Summary
User experience designer and researcher with over 10 years of experience in designing desktop, web and mobile products, with expertise in user research, HCI, information design, visual and oral communications, and management. |
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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2005- 2007
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Consultant, Experience designer developing and defining future services for the wireless environment .
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2004
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Nokia Insight & Foresight group. An internship as part of my Masters degree. I was working on future scenarios for the mobile space.
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1999- 2003
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Max. Interactive ltd. Co-founder and creative director of a digital products design consultancy, combining user-centred design together with a business focused approach to ensure that the design will increase the end-user's satisfaction while serving the client's business goals. My role was divided between operational work as a manager and professional work as a designer, design mentor and supervisor. I initiated creative processes, managed relationships with clients and supervised production
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1995-1998
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Zapa digital Arts (Today: Gizmoz Inc.), Multimedia company
- 1995-1996: Art director and interaction designer for CD titles for News Corp. England. (Including the Frankfurt book fair gold award winning "Makers of the 20th Century" CD ROM title)
- 1996-1997: Creative director, Interaction designer and content production manager of Broderbund's "The PrintShop LiveMail": a multimedia greeting cards authoring tool with visual associative search engine (VSE):
- 1997-1998: Corporate art director. I lead a team of Creative professionals and programmers, being responsible for Zapa's GUI, Company communications and website.
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1994-1995
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Graphic and interaction designer at Tyrell Multimedia - A CD-ROM Production Company.
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1993-1994
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Graphic designer at a leading branding studio: "Baruch Naeh"
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EDUCATION
2004-2005
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Masters Program, Interaction Design Institute, Ivrea, Italy |
1990-1994
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Bachelor of design(B.Des) In Visual Communication,
Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE
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1999-2001
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Adjunct Professor at Bezalel Academy of art and design, Jerusalem, Visual communication department.
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1999
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Adjunct Professor at the Interdisciplinary center, Herzeliya, Digital media program, (a graduate level certificate program)
Developed and taught design course.
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conferences and exhibitions
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| June 2007 |
Sketching in Hardware 2 , A summit on the design of/with physical computing toolkits , San Francisco, California, US (co-host of the conference, speaker). http://www.sketching07.com/ |
November 2005
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Communicating European Research 2005 International Conference, Brussels , Belgium (Invited to participate in a panel discussing the possible use of web 2.0 in communicating design research) http://ec.europa.eu/research/conferences/2005/cer2005/index_en.html |
| Sept-Nov 2005 |
INDEX:AWARD 2005 , An exhibition which presented the top nominated designs for INDEX: AWARD design contest. Copenhagen , Denmark , featuring "Circles of Care" project |
September 2005
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INTERACT 2005 , Tenth IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Rome , Italy , featuring BuddyBeads project http://giove.cnuce.cnr.it/interact2005/programme.html# |
September 2005
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MobileHCI 2005 , 7th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, Salzburg , Austria , featuring BuddyBeads project http://mobilehci.icts.sbg.ac.at/ |
June 2005
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APPLIANCE DESIGN 2005, conference, Bristol, UK
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April 2005
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CIRCULAR, event and exhibition by Domus Magazine, Salone Del Mobile 2005, Milano, Italy
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publications
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2007
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Debate, communicate, educate: New media channels at your service
in Communicating European Research 2005 , a series of articles and republished speeches from the Conference, Springer 2007
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2006
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Affective is effective: How information appliances can mediate relationships within communities and increase one’s social effectiveness in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, , volume 10, Springer-Verlag London Ltd, April 2006
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2005
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BuddyBeads: Techno-Jewelry for non verbal communication within Teenager Girls Groups in MobileHCI'05 Proceedings , 2005
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2005
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BuddyBeads: Techno-Jewelry for non verbal communication within Teenager Girls Groups in Interact ‘05 proceedings , 2005
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PATENTS
1996
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Registered patent for VSE (Visual Search Engine) - ® Zapa Digital Arts
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AWARDS
1996
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EMMA Award at Frankfurt Book Fair 1996 - Gold Award for Best CD-ROM of the year for "Makers of the 20th Century" CD-ROM title
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Contact me: Ruth Kikin-Gil - ruth@ruthkikin.com
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