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- Bridging the gap between the digital and physical world through Augmented Intelligence.- Transforming everyday items into interactive smart companions

Los Angeles, CA, US

PingTag is a printable tag with a QR code that you attach to your car and your personal items, so that people can scan it to message you in case of an emergency, without revealing your phone numbers to each other

http://augmentop.comWe are a self-funded and bootstrapped team of passionate designers, engineers, and 3D graphics experts, focused on creating augmented reality applications for the enterprise, for small businesses, and for end consumers.We design, build and launch our own products (with two products currently in development), and we provide consulting.

We help companies design new products and validate new features in five days, using an optimized Design Sprint process that integrates marketing, business, design and engineering.Traditional Design Sprint professionals simply help you design a prototype (what).We work with your team to define the entire spectrum, starting by refining your target market and.

After using Keynote for rapid UI prototyping in my own business for several years, I've created a UI kit to help other companies and individuals design and prototype their product ideas and features without using design tools or writing code.Keynotopia currently has over 100,000 in customers in 90+ countries, and hundreds of mentions in tech, design and.

Fictiv is a user experience design firm that brings innovation to market through agile design, by transforming ideas into elegant and viral product experiences.we integrate a user centered approach into every step of the product life-cycle: we help with problem definition, feature requirements, product planning, and user experience design.

Helped creating Shape magazine's virtual trainer for fitness/nutrition

GameAttain is a stealth mode startup.Worked with the founding team to define the problem, brainstorm ideas, prioritize, sketch and design features.

Colligent is a startup that provides actionable consumer research and analytics for social networks. Their clients include EMI, Sony, Universal and Warner.I worked with Colligent to design their web application. Together, we've conducted research, created user stories, analyzed and prioritized tasks, and iterated through various sketches, wireframes and.

Led frequent brainstorming and design sessions with the team to define, design and plan features for the product's first release.

Worked closely with the product team to scope and define features for the product's first release.Led the feature design process and delivered user interface sketches, interaction design storyboards, and visual style guides.

Worked with the executive team to define high level requirements, create product specifications and deliver iterative designs for the online media library and broadcaster's analytics console.* The user interface has been voted one of the top 50 most usable Rich Internet Applications by O'Reilly's Inside RIA.

Led the product management team to migrate to an agile process through accelerated planning, iterative design, frequent releases and early testing.Led the user interface redesign effort for www.ustream.tv.

Worked with the founding team since product incubation to gather user requirements, create product specifications, and design the user experience.Successfully delivered an elegant, easy to use and engaging user interface that positioned blist as one of the most innovative rich internet applications in the market, contributing to its first round of financing.

Consulted with the founding team to provide usability analysis and user interface designs for the product's early release.

Redmond, Washington, US

Created the user experience framework for Windows Live Search Selection (Books and Academic search)Managed feature design for Windows Live Book search.

Redmond, Washington, US

- Played a leading role in the user interface and interactoin design of the first release of Microsoft Expression Blend.- Managed feature teams to deliver robust and incremental updates to the product using agile and iterative process.- Led the effort for a unified user interface look and feel for the Expression suite.- Managed feature requirements.

• Focused on designing interfaces for mobile devices and information visualization tools.
• Designed and implemented several software tools, including:
• Pocket PhotoMesa: a pocket PC application for visualizing images on handheld devices using TreeMaps on a Zoomable User Interface (ZUI). Pocket PhotoMesa was acquired and sold by Windsor Interfaces in 2003.
• TimeSearcher 2.0: An information visualization tool for dynamic exploration and querying of multi-dimensional time-series data through interactive dynamic queries.
• Conducted several controlled and ethnographic studies.
• Conducted research on psychology of programming and software environments.

Redmond, Washington, US

Worked with researchers at the programmer’s productivity research center, studying development environments and creating solutions to facilitate program comprehension. Analyzed current practices in software development by interviewing and surveying Microsoft programmers and studying the current development trends in product groups.Designed several.

Dallas, TX, US

Worked on algorithms to generate photo-realistic animated talking heads from digital video samples using combined 2D and 3D mapping techniques. (www.vir2elle.com) Designed and implemented a facial mapping tool to apply and parameterize facial 3D meshes to a point cloud output of 3D scanner data

Cairo, Cairo, EG

. Designed and implemented several tools and plugins for Adobe, Corel, Microsoft.. Helped create the Mac version of Mimio (www.mimio.com). Created multi-player online games. Wrote tools to reverse engineer file formats.

Msc, Computer Science - Human Computer Interaction

Bsc, Computer Science