About Me
They say life is a palette of colours; mine is a digital artboard with a selection of pixels from my personal and work experiences stirred together.
I’m Maria Petritsopoulou
I place emotional intelligence in the centre of good and responsible UX.
I am a User Experience & Interaction Designer with many years of experience in EU and commercial projects. I enjoy taking complex briefs and turning them into usable and useful digital solutions. I like diversity and I feel confident collaborating with international teams either face-2-face or remotely.
I live in Stockholm, Sweden since December 2016 and I work at eGovlab – Stockholm University, a technology innovation hub.
In my free time, I enjoy being close to nature either walking, hiking or sailing. I am also an amateur photographer and I find cooking to be a creative and a decompressing process which I love to do. A good book also can be the best company.
Years in EU projects
London, Athens, Stockholm
R&D and innovation projects
International work travels
My current project
Currently, I am part of the DE4A project, a H2020 project dealing with cross-border data exchange between EU citizens and public services. In the ‘Sustainable impact and new governance model’ work package, I am asked to explore and define the differences between human-centricity vs user-centricity in digital public services and define the human-centricity in digital government as a service and digital government as a platform. In the meantime, in the ‘Semantics interoperability solutions’ work package, I am learning about the data vocabularies while I am expecting the ML part to commence where I will get the opportunity to explore the UX and ML aspects. Since this is ongoing work I have nothing to share at the moment.
While you are here feel free to explore some photography from my personal collection or scroll further down to see my experience timeline.
Experience timeline
2016 – Current
eGovlab Stockholm University
Stockholm, Sweden
Senior Interaction Designer
- Creating wireframes/protoypes/UIs for EU or R&D projects
- Co-creation: Participated in numerous workshops and I have created my own exercises
- Usability workshop: Created survey and I’ve been a facilitator and an interview
- Research & data analyses
2007 – 2016
Gov2u
Athens, Greece
Head of Designer
- Leading the design team
- Managing the smooth workflow of the projects
- Key communication person between the client, development and the design team
- UX Design/UI Design and front-end developer
2005 – 2007
The Mortgage Time Group
London, UK
Web Designer & Front-end developer
- Designed & build the company’s website
- Numerous microsites for the group’s different activities
- Online forms and calculators
- Advertising banners
Publications
The Learner’s Perceptions of an Integrated System for Learning Management of Non-Cognitive Skills
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2003 – 2004
MSc Enterprise Graduate in Multimedia
University of Teesside, UK
- Enterprise skills for the cultural industries
- Business venture development for the cultural industries
- Learning & independent study
- Multimedia design
- Web authoring & internet
- Multimedia project management
- Visual & sound effects
2000 – 2003
BSc Multimedia
University of Teesside, UK
- Communications & introduction to sociology
- Multimedia authoring & technology
- Advanced WWW
- Business online
- Database system
- Human-Computer Interaction
Other Certificates
- A.I. for everyone – DeepLearning AI
- UX Research Hypotheses Design – UX Prodigy
- Introduction to UX Research & Design – UX Prodigy
- Scrum for Value
- Fine-Art Photography – Orama
Other Diplomas
- Telematics Technician – IEK Ilioupolis
- Software Engineering – ELKEPA
- Financial Services Executive – IEK Ilioupolis