Susana Vilaça

Hi, my name is Susana Vilaça I'm 24 yeard old and I'm currently working and living in Lisbon, Portugal. I'm from Porto, Portugal and I studied at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto. My professional goals are to make a career as a usability and user experience consultant. My love for technology also makes me want to be involved in building good quality user interfaces, always applying usability concepts. I also have the goal of continuously keep learning and growing independently of where I’m working and even outside my competence areas. I think culture and information are a very powerful tool.

Homepage: http://susanavilaca.livethoughts.net


Posts by Susana Vilaça

Wireframing Guidelines

December 7, 2009 - 09:45

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When I started wireframing about 1 year ago my biggest difficulty was figuring out what to wireframe. What should I wireframe so that the designer and, ultimately, the developer understood well my ideas?
During this year I was able to come up with a set of guidelines that help me through this process. It’s still a [...]

Designing web forms

November 25, 2009 - 09:30

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Here’s a little secret that I’d like to share with you:  Most people just aren’t all that thrilled by forms. They  don’t like filling them in, they don’t like thinking about them, and they certainly don’t like the idea of having to design them.
by Caroline Jarret

If you already had to make some kind of form [...]

World Usability Day 2009 – Designing for a Sustainable World

November 12, 2009 - 18:48

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Today, 12th November, we celebrate the World Usability Day. This year theme is Designing for a Sustainable World which basically is about showing how usability can be applied to all we do and build:
Designing for a Sustainable World focuses on how our products and services impact our world. We look at all products and services, [...]

What drives you? – motivation theories

November 7, 2009 - 20:18

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So I decided to move to my own personalized domain. I thought it was time to leave some topics in the old blog behind since I’m no more working on them.
So to inaugurate my new blog I leave you with an inspiring video about motivation. It was a talk given by Daniel Pink at TED. [...]