Luis Alves

Current

Co-Founder at Gimmestock.com
Creative Director at Waveweb

Past

Graphic Designer at Business Directions Ltd
Computer Self-service assistant at Virgol

Education

IADE - Instituto de Artes Visuais, Design e Marketing

Recommended

4 people have recommended Luis

Connections

79 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

Luis Alves’s Summary

- Art direction of Web Design projects to improve interface design, branding, and user experience.

- Creation of visual concepts to be applied in Interfaces and web applications.

- Collaboration with multidisciplinary teams to develop websites and web apps.

- Researcher of the web best practices, web standards and usability.

- Senior webdesigner with strong skills in XHTML and CSS

- Web applications workflow designer

My Goal is to continue in the Web industry developing my skills and sharing my experience with others.

Luis Alves’s Specialties:

Experienced user of the following software: Adobe Photoshop (since version 2.5), Macromedia Freehand (since version 3.11) Adobe Illustrator, Flash, Indesign, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, QuarkXpress, and more.

Experience in sending design to print. Offset and CTP.

Experienced CSS and XHTML coder.

Perfect knowledge of the concepts behind Web 2.0 and main trends in terms of design and usability.

Basic notions of PHP.

Experienced mac user since 1994
Internet user since 1995

Luis Alves’s Experience

Co-Founder

Gimmestock.com

(Photography industry)

March 2005 — Present (4 years 10 months)

Co-Founder at Gimmestock.com and Designer of it's Corporate Identity, Website Layout and Application Workflow.
Creative Director

Waveweb

(Design industry)

January 2002 — Present (8 years )

Interface design; webdesign based in webstandards (XHTML / CSS); web applications workflow design; interface usability; corporate identity; graphic design; customer relations; senior web designer.
Graphic Designer

Business Directions Ltd

(Design industry)

October 1996 — October 2001 (5 years 1 month)
Computer Self-service assistant

Virgol

(Internet industry)

1993 — 1995 (2 years )