Alessio Gallucci

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Agenda

How we met

History

Family

Hobbies

Ukulele
Music
Coffee
Meditation
Badminton

Requested recipe: Classic Focaccia

Bio in Notion

I grew up in a small town in the middle of Italy and when I was 18, I decided to move to Germany to study Psychology - and eventually become a new italian version of Sigmund Freud. (Me not liking cigars was only the first hint that this vision was doomed to fail).

During my Bachelor's in Münster, I started questioning whether being a psychotherapist would be the right path for me. After various internships in quantitative research, HR and psychotherapy I moved to Munich to join the Amazon EU recruitment team and started my Master's in Industrial & Organizational Psychology at LMU. I kept working in the talent management space at Amazon and later in a People Analytics start-up, where I discovered my interest in UX. I then joined NavVis as a UX-Design working student, where I had the chance to professionalize my self-taught design skills, working on the development of two hardware products and a mobile app.

While I enjoy both Research & Design, I am mostly interested in the process bridging the two phases and in how to use Psychology to deliver products that are pleasing and user-centered.

Ask Me About

Figma and UI Design
My obsession for the italian indie band i Cani
Design magazines and graphic novels
Great illustrators and data visualizers as Ilya Milstein, Christoph Nieman & Giorgia Lupi
How great John Oliver actually is

Role & Performance Objectives

Sourcing Designer

Nailing the Sourcing problem space together with our PM and domain experts before moving to brainstorming and shaping solutions for our users.
Leading the design and creation of new prototypes (ranging from low-fidelity sketches to high-fidelity Figma prototypes) and finding creative solutions to make our UI look great without compromising technical feasibility and consistency with the rest of the app.
Reducing the value and usability risk of our product together with our PM and engineers by user-testing new and existing features with our customers.
Anticipating the needs of our Frontend Engineers with detailed specifications and handoffs to reduce their guesswork.

Design MGMT

Create and maintain an onboarding plan for new Designers, making their transition as new DPD @ Luminovo as frictionless as possible.
Ensuring the growth of our Junior Designers, mentoring them to further develop their Design skills as well as helping them finding and growing their own area of expertise.
Proactively support the People team in attracting and assessing design talent for Luminovo.

Design lead

Build and maintain a Figma environment that is scalable and addresses the needs of our internal user groups (designers, engineers, PMs)
Create and maintain processes that ensure alignment and consistency of design across all the product teams.
Lead the continuous expansion of our design system based on the feedback and requests from our designers, and facilitate the transition to its digital twin in the Frontend.

Working with me

I really enjoy working in close collaboration and in quick iterations. So rather than presenting the whole bunch of work just at the end of the sprint, I prefer doing quick check-ins with developers during the process, so that both sides are aligned and flaws in the design or in the concept can be spotted early.
I am really interested in understanding the technology behind the product, so please don't spare me with details about it! In case the conversation would get too technical for me I might ask you to "translate" it in a more accessible language.
Sometimes you don't need actual customers to validate some design assumptions and your colleagues can become great test users. I will probably ask you here and then to test my prototypes and to give me your unfiltered feedback - no matter in which team you are. While a diverse testing pool is better, I understand that some people are very motivated to do it, some less. Please let me know in which section of this spectrum you are so that I can use my test requests wisely ;)
I personally tend to prefer direct pings over emails for internal communication. I am also a big fan of short calls (or conversations if we both are in the office) especially when we need to explain or clarify something.
For work-related topics please use one of the official channels, for private topics feel free to reach out to me per WhatsApp!

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