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My name is Vanissa Wanick and this website is 80% done! Leave your feedback
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I believe that design can change the world!
I’m a brazilian designer and I love colors, fashion trends, illustration, graphic/web design, lomo/photography, digital marketing and rainbows. And, pirates, yeah, I love pirates! Arrr!
Since 2006, I work as a webdesigner and graphic designer, developing layouts for web and creating solutions for internet and brands.
Today I work as a freelancer. I used to work with data visualization and interactive infographics for web. Sometimes I like to draw little monsters, crazy lines and abstract forms. I love Tim Burton, Paul Klee, Joan Miró, Wassily Kandinsky and Salvador Dalí.
Academic stuff
I’m graduated in Design from PUC-Rio (2006), and I have postgrad degree in marketing from UFF (2008). Today I give classes at Instituto Infnet about webdesign and digital marketing. My plans are being more part of the academy, so I want to apply for a PhD degree in Design. 
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Illustrated Small Guide for pph website
This was a small project for people per hour website. The briefing was to illustrate a to-do list.
Intranet Capemisa: Information architecture and webdesign
This project was developed for the intranet of ‘Capemisa Vida e Previdência’. I had to arrange the content with priorities and give a better idea of the company concept. The intranet is an internal project, made for Capemisa’s employees. Tool: Fireworks
OGLOBO Online: Mixtape de verão
Infographic for new songs in 2012 summer for oglobo.com.br Worked with: Mariana Castro and Ana Fucs
My grandparents’ cartoon
Illustration for my grandparents – the best birthday present! The best way to show your love is doing what you like the most! This project was a present to my grandparents. I decided to make something different for them, so why not their own cartoon? I’m sure they loved it! Tools: Illustrator + Pencil [...]
OGLOBO Online: Eliminatórias da Copa do Mundo 2014
This project was developed to show all the matches before the 2014 World Cup. We decided to create a circular background, that could remind a stadium and help us to divide the spaces in different sizes. Website: www.oglobo.com.br Tools for layout: Illustrator Development: Flash The drawings below are part of the development of the idea [...]
OGLOBO Online: Histórico do Brasileirão 2011
This project was developed to show the historic of the biggest football championship in Brazil. We decided to create a circular timeline, with the shield of the football teams, using the brazilian colors and shapes of the ball of the game. Website: www.oglobo.com.br Tools for layout: Illustrator
Semaphore (responsive website)
Responsive website layout for IT company The definition of the website flow and wireframe was discussed during the briefing. My role in this project was the interface layout. I needed to redesign the company’s website and my strategy was to highlight the colors and white space. In order to create the best solution, I decided [...]
WebApp (framework) – O GLOBO
The project was a framework development, that should preview all the layout possibilities. Due to this challenge, I made the wireframes and layouts. The main website should be responsive. A framework is a conceptual model that should be used in a context For more information about this project, read my blog.
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Illustrated Small Guide for pph website
This was a small project for people per hour website. The briefing was to illustrate a to-do list.
Intranet Capemisa: Information architecture and webdesign
This project was developed for the intranet of ‘Capemisa Vida e Previdência’.
I had to arrange the content with priorities and give a better idea of the company concept.
The intranet is an internal project, made for Capemisa’s employees.
Tool: Fireworks
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OGLOBO Online: Mixtape de verão
Infographic for new songs in 2012 summer for oglobo.com.br
Worked with: Mariana Castro and Ana Fucs
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My grandparents’ cartoon
The best way to show your love is doing what you like the most!
This project was a present to my grandparents. I decided to make something different for them, so why not their own cartoon?
I’m sure they loved it!
Tools: Illustrator + Pencil + tablet
Date: 2012
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OGLOBO Online: Eliminatórias da Copa do Mundo 2014
This project was developed to show all the matches before the 2014 World Cup.
We decided to create a circular background, that could remind a stadium and help us to divide the spaces in different sizes.
Website: www.oglobo.com.br
Tools for layout: Illustrator
Development: Flash
The drawings below are part of the development of the idea of the project.
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OGLOBO Online: Histórico do Brasileirão 2011
This project was developed to show the historic of the biggest football championship in Brazil.
We decided to create a circular timeline, with the shield of the football teams, using the brazilian colors and shapes of the ball of the game.
Website: www.oglobo.com.br
Tools for layout: Illustrator
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Semaphore (responsive website)
The definition of the website flow and wireframe was discussed during the briefing. My role in this project was the interface layout. I needed to redesign the company’s website and my strategy was to highlight the colors and white space.
In order to create the best solution, I decided to start with the mobile and finish with desktop version
The previous version was very static and heavy. The idea was to create a clean interface and elements that could work as blocks, but not ‘looking’ like blocks. I got very happy with the final result. See the website.
References: Mobile first
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WebApp (framework) – O GLOBO
Due to this challenge, I made the wireframes and layouts. The main website should be responsive.
A framework is a conceptual model that should be used in a context
For more information about this project, read my blog.
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Concerns of an interface designer in crisis
User experience is the quality of experience a person has when interacting with a specific design.
First of all user experience design is not user interface design. I had problems trying to find the idea I wanted to pass through my website. I worked for a long time as an interface designer, or just webdesigner, doing EVERYTHING. I remember only starting to use wireframes in my process in 2010. However, before it, I used to draw the structure in a paper. This is part of my personal process. And I always try to teach my students that when you work with web, you need a pencil and a paper in your hands.
As I said, I’m in a moment now that I’m reviewing my process. As an interface designer I had good work experiences, but I miss UX concepts, that makes more sense to me.
User experience design is the process of continually learning about users.
As an experience designer we should go after questions not answers. That’s the first stage of a project. Good design is problem solving.
However UX is not just about the user: content, context and users should be integrated.
Planning the structure of a website, through information architecture and content inventory is important in the beginning of the process. With that it’s possible to create a prototype with real content and preview possible mistakes and adjustments.
The three core UX attributes for a great experience design are: vision, culture and feedback
I don’t understand why some people keep seeing the website as only a visual process. Where is the design concept?
What we see is Visual Design, but what we don’t see is 90%. If we can imagine an iceberg, we only see the surface and we miss the skeleton, structure, scope and strategy, that are part of the whole experience. That’s why sometimes it can be unfair only to consider the visual part of the process. Believe me or not, this happens.
I understand the role of the interface designer. However my concern is… Is that what I really want now?
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