SKILL SETPasion Mura

+39 338 6787 461 (ITA)+355 69 3735 739 (ALB)

pmura@pmura.com - www.pmura.com

Albanian entrepreneur, researcher in HCI, designer, developer.Founder PM Works Corporation Sh.p.k.

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

HCI / UX / UI / Design

Information ArchitectureWireframingPrototypingUsability TestingCognitive WalkthroughVisualizationTypography

HCI ResearchHuman-Centered DesignParticipatory DesignContextual InquiryEthnographyAffinity Diagramming

Technical Skills

PHPMySQLMongoDBPython (learning)

(X)HTMLSVGCSS (advanced)JavaScript

Programming & Prototyping (Agile)

Language skills

Albanian Spoken: Native Written: Native

English Spoken: Intermediate Written: Proficient

Italian Spoken: Native Written: Native

Research Mathematica RapidMine Zotero/Mendeley Processing (Learning) OneNote Codename NotUp Freemind/PersonalBrain/Visio

Development (SVN/CVS/GIT) IDE: Dreamweaver, Aptana, Eclipse, Visual Studio

Multimedia Fireworks Photoshop Illustrator InDesign Inkscape FL-Studio (DAW) Sibelius (Score)

3D Rhinoceros (NURBS)

Software

2006 2007 2008

Learned about PhotoshopCreative Director, A&KFirst website: pmworks

Days of ArcSoft Photoimpression 4,Rhinoceros, some 3ds, and some otherunfamous software

Dark Ages

It was a mess at the beginning:

tables, img tags, inline

style properties, ...

Table-less, css-sprites,seo, client-server optimizationcomplex Photoshop techniques used

Table-less, css-sprites,seo, client-server optimizationcomplex Photoshop techniques used

Kudite: Startup project

2009

Freelance Web Designer & Developer

05/11

Very late 2006, switched from 3D to graphics design.

Late December: discovered about Photoshop, from now on learning.

Learned Dreamweaver MX.Done company static websites.

Intro to .Net platform (ASP.NET).Done company dynamic websites.

Learned and Implemented new methods and tech: CSS, intro to JS, MySQL, PHP, and SEO, client/server optimization techniques.

2007-2008 done only Web Design templates, websites, and company identities.

Founder pmworks (incorporated).

Built experience with other components of the Adobe Suite:inDesign, a bit of Flash.

Proeficient use of Photoshop, Illustrator, and good use of inDesign reached.

Creative Director at Aleksander&Ke ShpkBrand Creation & Strategy.

UI/UX for a big Albanian Portal.

Freelance late 2008.

Switched to Fireworks for UI/UX.

HCI/tech Research at pmworks.

Freelance designer & developer.

UI/mockups for some of my concepts.

Started working on Kudite.Done everything a tech-web startup needs.

Kudite as main, full-time, project:all my previous experience is focused here.

HCI/tech Research at pmworks.

Freelance designer & developer.

UI/mockups for some of my concepts/ideas: from general search engine UIs, to shopping cart systems.

Read: horrid designRead: horrid design

2010

Focus Groups

Ptizo

Founded Ptizo, Geolocation & Datetime Services

Freelance UI/UX Design and Development

2011

PORTFOLIO 2/3 HCI/UI/UX

pmworks

Feather

Typogeo

Kudite

Kudite employs next-generation systems and methods for HCI-BMI

major rebrand

UI concept

GUI concept

Identity (golden ratio)

Campaign

Website and Community

Math used to build typeface andrectangle (quadrec) of the newpmworks logo.pmworks and red rectangle aregolden proportioned.

Math used to build typeface andrectangle (quadrec) of the newpmworks logo.pmworks and red rectangle aregolden proportioned.

Trying to make a better IDEthat also suits Web design codersand front-end engineers

Trying to make a better IDEthat also suits Web design codersand front-end engineers

Community for designerswho inspire themself throughtypography

Community for designerswho inspire themself throughtypography

PORTFOLIO 3/3 DESIGN

17

21

I’m planning to replicate this using web technologies,with CSS3 transitions this would be an awesome UX.

It should be announced at http://pmura.com/works