
Resume
Designing for the users since 2007
A professional journey spanning accross countries and industries
From the 'what' to the 'why'
Earlier in my career, I worked hands‑on a variety of projects in many industries and domains. These projects shaped my craft, and still inform how I lead, facilitate, and make decisions today.
My focus is now design strategy and experience visions, facilitating impacting decisions, and helpings teams managing their UX debt in corporate organisations.
In Italy
- I started working for the Rome-based Web agency Ixenia (now known as Texeo) for almost 4 years, gaining experience in e-commerce websites, web portals, young online businesses and web marketing strategies.
- I then moved to the larger Italian company Eustema, improving my knowledge in Communication for Public Administration and services, multi-device approaches, Web standard (accessibility).
- In the meantime I taught usability theories and Web marketing guidelines at the Rome Tor Vergata University in a professional masters course.
In United Kingdom
- In the summer of 2013 I moved to London. I worked for 18 months in the digital Company Open Reply in London, where I challenged myself in responsive design and adaptive design, design for tablet and mobile Apps, international retail and e-commerce.
- In May 2015 I joined the creative digital agency Hiveworks (former Orange Digital) with focus on Service design and UCD approaches, contracting for one year.
- I joined the financial industry and contracted for Lloyds banking group for less than a year, challenging myself in designing interactions that will be used potentially by millions of customers every day.
- I'm currently working for the scientific publishing sector and I'm a UX Lead at Springer Nature, focusing on improving the experience for one of the most famous scientific magazine online and peer review system.
EXPERIENCE
Designing for the user since 2007
UX Lead
Springer Nature
May 2017 - present
Leading the user experience strategy for complex, B2B/B2C digital workflows in the scholarly publishing domain.
• Drive system‑level design coherence across interconnected user journeys, both B2B and B2C
• Define and evolve UX principles, design frameworks, and vision‑setting activities
• Synthesise research findings into actionable direction for product teams
• Facilitate workshops and alignment sessions to bring clarity, focus, and collaborationSENIOR UX DESIGNER
Lloyds Banking Group
June 2016 - March 2017
Main activities:
- To design experience for both Consumer Finance and Commercial Banking product, for desktop, mobile and tablet devices- To design interactions complaint to the brand communication standards
- To work collaboratively with IT, Legal and Product team to meet both user and business needs, creating a collaborative and active environment
- To define scripts for one-to-one recurrent user testing
UX CONSULTANT
Open Reply UK
Oct 2013 – Jan 2015
Main activities:
- to design user experiences for mobile and tablet devices, responsive and adaptive designs
- to design user experiences for mobile and tablet application, on Android and iOS systems
- to improve user flows, journeys, user interactions
- to define content strategies and infoarchitecture improvementsINFORMATION ARCHITECT / UX CONSULTANT
Eustema S.p.a.
Sep 2011 – Aug 2013
Main activities:
- To determine overall hierarchy of information based on the end user needs, develop content taxonomy and site maps for Website, Software, Mobile App
- To develop high level and/or detailed wireframes, mockups and prototypes to outline flow of site information for Desktop, Tablet and Smartphone version
- To articulate design decisions and interaction model through formal documents
WEB USABILITY TEACHER
University of Rome "Tor Vergata"
Feb 2012 – Feb 2012
Digital communication and Communication on the Web courses.
UX DESIGNER AND WEB MARKETING SPECIALIST
IXenia S.r.l. (now known as Texeo)
Oct 2007 – Sep 2011
Main activities:
- To create site maps, page-level wireframes, prototypes and functional specifications for Website (Insitutional, Intranet, Portal, b2b, b2c)
- To define Web marketing strategies and manage SEO/SEM activities (Content Optimization, Advertising, Email marketing, Social Media Marketing)EDUCATION

University of Rome Tor Vergata
Master Degree with honours "Publishing, multimedia communication and journalism" 2004 – 2007
Thesis in Digital Communication: “Software Architecture for the Web: theory, problems and usability Methods”.
Main subjects: digital communication / cognitive studies / formal languages / communication theories
University of Rome Tor Vergata
Bachelor degree with honours Humanities/Humanistic Studies 2001 – 2004
Main subject: multimedia communication / psychology / linguistic / text informatics
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