Leonora Giovanazzi

Current

• Digital Communication Consultant at Y2K Communication
• Freelance webdesigner at /

Past

• Information Architect at Sketchin Sagl
• Information Architect at Yourinterface
• Project assistant and researcher at Università della Svizzera italiana

• Second Life expert at Seed
• Information Architect and developer at Poliform - Kelyan

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Education

• Università della Svizzera Italiana
• Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

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Websites

• My photoblog
• My posts on the Sketchin blog
• Where I work

Leonora Giovanazzi’s Summary

Leonora Giovanazzi is an information architect and works on user experience design and interactive environments for web and mobile.

Graduate in 2006 in Communication Technology at the University of Lugano (USI) she designed and implemented the website www.poliform.it, using this experience on information architecture design to wrote her final work of master’s degree.

Since 2004 she has been working as freelance webdesigner and since 2007 as information architect in Sketchin. She works on design and redesign projects for online communication platforms, social networks and portals.

Recently, she is focusing on identifying patterns for mobile information architecture, that she defines “digital devices ecosystems”.

Leonora is interested in photography and she publishes her photos in her photoblog, Frammenti di realtà, where she share her passion with friends and people interested in photography.

She is active on italian geek girls group and barcamps of the italian techology community. She was part of the organization of eTourCamp and ExperienceCamp in Lugano.

Leonora Giovanazzi’s Specialties:

Information architecture, web-usability, user experience, webdesign, web-accessibility, CMS and software opensource

Leonora Giovanazzi’s Experience

• Digital Communication Consultant

  Y2K Communication

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  March 2009 — Present (5 months)

• Freelance webdesigner

  /

  (Internet industry)

  January 2006 — Present (3 years 7 months)

• Information Architect

  Sketchin Sagl

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2007 — January 2009 (1 year 10 months)

  User experience and interactive environments for web and mobile designer.

• Information Architect

  Yourinterface

  (Internet industry)

  October 2007 — December 2007 (3 months)

  Information architecture design for:
  - Regione Lombardia website
  - Mediaset Social Network

• Project assistant and researcher

  Università della Svizzera italiana

  (Educational Institution; Research industry)

  January 2007 — September 2007 (9 months)

  Poliform website design and development:
  www.poliform.it

• Second Life expert

  Seed

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  April 2007 — July 2007 (4 months)

  Virtual environments conception and development for an 65.000 square metres island. Project created for the no-profit organization NoWomanNoLife.

• Information Architect and developer

  Poliform - Kelyan

  (Furniture industry)

  December 2005 — January 2007 (1 year 2 months)

  Poliform website design and implementation: www.poliform.it

Leonora Giovanazzi’s Education

• Università della Svizzera Italiana

  Technologies for Human Communication , Science of communication , 2004 — 2006

  Master Subject: The wooden furniture sector and internet. The Poliform case-history. (Supervisor Mr. Lorenzo Cantoni)
  
  Focus: man-machine interaction, computer-mediated communication, usability and accesibility for website and interactive applications, online communication planning, online promotional activity planning, programming (HTML, XSL, XML, JAVA, SQL), eLearning.

• Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

  Linguaggi dei Media , Lettere e Filosofia - Scienze della Comunicazione , 2001 — 2004

  Bachelor Subject: “Persuasive strategy and artistic elements in advertising”. (Supervisor: Mr.Alberto Bourlot, advertising theory and practise teacher)

Additional Information

Leonora Giovanazzi’s Websites:

• My photoblog
• My posts on the Sketchin blog
• Where I work

Leonora Giovanazzi’s Interests:

Photography, Web 2.0, Information Architecture, Web Design, Accessibility, Usability, User Experience

Leonora Giovanazzi’s Groups:

•    Sketchin labs
•    Italian IA Summit
•    Girl Geek Dinner Italia
•    Digital Signage Link
•    ENTERLAB
•    Università della Svizzera Italiana; Facoltà di Scienze della comunicazione
•    Italian Web 2.0 Experts
•    Digital Signage Italia
•    Intruders.TV Italia

Leonora Giovanazzi’s Honors:

Miglior studente del Master in Tecnologie per la comunicazione, classe 2005/2006, Università della Svizzera Italiana. Borsa di studio offerta dal Network di aziende ticinesi USImpresa.

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