Alberto LaCalle

Current

• Founder and managing director at albertolacalle.com

Past

• Content and design consultant at SERIKAT Consultoría e Informática, S.A.
• Interaction designer / usability expert at hispavista.com
• User interface designer at Medianet Software

• Web Designer at Fundación Universidad de la Rioja

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Education

• The Open University
• The Open University
• Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

• The Open University
• Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia - U.N.E.D.
• Tracor
• Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Company
• My RSS feed

Alberto LaCalle’s Summary

We ensure in albertolacalle.com high-quality software with measurable performance.

We make products more cost effective, efficient and useful.

We look for long time partnerships and alliances to ensure the maximum value in strategic projects.

http://albertolacalle.com/services.htm

Alberto LaCalle’s Specialties:

* Functional design.
* Information Architecture.
* Interaction design.
* Internet Marketing.
* Content and accessibility audits.
* Business operation design.
* Usability evaluation.

Alberto LaCalle’s Experience

• Founder and managing director

  albertolacalle.com

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  March 2006 — Present (3 years 9 months)

• Content and design consultant

  SERIKAT Consultoría e Informática, S.A.

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 2004 — March 2008 (4 years 2 months)

  Functions: Identifying requirements, developing user model, designing and prototyping UI for interaction and validation activities: Produce storyboards, scenarios, flowcharts, prototypes. Direct work with final clients.
  
  Projects: Web, intranet and content management systems for bizkaia.net and ulma-c.es. Lecturer at European Software Institute.

• Interaction designer / usability expert

  hispavista.com

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  June 2000 — February 2004 (3 years 9 months)

  Functions: User and task scenarios. Creation of interactive and workflow processes. Design of user interface prototypes. Usability evaluation. Information architecture analyses. Functional specification. Quality Assurance documents. Production code in web technologies.
  
  Projects: All the portal channels and services with more than 3,500,000 visitors and 84 million hits per month. Lecturer for entrepreneurs at CEIN.ES

• User interface designer

  Medianet Software

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 2000 — May 2000 (4 months)

  Functions: Information architecture and solutions for usability and UI design problems.
  
  Projects: Web yearbook for the El País newspaper. BSCH intranet analysis and development.

• Web Designer

  Fundación Universidad de la Rioja

  (E-Learning industry)

  June 1999 — January 2000 (8 months)

  Functions: Collaborator in the first online degree in one public Spanish university.
  
  Projects: University foundation web site. Multimedia art direction. Content information architecture and visual design development.

Alberto LaCalle’s Education

• The Open University

  Postgraduate Course , Business operations: delivering value (T883) , 2008 — 2008

• The Open University

  Postgraduate Course , Fundamentals of Interaction Design (M364) , 2006 — 2006

• Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

  Postgraduate Course , Object-oriented software engineering , 2005 — 2005

• The Open University

  Postgraduate Course , User interface design and development (M867) , 2001 — 2001

• Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia - U.N.E.D.

  Postgraduate , Expert on Internet media , 2000 — 2001

• Tracor

  MFA , Master of Fine Arts and Multimedia , 1996 — 1997

• Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

  BA in Communication - Advertising 1995

  Merits: 5 year degree plan made in only 3.

Additional Information

Alberto LaCalle’s Websites:

• My Company
• My RSS feed

Alberto LaCalle’s Groups:

UXnet, User Experience Network, Usability Professionals Association

•    Usability Professionals' Association International (UPA-I)
•    UX Professionals
•    AIPO_profesionales_usabilidad
•    User Experience
•    UPA São Paulo

Alberto LaCalle’s Contact Settings

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• career opportunities
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• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
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