ITAMAR MEDEIROS

Itamar Medeiros, from Brazil, currently lives in Shanghai (China), where he works as Senior User Experience Designer at the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Industry Group of Autodesk® — and helps promote Interaction Design as a local coordinator for the Interaction Design Association (IxDA).

Working in the Information Technology industry since 1998, Itamar Medeiros has developed several websites and interactive media campaigns, both as art director and, later, as creative director for several new media agencies in Pernambuco, Brazil.

As an Information Design specialist, served as board member of the Brazilian Society of Information Design, and held several lecturing positions including Lecturer of Hypermedia at the Department of Design of Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Assistant Professor of Cognition and Information Technologies at the Information Systems program of Faculdade Santa Maria, and Assistant Program Director of the Visual Communication Department of Raffles Design Institute at DongHua University, China.

Itamar was awarded with DISTINCTION in the MA Design Practice at Northumbria University (Newcastle, UK) for his thesis “Designing the User Experience: Creating Innovative Design Software Solutions within Collaborative/Distributed Design Environments”.