Matias Duarte

Current

• VP, Human Interface and User Experience at Palm

Past

• Vice President Experience Design at Helio
• Director of Design at Danger

Education

• University of Maryland College Park

Recommended

6 people have recommended Matias

Connections

233 connections

Industry

Telecommunications

Websites

• My Website

Matias Duarte’s Summary

Goal: To make people smile.

I have been leading and motivating teams, and personally contributing to the creation of integrated multi-disciplinary
experiences for over ten years. I bring a passion for user centered design, brand management and marketing sensibility, and
thorough technical understanding to my teams and my projects.

I am well versed with consumer product strategy, user research, information architecture and interaction design, industrial
design and ergonomics, visual and graphic design, 3D modeling and animation, and game play system design.

Matias Duarte’s Specialties:

Experience Design
Industrial Design
Information Architecture
Visual Design
Usability
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Matias Duarte’s Experience

• VP, Human Interface and User Experience

  Palm

  (Public Company; PALM; Computer Software industry)

  September 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)

  Some real new-ness

• Vice President Experience Design

  Helio

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  August 2005 — September 2007 (2 years 2 months)

  Matias is responsible for creating an outstanding and fresh user experience across all customer touchpoints, products and services offered by Helio, a new MVNO launched in early 2006.

• Director of Design

  Danger

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  March 2000 — August 2005 (5 years 6 months)

  As Director of Design, at Danger Matias is responsible for making all aspects of the user experience a coherent and appealing whole. This includes industrial and ergonomic design of the hiptop hardware, as well as the visual, interaction and information design of the device and web software. Matias brings 8 years of experience designing user experiences and visual interfaces for consumer products.

Matias Duarte’s Education

• University of Maryland College Park

  Bachelor of Science , Computer Science , 1992 — 1996

  Additional concentration of study in Fine Art and Art History
  
  Dean's Award for Academic Achievement, Outstanding Graduating Senior

  Activities and Societies:

  Golden Key Honor Society, Phi Kappa Phi
  Revived and managed Student Art Gallery for three years

Additional Information

Matias Duarte’s Websites:

• My Website