Interaction & User Experience Designer
London, United Kingdom
Interaction & User Experience Designer
London, United Kingdom
Manuel Lima is an interaction designer, information architect, researcher and founder of VisualComplexity.com - A comprehensive repository of complex network visualizations.
In 2002 he completed a 6 year degree in Industrial Design at the Faculty of Architecture - UTL Lisbon and finished a 7 month internship at the design firm Kontrapunkt, in Copenhagen, Denmark. In May 2005 Manuel Lima completed his MFA degree from the Design+Technology program at Parsons School of Design, New York. For this purpose he received scholarships from Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Luso-American Foundation and a Dean's scholarship from Parsons School of Design.
During the course of the MFA program Manuel worked for Siemens Corporate Research Center, the American Museum of Moving Image and Parsons Institute for Information Mapping in research projects for the National Geo-Spatial Intelligence Agency.
After 3 years living, studying, working and teaching in NYC, Manuel moved to London where he currently works as a Senior User Experience Designer at Nokia Design.
• Interaction and Interface design
• Screen flow and process mapping
• Information Design and Visualization
• Design research, usability evaluation
• System Mapping
• Network Visualization
• Information Architecture
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NOK; Telecommunications industry)
February 2008 — Present (4 months)
(Online Media industry)
July 2005 — February 2008 (2 years 8 months)
(Higher Education industry)
January 2006 — May 2006 (5 months)
Parsons School of Design - Department of Design and Management. Design IV – Visual Organization and Information Design.
(Information Services industry)
September 2004 — January 2005 (5 months)
Design researcher working exclusively on research projects for NGA – National Geo-Spatial Intelligence Agency.
(Design industry)
January 2004 — May 2004 (5 months)
Digital Media Internship. Web/interface designer and multimedia developer. Worked in applications and interfaces for museum internal projects.
MFA, Design and Technology, 2003 — 2005
Licenciatura, Industrial Design, 1998 — 2002
Interaction Design, Information Visualization, Information Architecture, Information Diffusion, Interface Design, Usability, HCI, New Media, Cartography, Complex Networks, Memetics
• Interaction Design Association (IxDA)
• Usability Professionals' Association (UPA)
• ACM SIGCHI (Computer-Human Interaction)
• Complex Systems Society
• Portuguese American Post-Graduate Society
• Mobile Marketing Association (MMA)
• Dean's Scholarship, Parsons School of Design, 2003-2005
• Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Scholarship, 2003-2005
• Luso-American Foundation Scholarship, 2003-2005
• Bronze Award Medal – New York Festivals 2006