Luca Mascaro

Current

Chief strategy officer at Dixero SA
Owner and Lead User Experience Architect at Sketchin Sagl
Board member and User Experience Manager at Phiware Engineering Sagl

Strategic Chief at IWA/HWG italy

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Past

CTO at phiware
Designer at phiware
Designer at infraprogis

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Education

Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana - Dipartimento di tecnologie innovative
Centro Scolastico per le Industrie Artistiche
Centro Professionale Commerciale

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Luca Mascaro’s Summary

Luca Mascaro, user experience architect, works on user experience and interfaces on web multimedia platforms dealing with training, publication and design. He writes a blog about these subjects. (http://www.lucamascaro.info/blog)
In 2006 he founded SketchIn, a user experience design and consultancy company, and now activities are focusing on mobile interfaces development and internet of things design. He introduced and is now testing agile design techniques. He is Phiware Engineering founder, a software house based in Lugano. Since the end of 2006 he has been leading Dixero's design, a Feed RSS aggregation service that vocalise them using TTS technology. Then he became Dixero Chief Strategy Officer.

Recently, he is studying themes like adaptable interfaces, multichannel based ecosystems and mobile geolocalization.

Luca is a usability and accessibility teacher at CSIA in Lugano, he leads workshops and takes part in usability and interfaces conferences.

He has a part in some international usability and design associations and in W3C and ISO work groups in the matter of interaction and interfaces.

Since october 2008 he has been organising meetup about user experience, technologies and entertainment.

Luca Mascaro’s Specialties:

user experience design, interaction design, user interface design, information architecture, information design, mobile, usability, accessibility, strategy

Luca Mascaro’s Experience

Chief strategy officer

Dixero SA

(Internet industry)

November 2007 — Present (1 year 1 month)
Owner and Lead User Experience Architect

Sketchin Sagl

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2006 — Present (2 years 2 months)
Board member and User Experience Manager

Phiware Engineering Sagl

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2004 — Present (4 years 5 months)
Strategic Chief

IWA/HWG italy

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2002 — Present (6 years)
CTO

phiware

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2004 — 2007 (3 years)
Designer

phiware

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2004 — 2007 (3 years)
Designer

infraprogis

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1999 — 2003 (4 years)

Luca Mascaro’s Education

Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana - Dipartimento di tecnologie innovative

Master, Advanced Computer Science, 2002 — 2006
Centro Scolastico per le Industrie Artistiche

Diploma, Design Multimediale, 2001 — 2002
Centro Professionale Commerciale

Diploma, Consulente Commerciale in IT, 1996 — 2000