Jacopo Spina, Associate User Experience Architect

Jacopo Spina

Associate User Experience Architect

Virtusa

Location
United Kingdom - London
Education
Master's degree, Design for Art Direction
Experience
16 years, 3 Months

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Total years of experience :16 years, 3 Months

Associate User Experience Architect at Virtusa
  • United Kingdom - London
  • My current job since August 2014

Executing worldwide consultancy at enterprise level for global brands.

I provide SME experience throughout the User Experience discipline. Create prototypes. Reproduce visual recreations of product prototyped. Give guidelines, assets support to developers.

Run research as long as gathering information. Travel for client face-to-face business meeting and meet requirement workshops. Comprehend and apply business requirements across UX discipline at glance.

On spot prototype and UI representation. Supervising and tracking development process, also within worldwide branches. Advocating user building empathy with business analysts. Improving product by running researches, test and brainstorming session. Produce work-flows from multiple business sources input.

Often documenting prototypes. Presenting features/product from a development perspective as long as explaining the final result to business analysts. Cooperate with Engineering, Creative and Quality Assurance.

Associate at Virtusa
  • United Kingdom - London
  • My current job since August 2014

Executing worldwide consultancy at enterprise level for global brands.

I provide SME experience throughout the User Experience discipline. Create prototypes. Reproduce visual recreations of product prototyped. Give guidelines, assets support to developers.

Run research as long as gathering information. Travel for client face-to-face business meeting and meet requirement workshops. Comprehend and apply business requirements across UX discipline at glance.

On spot prototype and UI representation. Supervising and tracking development process, also within worldwide branches. Advocating user building empathy with business analysts. Improving product by running researches, test and brainstorming session. Produce work-flows from multiple business sources input.

Often documenting prototypes. Presenting features/product from a development perspective as long as explaining the final result to business analysts. Cooperate with Engineering, Creative and Quality Assurance.

Creative Mastermind Director at Freelancing
  • United Kingdom
  • My current job since February 2008

Working for major top clients all over the world such as: Mina Chang, Suren Manvelyan, Michiel Laurens, Linking The World, Diego Arroyo, Black Magic Marker Agency, Style Network, Philanthropy Kids.

Providing top notch work purely served with passion and creative mind.

Building architecture for infrastructures at Enterprise, and medium-High companies worldwide at most of the major industries of 21th century.

Head of UX/UI Designer & Brand Designer at Zerogrey Ltd
  • Ireland
  • March 2012 to July 2014

Design best of e-shop mobile, tablet and desktop Web sites (responsive & adaptive) for clients ranging from large international brands to small business companies. Create user-friendly, innovative and exceptional online experiences for consumer and business customers.

As a User Experience designer, i work within the front end team to visually build interactive wireframes, design visual interfaces and interact with the project - with an extraordinary way of thinking - applying ideas.
Managing and coordinating all the visual communication of the brand throughout visual and printed documentation.

The projects i work on often follow an agile development methodology.
Responsible to design, improve and show company Content Management System (CMS), design E-Shop, developing site maps, wireframes and documentation.
Daily task ranging from Above the line (ATL), Below the Line (BTL) and Throughout the Line (TTL) either interacting with other departments to build up client's visual communication.

Brand Identity Developer, Graphic Designer, Creative at IENA Studios
  • Italy
  • January 2011 to March 2012

Working as Creative Designer, photo retoucher and branding management.
My priority was to talk with the client, making the whole process of design and creation happen.
Most of time my identity was a prior to the agency, since i always needed to talk mainly with the client and realise the whole idea.
Worked in a team and most of time cooperated with famous music video and photo retouch.

Specialties:
Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, After Effects, Cinema 4D, Lightroom.

Education

Master's degree, Design for Art Direction
  • at University of Arts London
  • October 2021

MA Design for Art Direction at London College of Communication gives visual communicators and designers the practical, critical and conceptual skills to develop their potential in the field of art direction.

High school or equivalent,
  • at School of Arts
  • July 2009

School of Arts Diploma, 2005 - 2009

High school or equivalent, design
  • at ANJA Academy
  • January 2009

ANJA Academy Adobe Training, 2009 High school of design and architecture Prometheo

Specialties & Skills

Problem Solving
User Interface Design
Cinema 4D
Execution Skills
Adobe Photoshop
Branding
Information Architecture
Team leading
PACKAGING
Adobe Suite (5/5)
Presentation
User Experience
Usability
Creative Direction

Languages

Italian
Expert
English
Expert

Hobbies

  • Painting
  • Reading
  • Walking
  • Acting