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
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
Connections
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Industry
Information Technology and Services
Websites

Alberto LaCalle’s Summary

albertolacalle.com is a Spain based consulting and software design firm.

Our work ensures high-quality software with measurable performance.

We apply user-centered and usability engineering principles
to make your product more cost effective, efficient and useful.

Alberto LaCalle’s Specialties:

* Editorial content
* Functional design
* Information Architecture
* Interaction design
* Design and management of processes
* Usability evaluation


Alberto LaCalle’s Experience

  • Founder and managing director

    albertolacalle.com

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    March 2006Present (2 years 8 months)

  • Content and design consultant

    SERIKAT Consultoría e Informática, S.A.

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    February 2004March 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 2000February 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 2000May 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 1999January 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), 20082008

  • The Open University

    Postgraduate Course, Fundamentals of Interaction Design (M364), 20062006

  • Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

    Postgraduate Course, Object-oriented software engineering, 20052005

  • The Open University

    Postgraduate Course, User interface design and development (M867), 20012001

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

    Postgraduate, Expert on Internet media, 20002001

  • Tracor

    MFA, Master of Fine Arts and Multimedia, 19961997

  • Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

    BA in Communication - Advertising 1995

    Merits: 5 year degree plan made in only 3.


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Alberto LaCalle’s Groups:

UXnet, User Experience Network, Usability Professionals Association

  •    Usability Professionals' Association International (UPA-I)
  •    inusual
  •    Interaction Design Association
  •    UX Professionals
  •    AIPO_profesionales_usabilidad
  •    User Experience

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  • new ventures
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