Filipe Levi

Current

• User researcher at CESAR

Past

• Usability engineer at Casullo Communication and Design Inc.

Education

• Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
• Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Website
• My Company

Filipe Levi’s Summary

I’m a user researcher who has been practicing human-centered design since 2003. My passion is about understanding who people are, what they value and how they live, in order to design meaningful experiences. I’m actively engaged in developing a culture of human-centered design in Brazil.

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Filipe Levi’s Specialties:

Accessibility evaluation, benchmarking, brainstorming facilitator, card sorting, cognitive modeling, contextual inquiry, experience prototyping, expert reviews, field studies, focus groups, heuristic evaluation, information architecture, interaction design, interviewing, paper prototyping, playability testing, rapid ethnography, scenarios, questionnaire design, task analysis, usability testing, user observation, wireframes, Wizard of Oz prototyping

Filipe Levi’s Experience

• User researcher

  CESAR

  (Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 2005 — Present (3 years 2 months)

  Conducted a team of designers on doing rapid ethnography to design a music buying experience for customers of a coffeehouse chain
  
  Did rapid ethnography for Walmart Brazil to understand their employees' communication habits and design a game experience
  
  Headed user research, paper prototyping, wireframe and card sorting studies for a worldwide digital cinema company
  
  Headed user research, rapid ethnography and experience prototyping of innovative ideas for Samsung
  
  Conducted heuristic evaluations and field testing in mobile games development for Samsung, including one for blind people
  
  Conducted benchmark and analysis of execution times to redesign and improve the efficiency of Dell's CRM system
  
  Planned the accessibility implementation of the Brazilian Central Bank website
  
  Integrating user-centered methods, techniques and roles into the organizational software development process
  
  Coordinating usability efforts and helping junior practitioners in many projects

• Usability engineer

  Casullo Communication and Design Inc.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Design industry)

  May 2005 — August 2005 (4 months)

  Conducted paper prototyping sessions with representative users of a learnware environment

Filipe Levi’s Education

• Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

  MSc, Computer Science, 2006 — 2008

  Designing a ubiquitous system to augment conversational learning at the workplace

  Activities and Societies:

  Cognitive Sciences and Educational Technology (CCTE) group member

• Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

  BSc, Computer Science, 2001 — 2005

Additional Information

Filipe Levi’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company

Filipe Levi’s Interests:

User Experience Research, Usability Engineering, Human-Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous Computing

Filipe Levi’s Groups:

UXnet local ambassador, UXrecife member, CCTE researcher

•    User Experience Network
•    UXrecife
•    Interaction Design Association
•    UFPE - Center of Informatics Alumni
•    User Experience
•    Design Research
•    Brazilian Computing Society
•    C.E.S.A.R - Recife Center for Advanced Studies and Systems
•    Usabilidad en Latinoamérica

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