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Itamar Medeiros

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VP of Design Strategy at SAP // MA Design Practice at Northumbria University // Founder of the “Design Strategy” Club on Clubhouse (https://www.joinclubhouse.com/@designative) 🌐 [WHERE TO FIND ME] https://www.designative.info/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/designative/ 🧠 [FOOD FOR THOUGHT] “Strategy and the Need of Facilitation” https://wp.me/p6F0o-hfo “Strategy and Stakeholder Management” (https://wp.me/p6F0o-hdJ) “Becoming a Design Strategist” (https://wp.me/p6F0o-bP2/). 👋 [ON CLUBHOUSE] “Let’s Talk Design Strategy”: Every Thursday, 11:45AM CET, encore at 08:00PM CET / 11:00AM PST “Learn UX / Design Basics”: Every Wednesday, 09:00PM CET / Noon PST 📆 [PAST] Working in the Information Technology industry since 1998, I’ve been a juror for several international design competitions, including the IxDA Interaction Awards 2016, the 12th, 11th and 10th editions of Brazilian Graphic Design Association Biennial, and the IxDA Global Student Design Challenge in 2010 amongst others.

I’ve helped global companies based in numerous countries (Argentina, Brazil, China, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Poland, The Netherlands, United Arabic Emirates, United States) create great user experience with my UX design and Management background of a proven more than 20-years track record in creating global products through the development of large web, desktop and mobile applications. During seven years in China, I championed the User Experience Design discipline as User Experience Manager at Autodesk as well as Local Leader of the IxDA Shanghai chapter.

As an Information Design specialist, I’ve held several lecturing positions including Guest Lecturer of Interaction Design at Köln International School of Design (Germany), Visiting Lecturer of Design Practice at École de Design Nantes Atlantique (France), and Assistant Program Director of the Visual Communication Department of Raffles Design Institute at DongHua University (China).

I hold a MA in Design Practice at Northumbria University (Newcastle, UK) and received a Distinction Award for his thesis “Designing the User Experience: Creating Innovative Design Software Solutions within Collaborative/Distributed Design Environments”. 🏡 [DESIGN STRATEGY CLUB] In this club we talk about the challenges designers face to influence product strategy in ways that drive design vision forward, and how to translate design insights in ways that business stakeholders can understand.

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