Alexander Ivanov
UI Designer/Information Architect
Summary
5+ years' experience with WEB- and WAP-design.
3+ years' experience wint interaction design and designing interfaces.
1+ year of experience with conducting user research and testing design solutions.
Objective
Education
september 2000 — february 2006
Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (State University)
Master's degree in computer design of materials department of materials science of the faculty of physics and economics of high technologies)
Career highlights
september 2005 — present Inform-mobil (IT/Telecom), interface designer, researcher Duties
- Corporate usability guidelines development.
- Designing WEB, WAP 2.0, and DSTK interfaces.
- Performing usability tests of WEB, WAP 2.0 and DSTK interfaces.
- Writing recommendation reports based on research.
- Co-ordination of a group of graphic- and web-designers when interfaces for huge projects are being made.
Achievements
- Elaborated the corporate guidelines for usability and appearance of WEB and WAP 2.0 interfaces. Also, under my control a group of graphic-designers worked out standards of appearance of company interfaces and set of templates. Thus developers could work out good interfaces only by following guidelines and appearance standarts and by using templates, without any usability specialist's or graphic-designer's aid.
- Worked out checklists to verify accordance of the company's WEB and WAP 2.0 interfaces to usability guidelines and standarts of appearance. The list consists of over than 70 simple questions with only three possible answers: «yes», «no» and «N/A», so any employee, even office-cleaner can conduct a verification.
- Applicated user centered design concept into the working cycle of the company.
- Created interfaces of some wap 2.0 and web projects for the biggest telecom companies in Russia — Mobile Tele Systems, VimpelCom and SkyLink.
- Designed mobile BREW application “SkyContent” (file manager with ability to purchase data files over the internet).
february 2005 — september 2005 Studio-Svet, senior web-designer Duties
- Web sites designing.
- Team-leadership, coordination of web-site development process.
Achievements
- www.p4b.ru
- www.transportair.ru
- www.te-ka.ru
- www.bashkirova-partners.ru (including flash and action scripting)
- www.askon-m.ru
january 2004 — present Live Color Studio, Self employed Duties
Основная задача информационного архитектора – отразить желания заказчиков в реально технически выполнимые требования, продумать принципы реализации этих требований, выполнить все поставленные задачи качественно и в срок.
Помимо хорошей функциональности проекта, над которым работает архитектор-проектировщик, также важен его внешний вид и удобство в использовании. Соответственно, резюме соискателя на эту должность в первую очередь должно описывать опыт работы, успехи и наработки, а также личные качества специалиста, необходимые для этой профессии.