Hello, there. I’m Vinicius.
I’m an interface designer.

I come from a small city founded by Italians (but with a tupi-guarani name) located by the coast of Brazil. I moved to Vitória, the capital of my state, to study Computer Science, but I changed my mind in the last minute and decided to learn Design at the university.

It couldn't have been a better choice.

This is some of my work:

(be sure to check my curriculum vitæ first)

E-Commerce Brasil Training System

2011 – Work in progress

The company iMasters, along with Google and Abril (a major Brazilian publisher and printing company), maintains a project to improve the e-commerce market in Brazil.

The iMasters team is building an online learning platform for E-Commerce Brasil, with guided tutorials, interactive classes and structure for organizing presential conferences.

As part of the project, I defined the main features of the system, elaborated the mockups and implemented all the web application front-end.

Content editor for iMasters PRO

2010

We were creating a content-based platform for online courses. We needed a sane editor for professors without all the crap of WYSIWYG web editing. Basically we wanted the courses content to follow the same style structures, without storing the data in ugly markup, yet providing freedom for the way the content is displayed.

The professors would require lots of multimedia integration and source code exhibition. Letting them to write HTML was not an option.

Together with the iMasters team, I planned and created a block-based editor, with support to paragraph styles, multimedia, images and source code (with auto-indenting). The whole editor even allowed full control trough the keyboard.

iMasters

2009–2011

The iMasters website is one of the biggest Brazilian networks for developers and programmers, with over a million visits and about 1,700,000 page-views per month.

From 2009 to 2011, besides improving several bits of the portal, I was responsible for working and reorganizing the main structure of the website, including a complete rewrite of the front-end part.

The rewrite was followed by a major revamp of the global navigation, header and content layout, done by following the approach of user-centered design.

GNOME Project

2007–2011

During my little free time I've been contributing to the GNOME project, mostly in its website, but also with a few software design contributions.

I designed and implemented the current version of www.gnome.org from the ground up on top of WordPress.

Also, I worked in several parts of the GNOME website during the Google Summer of Code program, developing a plugin to allow the website to be translatable, making a new applications area and a community website. These changes are slowly coming online.