General Info
My name is Ricardo Henriques, I am 33 years old and I live in London in the United Kingdom.
I am a Web Designer with a Communication Design & Hypermedia Bachelor’s Degree from a Public Portuguese University and I have extensive experience in Icon, UI, UX, XHTML and CSS.
I have worked until recently with the London based Tixdaq.com as a senior Visual & UX designer. It was an amazing experience to help develop and mature the Fanatix product lines specially the iOS products where I was responsible for the Visual & UX design.
Before the London based Fanatix I had the pleasure to work in great places like the amazing Studio 24, a web design agency in Cambridge UK and Webgami in Portugal.
Besides my work, I love to surf, play guitar, spend time with my wife and new born daughter, family and friends. I love to travel, specially surf trips in warm exotic places!
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Profile
Born in September 1977 in Aveiro, Portugal. Male, Married, Accredited Driver.
Good communication skills, extremely creative. Experienced Web & UI designer, user experience and interaction. Passionate about all things internet.
Speaks French, Spanish, English and Portuguese.
Working Experience
Senior Visual & UX Designer, Tixdaq.com, London, UK – 15/08/2011 – 30/03/2012
Design the user experience and user interface for the fanatix.com product across the diverse platforms, browsers, iOS iPhone and iOS iPad. This includes Icon, UX, UI and Web design.
Web Designer & build, Studio 24, Cambridge, UK — 12/04/2010 – 21/07/2011
Coordinating web projects, Designing and implementing graphic user interfaces.
Design and coordinate the production of intranets and websites for organizations, e-commerce sites, CMSs / CRMs. XHTML and CSS expertise.
Web Design & build, Webgami, Portugal — 03/01/2004-02/01/2010
Account managing, customer relations and sales. Coordinating web projects, Designing and implementing graphic user interfaces.
Designed and coordinated the production of intranets for international organizations, e-commerce sites, CMSs / CRMs. XHTML and CSS expertise.
Web Designer, Moving graphics animator, Media Kinetics, The Netherlands — 2002-2003
Designed graphic user interfaces, iconography and moving graphics.
Graphic & Web Designer, Social Security Ministry of Portugal, Portugal — 2000-2001
Integrated the Marketing Department of the institution. Several tasks as Graphic Designer, later responsible for the Design, Development, and Maintenance of the Governmental Institution’s Intranet.
Graphic Designer, B&F Pub and Consulting — 1999-2000
First Job as Designer. Mainly Graphic Design for local Businesses, first approach to professional Web Design.
Education
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal, 2000 – Bachelor’s Degree in Communication Design & Hypermedia.
Professional School Tomás Cabreira, Portugal, 1994 – Professional Formation in Photography & Video.
Conferences
2010 dConsruct by Clearleft – Brighton UK
Tools
- Pen & paper
- Photoshop CS
- Illustrator CS
- Coda for code editing & FTP
- xScope
- WordPress
- Versions for SVN
- ColorSchemer Studio
Skills
- Experienced with Mac OS X and Windows
- Server Based information
- Drawing skills
- Perception of marketing values and objectives
- Information architecture & project management
- UI design and HCI guidelines
- Fluent in XHTML and CSS
- Keeping current with HTML5 and CSS3 Specification