About the site

Work with usability of digital interfaces as a way to have fun, was my desire to express how passionated I feel when I work with web design.
I expect to brush (literally) some reviews about a few websites and some aspects of them. Some websites are famous, others are not so famous, and others are not famous at all. The idea is to "illustrate" some usability aspects of the websites, pointing what works and what doesn't work and why.
I use my own guidelines of usability but if you want to take a look in some cool guidelines, this website provides the information you want: www.usability.gov

About me

I was born in the sunny land called Brazil. I'm 29 yo and current living in Guimarães - Portugal.

My academic record

2008 - Published an article at CyBerg 08: International Cyberspace Conference on Ergonomics2008 - Published an article in the International Colloquy of Safety and Health at Work.
Guimaraes, Portugal.
2007 - Presented a poster at the Second Meeting of AlBan Students in Grenoble - France.
2006 - Joined the Alban Program for Master Degree at the University of Minho in Portugal.
My thesis: Digital Inclusion of Impaired People: analysis of a website.
2005 - Integrated the EAI (Ergonomics Applied to Informatics) Study Group of Psychology at the University of Brasilia.
2004 - Presented a poster at the First Brazilian Congress of Organizational and Labor Psychology.
2004 - Graduated in Industrial Design in the University of Brasilia.
2003 - Graduated in Graphic Design in the University of Brasilia.

Professional Background
2006 - Worked with press and digital media in an advertisement company.
www.designatual.com.br (in portuguese)
2005 - Worked as a designer consultant in usability to create the national Digital TV interface to the Brisa company.
www.brisa.org.br (in portuguese)
2004 - Managed at an Industrial Technology Development scholarship program, sponsored by the Foundatin CNPQ (in portuguese) as a senior graphic designer.
www.cnpq.br
2003 - Designed the interface of an intranet system for the Senatorial Organ's Call Center.

Current Activities
I recently finished my master degree in Human Engineer at the University of Minho. The field studyed is usability and accessibility in websites and how we can include blind people with those approaches. Basically I studyed their differences and how both can complement for a better navigation for the blind people (accessibility + usability).
The website I took as my "rat lab" is called cinereview (in Portuguese), which was kindly offered by a very close friend, who was brave enough to give me total freedom to "destroy" its original design. The usability and accessibility (most of the parts) in the website is already done. The results were incredible different, as exected. I will post the conclusions of my work here when I got time.