Luca Benazzi
Senior user experience designer - London
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Key competences
- Usability and HCI (human-computer interaction): thorough knowledge of usability best practices applied to specific business contexts and objectives.
- User interface design for all kinds of technological devices including mobile devices and touch screens. Excellent, updated knowledge of all tools for creating highly interac-tive interface prototypes. Very good understanding of visual design principles.
- Information architecture: excellent knowledge of navigation patterns, content organization and metadata organization. Very good knowledge of web-oriented communication techniques.
- User research & strategy: collecting information via various investigation techniques (ethnographic research, participatory design, card sorting, etc.), UI requirements defini-tion, modelling of personas, scenarios and user journeys, user-centered strategy.
- Usability testing: setting, organization and management of in-house usability testing.
- Instructional design for e-learning: web-oriented contents for training, communication channels and methods, cognitive models, multimedia storyboards.
- Semantic web: XML-related technologies, topic maps, RDF.
- Accessibility: standards compliance.
Main software
- Prototyping: Axure (Axure Software Solutions), Microsoft Visio, Omnigroup Omnigraffle
- Usability testing: Morae (Techsmith)
- Graphics, multimedia & web design, paging: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Dreamweaver, InDesign
Publications (ordered by most recent)
- Benazzi L. - Delirio commerciale e ideologia Open Source (
1,3 MB)
(Persone e conoscenze, n. 52, Sept 2009) - Benazzi L. - RDF e microformati: vocabolari condivisi per il web ( 1,5 MB)
(Persone e conoscenze, n. 51, Aug 2009)
- Benazzi L. - Investire in usabilità per guadagnare in efficienza - II ( 2,2 MB)
(Persone e conoscenze, n. 50, Jun-Jul 2009)
- Benazzi L. - Investire in usabilità per guadagnare in efficienza - I ( 1,4 MB)
(Persone e conoscenze, n. 49, May 2009)
- Benazzi L. - E-learning da rifare ( 2,5 MB)
(Persone e conoscenze, n. 46, Feb 2009)
- Benazzi L. - Verso il web semantico ( 2,4 MB)
(Persone e conoscenze, n. 45, Jan 2009)
- Benazzi L. - Progettare per le persone ( 1,9 MB)
(Persone e conoscenze, n. 44, Nov-Dec 2008)
Main education
1997-2003: Master degree in Natural Sciences (with full marks) - Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Natural Sciences, Milan University (Italy)
2000-2001: Geological studies at the Stockholm university (Sweden)
Interests and activities
Writing, reading, art, physics and cosmology, natural sciences, languages, communication, human-computer interaction, semantic web, cooking.