Marcin Bober
Interaction designer
About me
I am a combination of designer, researcher, and geek. I received an MA in Psychology, followed by post-master program in HCI and I have two years of experience both in a company and academia.
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Design skills
- Proficient user of Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator. Able to create grid-based, minimalistic, typographically sophisticated designs.
- Experience in video prototyping and motion graphics (mainly After Effects and Premiere).
- Prototyping low and high-fidelity mock-ups with Visio and OmniGraffle.
Technical skills
- Building standard-based web interfaces using XHTML, CSS, Javascript and AJAX libraries.
- Experience in designing rich web and mobile applications in Flash and ActionScript.
- Basic understanding of UML / ERM diagrams
- Basic knowledge of server-side scripting (PHP), database query languages (SQL) and template engines (Smarty).
- Essentials of software development tools such as: Delphi, OpenGL, some Java (basic course).
- Physical and multimodal prototyping with Max/MSP, Phidgets, CSLU toolkit (speech interface).
Research and management skills
- Experience in gathering and analyzing user experience requirements using Rapid Contextual Design techniques (e.g. contextual enquiry, interviews)
- Familiar with user-centered design methods and psychological principles of HCI. Conducted usability tests both in commercial and research environments.
- Knowledge of experimental research methodology an statistical data analysis.
- Basic project management skills (PMI / Agile)
Languages
- English: fluent.
- Polish: native.
- French, Dutch, and Latin: basic.
Work experience
I participated in User-System Interaction program. I also worked in Human-Technology Interaction Group on the PASION project (Psychologically Augmented Social Interaction Over Networks). The project was sponsored by the European Union and involved 16 industrial and academic partners.
I was the first interaction designer hired by the company. I built the functional prototypes and web interfaces, conducted user research, and recruited new webdevelopers.
I was a member of a group which conducted an information architecture research for Multibank.
I was responsible for marketing research for an international campaign mounted to increase awareness of computer security among high school students. Our 5-persons team built a website which attracted 220k unique users, and over 200 schools in first 5 weeks.
I was helping in the following courses: “Usability testing for the Web”, “Application of computers in statistics”, and “Introduction to Computer Science”.
I was designing websites, intranet services and provided usability consultancy.
Education
Professional Doctorate in Engineering (PDEng.) in User-System Interaction.
Master of Arts (MA) in Social Psychology of Computing and Communication. Graduated with honours.
Honours & Awards
- 3rd price, Oce Student Competition (Eindhoven, The Netherlands).
- Graduated with honours from Warsaw School of Social Psychology.
- ACM/SIGCHI Design Competition (Wien, Austria) - finalist.
- Award for scientific achievements granted by Warsaw School of Social Psychology.
- Rector's Award and scholarship for academic and organizational activity.
- Award for the best research paper in VIIth SWPS Student Scientific Session.
- SWPS VIS Award and scholarship for excellent grades.
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