Curriculum Vitae

Chiara Cantù

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In short

Chiara is an UX/UI designer with a hybrid background in Product and Service Design. She has +3 years of professional experience in different industries as Digital Technologies, Data, Gaming, Retail and Financial services. Chiara is curious by nature, energetic and independent, able to collaborate within diversified teams on complex projects.

Experience
UI/UX Designer

Frog Italy, part of Capgemini Invent, Milan – Design consultancy – frog.co  (May 2021 – Now)

• UX/UI designer for mobile and desktop digital projects with adaptive Design systems
• B2B and B2C projects in different sectors such as digital technologies, data, gambling, retail and financial services

UX/UI and Digital Designer

Next 14, Milan – Data-driven and advertising solutions – next14.com   (Oct. 2019 – May 2021)

• UX/UI for proprietary platforms handling data and advertising solutions
• Web Design, SEO, DEM, blog, webinar and sales materials
• Clients: Amazon Stores, Illy, Pellini, Nielsen, Barilla, Unicredit, Esselunga, Il Sole 24 Ore

Founder & Social Media manager

Volley, Facebook page – Volleyball comunity – facebook.com/PageVolley (2012 – Now)

• Founder and administrator of a Facebook page with 500k+ followers
• Creation of contents and merchandising, sold on e-commerce website

Education
Product Service System Design (PSSD) - Master’s degree

Politecnico di Milano (2017 – Oct. 2019)pssd.polimi.it 

Taught in English – 110/110 cum laude – GPA 4.0/4.0

Thesis: “Cooper Interstellar, a serious game system for ADHD children from 6 years old”

Merit based scholarship for a. y. 2018/2019 and for a. y. 2017/2018
High selectivity for PSSD degree’s admission (0,4% of candidates)
PoliMi is the 6th best university in the world for Arts&design (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2020)

Erasmus+ project

Escola Universitària de Disseny i Enginyeria, Barcelona, Spain (Jan. – July 2019) elisava.net/en

Courses: Thesis’ elaboration, Identidad y marca (Idetity and Brand), Publicidad (Adv)

Industrial Design - Bachelor’s degree

Politecnico di Milano (Oct. 2014 – July 2017) design.polimi.it/en/

Evaluation: 106/110 (GPA 3.8/4.0)

Thesis: “ColorBox, a coding toy for children from 3 to 5 years old” for Chicco brand

Graduate Award “Enrico Legler”
Merit based scholarship for a. y. 2016/2017 and for a. y. 2015/2016

Languages

Italian

Native language

 

English

Level C1 – IELTS

 

Spanish

Level B1

Technical skills

Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere, After Effect, Adobe XD)
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UX tools (Wireframes, A/B tests, Workshops)
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UI tools (Figma, Sketch, InVision)
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Microsoft Office
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Hobbies

3D printing
3D printing

Digital Technologies
Digital Technologies

Volleyball
Volleyball

Art Museums
Art Museums

PERSONAL SKILLS

High team working ability in a multicultural and heterogeneous team due to highly multicultural environment in the master’s degree and Erasmus+ project

• All around designer (Service – Product – Graphic) with strong technical bases more than artistic ones

Creative mindset with advanced problem solving, critical thinking and analytical skills

• Knowledge enforced in practice about design methods in desk and field research as well as market analysis and insights collection

Determined and motivated, strongly curious with passion and enthusiasm

EXTRA COURSES

How To Design for Accessibility: for UX Designers (WCAG 2.2) – course by Capgemini & Udemy

Design Thinking for Business – from Problem Finding to Problem Construction – workshop by Osservatori Digital Innovation Politecnico di Milano

99eLode – course by Cariplo Factory & IoDonna Selected as one of top 99 graduates cum laude of Italy to improve digital skills

Publishing articles about design and digital advertising – next14.com/blog/

Master in “Leadership and gender in the society 4.0” – SDA Bocconi University Scholarship from Soroptimist Club Monza

Digital Marketing, Media and Communication – course by Fastweb Digital Academy

• Exposition of “Designing the human flow” graphic poster during the “Proof of concept” event at Triennale di Milano – servdes.org/conference-2018-milano/

Design Talent Days 2017 – Vodafone Village

Tools and logics of SEM: Google AdWords – course by Fastweb Digital Academy

Web developer, HTML and CSS code – course by Tempo Ritrovato