About & Contact
The fact that I don’t know where I will be next month is the best thing ever!
Hi this is my Personal, mezzo-professional, weblog. My Name is Marcelo Eduardo Moraes de Oliveira and I’m a 29 (Funny to notice only 6 months later it was again wrong! :) ) years old User Experience Designer and really amateur Guitar player. Currently I live in Recife working as Manager of User Experience Design for edgy Mobile Phones, Internet tablet, and other devices. I try to help an incredible team of Designers and Developers to creat great solutions for small (and not so small) problems. My job includes something that I really love: Games. Some of this passion can be checked out on my Videogame collections page. There’s also a non-frequent post enabled blog, in my native language, Portuguese: UxMe
PLEASE: It’s really important to notice that this site reflects my personal opinion and cannot be taken as my employee’s opinion or strategy.
Small Professional background
I’ve been working with user-interaction stuff since 98 when a great friend of mine introduced me to website design. I’ve worked in almost all positions available in the web business (from trainee to boss), fought against the 4.x browser differences, hacked a lot of css, created web development team methodologies, coded some thousands and thousands of Javascript and even Ajax before that name become famous. (yeah asynchronous to the bone my friends).
From those web days, what I really enjoyed was the freedom to create (thanks Ricardo and Raphael) incredible interactive advertisement campaigns. I was able even to be rewarded in some relevant international and national ad festivals. You can check out some of my jobs from this era clicking : donate blood | Origami
But of course, my mutant side has grown on me and I can’t do the same thing for a long period. After 5 years of web development, moved to Rio de Janeiro and back to Brasilia, I finally took a chance into the mobile world. It was my chance to unite what I already liked (web) with something that I was really interested: mobility.
This turned out to be better than I expected and I was even able to do another thing that was like a dream: To be paid to develop games. I did some developement(and a lot of debug for Java certify), but worked mainly as game designer /character creator for a very funny game, that came pre-installed in the Ngage QD in Brazil and for other small mobile games.
The game ended up as a pretty good project and I was able to travel all over my country talking about the experiences obtained with it. Long life to you Bboy! But those days o j2me coding and Symbian playing were about to end.
If you are a portuguese speaker / reader you can take a look at this interview(pt) for the Javafree website about my mobile work at that time
I also had the chance to work with interactive art, helping the great Gisele Beiguelman bring to life the code_up project. I really would like to have more time to bring my other ideas (virtual spray can using mobile phone cameras) to life. Mobile phone aware art installations is something that delights me.
2 years later, again I was looking for some other challenges and found myself on another boat: mobile Linux. New world, new (ok not so new to me) system, new kind of device, incredible screen and a need for games. Here I go! This also made me change city, and now, living in the sunny (and smelly) Recife I’m doing what I love : interaction design. UI, Product design, Mobile Games, and everything else people let me dive into!
Now, almost 4 years late, I am at the edge of a new move. All these years in Recife turned me into a much stronger and experienced professional. I left the position of the “only” designer in the team and managed to not only create a incredible team of 15 designers in 2 cities that are able to solve complex interaction problems and focus on the user experience in every single detail of our projects. The team moved from being a core development focused team to a real product creation team, with designers and developers working in such a high synergy that can really shock a visitor. I am really proud of being one of the responsible to break the bridge between talented designers and developers and give them room to be a really unified team in pursuit of the perfect experience for each project we do. Be it small or huge, like the one that is probably frying my brain cell right now, using a real Agile approach based on scrum, but honest enough to not bother the team instead of making it more productive.
Multiple projects, Multiple inputs methods, multiple scenarios, multiple screens type, humongous taskflows with 8, 9 teams working together in several cities. This is my daily routine and I simply can’t help but to wake up early to go there and rock with this team.
I cannot tell what the future has for me, but anything challenging enough will for sure make me feel passionate about it. I really just want to be able to be in creative spaces with creative people making something different every time, pushing the limits of everyone including mine all the time.
Contact
So if you want to get in touch, ask something, get my CV, or simply send me to hell you can use the following email address:
handful at gmail dot com
This is my primary email and works for Gtalk (jabber) my Msn and almost everything else.
Also you can go straight to linkedin, and get my professional CV from there.
Marcelo’s Linkedin profile
Ps: OK, it was not so small after all!
Almost forgetting: you can also leave a message down here, in the comments form. I will do my best to answer as fast as possible.
Olá cara! Eu vi um post seu no site javafree.org e achei ele muito interessante. Bom estou com uma dúvida e espero que você possa me ajudar: Estou em contacom com uma publisher chamada Knum3d(www.knum3d.com), o cara lá quer que eu mande um demo do jogo que desenvolvi, até aí tudo bem! Mas o que me deixou com o pé atrás foi que ele me pediu para que eu colocasse o logo da empresa no inicío do jogo, eu achei isso estranho, afinal o jogo ainda não é deles! O que você poderia me dizer sobre isso? Desde já agradeço.
June 6th, 2006 at 3:51 pmE aí, Marcelo, tudo bem? Cara, acho que você não deve lembrar de mim, mas já trocamos algumas mensagens e conversamos no GTalk sobre o Nintendo DS. Eu sou de Recife mas vai fazer dois anos em janeiro que estou morando em Manaus. Acontece que justamente nessa época (começo do ano) eu gostaria de voltar para recife, e estou procurando oportunidades de emprego. Inicialmente a minha vontade é trabalhar na área de jogos, e sei que aí em Recife este mercado está com boas empresas e profissionais. Então, você sabe me dizer como anda a oferta de vagas na área? Obrigado pela força, abração!
October 26th, 2006 at 7:52 amHi,
October 30th, 2006 at 10:26 amI am interested in getting the Nokia 770, but i am in the US, and I need it for Euro travel as well. Do you know if the new OS2006 version can link up to channels 12 & 13 in Europe. If not, will i be missing out by buying the 770 in the US & not in Europe (difference in price – cheaper in the US)
Thanks
Burotn
Greetings,
December 17th, 2006 at 10:46 pmRequesting advise with Canola.
Once I download it to my Nokia 770 it will not install
Notice of missing packages:
libsqlite0 >=2.0-0
libsdl-ttf2.0-0
libsdl-ttf2.0-0
Suggestions?
Cordially,
Wayne
Maqrcelo, blz cara? Me add ai no msn, gsmdf@hotmail.com , Guga, Brasília/Guará/36…
December 25th, 2006 at 3:56 pmHi Marcelo, I’m a real fan of your Maemodrac Solitaire game :)…..just was wondering if you have plans to port it to the n800?
Thanks and Cheers,
Jaime.
January 18th, 2007 at 12:16 pmOi Marcelo!
Foi jóia conhecer vc nesse fim-de-semana!
Quando vier a Helsinki, não deixe de nos avisar pra combinarmos algo juntos de novo.
Meus mails:
marina.inserra@uol.com.br
marina.inserra@danone.com
Meu marido:
sdrull@yahoo.com.br
Cel: +358 40 7098014
Mande seus contatos pra nós também.
February 11th, 2007 at 11:22 amBeijão,
Marina e Edu
Oi Marcelo! Estou fazendo uma pós – graduação em produção de software com ênfase em software livre na UFLA e o professor Jones Oliveira Albuquerque sugeriu um que o projeto final de seus orientandos fosse voltado a algum dos projetos contidos em http://www.indt.org.br/maemo. Gostaria de conversar com você sobre o projeto do ICE BREAKER…Achei interessante e gostaria de saber mais detalhes sobre o projeto, se eu poderia contribuir e como.
June 17th, 2007 at 6:50 amObrigada pela atenção.
Meu msn: anacarolrm@hotmail.com
Fala rapaz… vi seu site e fiquei muito curioso sobre o seu trabalho. vc usa msn??
Caso a resposta seja sim, por favor mande seu contato pra mim no e-mail. Gostaria de trocar uma idéia contigo…
Grande abraço e parabéns pelo site…
August 27th, 2007 at 8:04 pmMarcelo,
I like your site and an impressed by your ideas and energy. Nice job indeed.
Eu lembro Brasil mas nao voce. Fica feliz
Abraco e Carihno
thembi
September 12th, 2007 at 9:44 pmHello, I am looking through the theme tutorials at maemo.org and am interested in using the Golden theme on the 770 ITOS2007HACKER edition. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
September 14th, 2007 at 7:31 pmolá marcelo, meu nome é fellyph eu estudei com você algumas cadeiras na fir, eu falei com vc ontem depois da palestra da livraria cultura.
meu contato fellyph.cintra@gmail.com me add no gmail ai eu mando o curriculo pra você e agente conversa melhor.
have a nice weenkend !!
November 9th, 2007 at 12:36 pmHi! I’m using N800. I really love it..
April 12th, 2008 at 3:00 pmI want to download the yahoo messenger and smart ichat because I really need this for my family and friends. It’s possible? Is there any application for that?
Please help me!
Thank you so mUch…..
hi! reading the Maemo OS2008 customization tutorial at
http://maemo.org/development/documentation/how-tos/3-x/howto_customization_bora.html
I found the tool personalization_0.1_all.deb without the direct download, just the note \”Request package personalization_0.1_all.deb directly from Marcelo Eduardo\”.
please, can you send me this .deb?
thanks
May 5th, 2008 at 9:10 amTurrican
Aí o povo acha q vc é suporte do maemo mesmo… :)
August 4th, 2008 at 5:58 amOlá Marcelo! Pode me enviar seu msn e e-mail? Quero enviar algo que pode te interessar! Abraços, Monique
June 21st, 2009 at 10:30 pmCaro, Marcelo
Eu li o seu post no blog da Karine Drumond, onde você relata vários detalhes interessantes do ambiente de trabalho no Instituto Nokia a respeito do UX Agile.
http://karinedrumond.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/uxagile-em-busca-da-integracao-perfeita/
Neste momento, estou me dedicando a um trabalho acadêmico sobre o tema, então, queria saber: você consegue descrever ganhos trabalhando da formam que trabalham hoje comparando com a forma que faziam no passado ?
Acredita que possa existir itens que ainda poderiam ser melhorados no processo?
Obrigado pela ajuda.
August 25th, 2009 at 6:39 pmAbraço
Eliézer Martins