Personal Information
Organization / Workplace
Greater Boston Area, MA United States
Occupation
Director of UX at Sallie Mae
Industry
Technology / Software / Internet
Website
www.linkedin.com/in/valeska
About
I make a living doing what comes naturally to me: I study how people interact with things in physical and digital spaces in order to create an interface design that works for them (A.K.A. Human-Computer Interaction for the geeks). My goal is to stop the dehumanization of digital experiences, and help computers to speak human.
I started my career as a web developer, which has been instrumental to understand technology constraints and bridge conversations with engineers & stakeholders. Learning IA, research methods, interaction design, and human factors just seemed the natural path. I leverage all these knowledge to build consensus. As a team leader, I strive to build up those around me b...
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Razorbase Examples Part 2
Sherman Monroe
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14 years ago
A Social Semantic BBC?
BBC Web Developers
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14 years ago
Journalists and the Social Web 3
ardessie
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15 years ago
Linked Data Tutorial
Andreas Blumauer
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15 years ago
Made of links... the BBC and dBpedia collaboration -- at Dublin Core 2008 Berlin
onpause
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15 years ago