors Collaborated closely with Product Management to define overall user experience
• Worked jointly with Web Authoring teams to implement the best solutions
• Delivered workflows, schematics, wireframes, mock-ups, and prototypes, content inventory, benchmark studies used to integrate best practices into interfaces.

August 2006 - December 2006

Information Architect at Addcomm

• Responsible for Information Architecture, UI specifications, and Research for companies including: Nissan, Proctor and Gamble, Aracruz (World?s leading producer of bleached eucalyptus pulp).
• Delivered wireframes, flow diagrams, content inventory.

July 2005 - July 2006

Web Designer at Tecnopop

• Responsible for Designing and Implementing XHTML/CSS and Flash websites for clients like Utopus architecture and interior design company from NY and London, Sarah Kell photographer from NY, Overmundo (Prix Ars Eletronica winner 2006) etc.

September 2004 - June 2005

Art Direction Assistant at Quintiliano Comunicações

• Responsible for designing and creating concepts for online campaigns for clients like Prezunic (Supermarket industry) and Camponata (Cheese industry).

March 2003 - February 2004

Intership in Webdesign at Ability

• Responsible for designing and implementing 2 projects, Torpedo that is a website for finding dates and BemLeve, a web service for helping persons to lose weight

Education

January 2007 - December 2011 (expected)

BS, Psychology at Universidade Estácio de Sá

October 2008

User research techniques at Centro Universitário da Cidade

May 2007 - June 2007

Project Management at Centro Universitário da Cidade

September 2007

HCI Methodologies and Tools at 1st International School on Methodologies and Tools for Human-Computer Interaction

The school was separated in three courses:

• HCI Design Methods in Semiotic Engineering
  Lecturer: Simone D.J. Barbosa (PUC Rio, Brazil)
• Methodologies for the Formal Analysis of Human-computer Interaction
  Lecturer: Antonio Cerone (IIST, United Nations University, Macau SAR China)
• Model-based Approaches for the Design of Safety Critical Interactive Systems
  Lecturer: Philippe Palanque (LIIHS-IRIT, University of Toulouse III, France)

June 2006

Usability of web interfaces at iLearn

March 2006 - April 2006

Webwriting and Information Architecture at Faculdades Integradas Hélio Alonso

January 2006

Art Direction in Advertising at Faculdades Integradas Hélio Alonso

Skills:

• Good working experience making clean, simple, and intuitive user interfaces
• Good experience in user-generated content and community-driven online businesses
• Considerable experience in user research and usability testing techniques such as Field studies, Card Sorting, Surveys, Cognitive Walkthrough, Heuristic Evaluation, etc
• Skilled at balancing business goals with user needs while minding technical limitations
• Advanced knowledge of: CSS, (D)HTML, Javascript, XHTML, PHP and MySQL
• Experience designing for Flash-based and AJAX-based Rich Internet Applications
• Considerable presentation layer implementation experience
• Understand real-world tradeoffs between desired features and implementation time
• Quite familiar with the limits and constraints of design for the Web
• Comfortable in fast-paced environments and enjoy having fun while working smart
• Proficient in Visio, Photoshop, Fireworks, Flash, HomeSite, PowerPoint, InDesign, and other UI Tools