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Overview

I’m a web passionate designer. I love mixing technical knowledge with user experience designs and high impact graphic solutions.

Experience

Interaction and Graphic Designer

Ariadne
April 2004 – Present
Torre d’Isola, Pavia, Italy

Coder

FREELANCE
May 2003
Milano, Albacom
Created an online tool for queryng ADSL numbers from Telecom Italia Server.

Writer

FREELANCE
2000 – 2003
multiplayer.it
I made many hardware and software reviews.

Webmaster

FREELANCE
1995 – Present
Creation, design, content, information architecture, maintenance, search engine optimization and management of many personal web site.

Education

5 year Degree in Information Engineering (italian “Ingegneria Informatica”)

Title of thesis

“Ottimizzazione del processo di creazione di templates XSL di un Content Management System proprietario”

Teaching Experience

Instructor

XSL, CMS templating logic, XHTML/CSS teaching workshop to many Ariadne company partners (more than 20 classes).

Contact Info

Pavia, Italy
francesco.balduini[at]gmail[dot]com
gTalk: baldus@gmail.com

Expertise

Creative Direction
Information Architecture
Interaction Design
User Experience Design

Methods

Brainstorming
Product Testing
Prototypes
Site Maps
Storyboards
Task Analysis
Task Flows
Wireframes

Software

After Effects
Dreamweaver
Flash
Illustrator
MS Office
Photoshop

Coding

XHTML, CSS
XSL, XML
Javascript (love AJAX)
PHP and basic JSP / ASP / VB
Flash actionscript