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...
Presentations
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(129)Shaping Behavior by Design SxSW 2016
Chris Risdon
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8 years ago
UX Strategy - the secret to long-term business success instead of one-shot wonders
Eric Reiss
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8 years ago
UX Roles and Job Titles
Ryan Winzenburg
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13 years ago
Get a Seat at the Strategy Table - WebVisions 2011
Samantha Starmer
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12 years ago
Microsite User Experience Design
Jenna Yim
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12 years ago
Whoa! Did You See That? Collaborative Data Collection and Analysis
Kyle Soucy
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8 years ago
Responsive Design Workflow (Breaking Development Conference 2012 Orlando)
Stephen Hay
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12 years ago
Real-world Responsive Design
Stephen Hay
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13 years ago
Shaping Organizations to Deliver Great User Experiences
Peter Merholz
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9 years ago
Kim Liu - Portfolio Mar 2015
Kim Liu
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9 years ago
The Art of Deception
Stephen Hay
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9 years ago
Experience Impact Framework
nForm User Experience
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16 years ago
Humanity for better business
Dirk Knemeyer
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12 years ago
Anatomy of an Effective Website Redesign
Primacy
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9 years ago
Build The Right Thing With The RITE Method | Rapid Usability Testing
Kyle Soucy
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9 years ago
Stakeholder Mapping: IA Summit 2014
nForm User Experience
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10 years ago
The Double Diamond Model of Product Definition and Execution
Peter Merholz
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10 years ago
Responsive Design Tested: What a recent experiment reveals about the potential ROI of mobile design
MarketingExperiments
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10 years ago
Information Architecture for Products
Abby Covert
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9 years ago
Understanding Users
Abby Covert
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11 years ago
Understanding Goals and Requirements
Abby Covert
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11 years ago
Future Friendly Style Guides
Luke Brooker
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12 years ago
Sketching for Design
Jackson Fox
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13 years ago
Kano - a quick intro
Jason Mesut
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13 years ago
Critical Thinking forUX Designers (Workshop)
Stephen Anderson
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13 years ago
Stop Doing What Youre Told
Stephen Anderson
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11 years ago
The World Is The Screen
Andrew Hinton
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11 years ago
Running Great Design Reviews With Clients & Partners
Craig Peters
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11 years ago
"Good fit" in the design of information spaces
Jorge Arango
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11 years ago
Users In The Mist - Stories from Field Studies
Brad Nunnally
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11 years ago
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...