San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Sr. User Experience Designer at eBay
- Past
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- Sr. Interaction & Visual Designer at VuVox Network
- Interaction Designer at Freelancer (Self-employed)
- Interaction Designer at IDEO
- Interaction Designer at Meso (www.meso.net)
- Visual Designer at Estudio BijaRi
- Art Director at DM9DDB
- Art Director at Ogilvy Interactive
- Art Director Jr. at Hipermídia Agencia Digital
- Education
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- Interaction Design Institute Ivrea
- Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing
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Belmer Negrillo’s Summary
Belmer currently works as Sr. User Experience Designer at eBay. eBay has acquired his previous workplace, VUVOX, on July 2008. At eBay he already generated 5 patent applications for Rich Media interactive interfaces.
He is fascinated by design that is based on observing real user needs, design that is engaged with social causes and interfaces that have several optional levels of interaction, taking in consideration diversity of people.
As Senior User Experience Designer and Art Director at VUVOX, he designed tools integrate the complex requirements for the professional multimedia authoring market with the simplicity expected from online applications. An example is ‘Collage’, that appeals to photojournalists demanding professional ways to tell a story with text, photos and videos. ‘Collage’ also appeals to the regular consumer looking to have an easy way to create a visually appealing presentation for sharing media with friends.
As an Interaction Designer for IDEO, he worked on the development of interfaces and new functionalities for a Microsoft desktop application; an R&D project for light behaviors for HP’s home products; and user-research for in-store experiences for Nike-iD (customization of shoes). At the design bureau MESO, Germany, he worked developing physical interfaces using sensors and graphical programming to control video-based content.
As digital designer, he designed video clips for Brazilian musicians and conceived multimedia installations. Worked as Art Director for DM9DDB and Ogilvy Interactive Brazil, handling clients such as Lucky Strike, Itaú Home Banking, AOL and Honda Motors.
His thesis project, Mobile Seed, was selected as Top Nominee for the Danish design award INDEX 2005, in the category Community. Other winners included LINUX, Toyota Prius and Skype.
The following websites show his portfolio and recent works:
- http://www.mindness.net
- http://www.mindness.net/uxd/
- http://www.vuvox.com
Belmer Negrillo’s Experience
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Sr. Interaction & Visual Designer
VuVox Network
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
October 2006 — June 2008 (1 year 9 months)
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Interaction Designer
Freelancer (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Design industry)
April 2006 — September 2006 (6 months)
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Interaction Designer
IDEO
(Design industry)
April 2005 — December 2005 (9 months)
Worked in multi-disciplinary teams (with team members from areas like Human Factor, Architecture, Programming, Industrial Design, etc.) as Interaction Designer. Contributing with knowledge about technology and how users interact with it, having a user-centered design approach. Developing interfaces, concepts, prototypes, presentations and design guides for clients including Microsoft, HP and Nike.
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Interaction Designer
Meso (www.meso.net)
(Design industry)
July 2003 — September 2003 (3 months)
Worked in the development of multimedia installations that involved the use of sensors, videos and mechanical interfaces for clients such as Mercedes and for an interactive nomad sphere for the 2006 Berlin World cup. Developed projects using the software VVVV, a visual programming language, like the artistic project Interflux, by Achim Wollscheid for a public school in Munich.
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Visual Designer
Estudio BijaRi
(Graphic Design industry)
September 2001 — August 2002 (1 year )
In this small studio founded by 8 architects that don’t want to work with architecture, he worked together with friends in a very informal ambient. The liberty of expression and the flexibility of rules and schedules make Bijari a very good place for creation and cooperation. In this studio no one has a fixed job and the work is shared according to the expertise and availability. The competition is not the motivation and the new knowledge flows free. Worked as graphic designer, video clip director, video editor, scenography director, performer and VJ.
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Art Director
DM9DDB
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
February 2000 — August 2001 (1 year 7 months)
Worked as Art Director planning and creating campaigns, marketing and site actions, directing projects from the conception to the management of production houses. Managed teams built for each project. Also participated in the creation of the Digital Media Department of DM9DDB and implementing a model of integrated communication among all medias. Clients included Lucky Strike, Itaú (Home Banking), AOL, Honda, Philips, Lokau (online auction) and Americanas.com (retail).
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Art Director
Ogilvy Interactive
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
September 1998 — January 2000 (1 year 5 months)
As Interactive Designer worked with planning, creating and information structuring, as well as designing campaigns and sites for IBM, Telefonica, Globalstar, PageNet, Sul America Insurance, among others. Participated in structuring one of the first digital agencies in the country, integrated with a traditional advertising agency.
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Art Director Jr.
Hipermídia Agencia Digital
(Design industry)
1997 — 1998 (1 year )
Belmer Negrillo’s Education
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Interaction Design Institute Ivrea
Masters , Interactive Design , 2002 — 2004
Projects at http://people.interaction-ivrea.it/b.negrillo/
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Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing
BA , Social Communication , 1995 — 1998
Additional Information
Belmer Negrillo’s Websites:
Belmer Negrillo’s Honors:
INDEX 2005
Top nominee with the project “Mobile.Seed”
www.index2005.dk/topnominations/
Cannes/2005
Shortlist – websites
“Magic Card” :: Accor Hotels Compliments Loyalty Program
www.diariasgratis.com.br
Dos Logos / Die-Gestalten 2004
Inclusion of the logos “Bakedbits” e “mindness.net”
Mail Me! - A project about Mail / Fabrica 2004
Inclusion of the work “Peace Virus”
Illy Words Magazine/2003
Cover of the edition “Passion”
6ª Bienal de Design Grafico de Sao Paulo/2002
Short list and Catalogue inclusion
Cannes/2001
Shortlist – Rich Media
“Eye Test” :: Solidarity Literacy
One Show/2001
Shortlist – Beyond the Banner
“Freedom Calls” :: Honda Motorcycles
Merit – Simple Banner
“Fire” :: Itaú Insurance
FIAP (Iberian-American Advertising Festival)/2001
Silver - Simple Banner
“Barbie” :: Lokau
