Albert Lo

Albert Lo

Freelance Web, UX, Mobile & Interaction designer

St Albans, United Kingdom

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Education
  • De Montfort University
  • Stanborough School
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Albert Lo’s Summary

Having a strong mix of working on Agency and Client side, I have gained a wide range of experiences:

Professional and self-motivated UX/ Web Designer with front end development experience.

Strong organisational and leading abilities.

Constantly developing technical ability and expertise in digital media through self development.

Constantly observing developments and trends with online design and traditional mediums of design.

Flexible and dependable; capability to work part of a team or as an individual.

Hand code scaleable, cross-browser and cross-platform web-based (x)HTML, CSS sites. Translate detailed designs into validating, standard compliant table-less sites.

Confident, professional and approachable personality.

Versatile, adaptable and extremely quick to learn new techniques, methods and working practices.

Albert Lo’s Specialties:

Web Design, Art Direction, Conceptual artworking, Creative strategy, Graphical Interface Design, UI prototyping, Branding/Identity/Logo types, Mood boarding, Usability, web accessibility, CSS, XHTML, online retail, Painting, pencil sketching.

Read more at: www.albertlo.com

Albert Lo’s Experience

  • Mobile UX designer

    Orange Personal Communications Services Limited

    (Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

    March 2010 — Present (1 month)

  • Owner and UX Designer

    albertlo design ltd

    (Design industry)

    October 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)

    I work with Digital design agencies and Digital communications agencies on a freelance and contract basis to help them develop rich client brand experiences while working collaboratively and seamlessly across a wide variety of client briefs. I focus on delivering the right experience to the right people. This may involve brand development, corporate identity, website design and the odd front end development work.

    I also have a growing client base of my own dealing directly with businesses that need large digital agency experience.

    Contract/Freelance positions:

    Sapient (Vodafone - Dusseldorf) - Contract - 01/09
    Virgin Media - Contract - 10/09 -12/09
    INQ Mobile (Hutchison Whampoa Limited) - Contract - 09/09
    Unicorn training group - Contract - 03/09 - 08/09
    Cubecart - Contract - 01/09 - 03/09
    Unicorn training group - Contract -11/08 - 12/08
    Head London - Contract - 11/08
    Hyper Happen/ Naked (Part of Fallon) - Contract -10/08

    Worked on: Nokia, More Than, Russell & Hodge, British Gas, Willis

  • (Contract) UX Designer

    Salterbaxter

    (Privately Held; Graphic Design industry)

    March 2010 — March 2010 (1 month)

  • (Contract) Mobile Interaction Designer

    Sapient

    (Public Company; SAPE; Information Technology and Services industry)

    January 2010 — February 2010 (2 months)

    Sapient are the number 1 NMA Top 100 listed interactive agency in 2009.

  • (Contract) Senior Online Visual Designer

    Virgin Media

    (Public Company; VMED; Telecommunications industry)

    October 2009 — December 2009 (3 months)

    With almost 10 million customers, Virgin Media is the UK's first quad-play provider of broadband, TV, phone and mobile.

  • (Contract) Creative Lead

    INQ Mobile

    (Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

    September 2009 — October 2009 (2 months)

    INQ Mobile is a Hutchison Whampoa subsidiary. INQ Mobile is the maker of the INQ1, the world’s first Social Mobile and winner of Phone of the Year 2009.

  • Web Designer

    T-Mobile

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; DT; Telecommunications industry)

    September 2007 — September 2008 (1 year 1 month)

    Clients include: BlackBerry, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Disney.

  • Digital Designer

    Grass Roots BDR (formally BDR)

    (Privately Held; Management Consulting industry)

    January 2007 — August 2007 (8 months)

    Part of the WPP group, a top 100 company to work for in 2007 and listed as a top 50 NMA Interactive Agency.

    Clients include: BMW, MINI, Nikon, Verizon Business, Mcafee, Target, Grass Roots Group.

  • Web Designer

    Cardif Pinnacle

    (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Insurance industry)

    July 2004 — December 2006 (2 years 6 months)

    Clients include: Legal & General, Santander, Nissan, Volkswagen. Cardif, BNP Paribas.

  • Junior Web Designer

    Pinnacle Insurance

    (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Insurance industry)

    June 2003 — June 2004 (1 year 1 month)

  • E-Media Executive

    April-Six

    (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

    January 2003 — June 2003 (6 months)

    Clients including: Microsoft, Seagate, Gartner, Kalido, SSA Technology.

  • Intranet Developer

    House of Fraser

    (Retail industry)

    September 2000 — August 2001 (1 year )

    Part of a sandwich degree working for a year in industry.

Albert Lo’s Education

  • De Montfort University

    Multimedia Computing 1998 — 2002

  • Stanborough School

Additional Information

Albert Lo’s Websites:

Albert Lo’s Groups:

British Chinese Society, BC Project

  •    UX Professionals
  •    User Experience
  •    Freelance Switch
  •    Designers Talk
  •    CREATIVE DESIGN PROS
  •    UIDG - User Interface Designers Group
  •    Leading UX & UI professional Network
  •    User Experience Jobs
  •    Glug Events - More Notworking than Networking™
  •    Digital Minds
  •    Creative Agency Freelancing
  •    Mobile User Experience Professionals
  •    (The New) Mobile User Experience
  •    iPhone iPad User Interface

Albert Lo’s Honors:

BSc (hons) Multimedia Computing

Featured in .Net magazine (or Practical Web Design as it's known in the US) October issue (#181) 2008, page 16; Readers' Sites.

Graphic design interview from Just Creative Design, Designer In The Spotlight - 09/08

Featured on Hongkiat - 50 Excellent Blog Footer Designs

Featured on Design your way - Weekly 30 inspirational websites #13

Portfolio website featured on Best Web Gallery, Screenfluent, Design Melt Down and a whole host of others.

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