Want to learn UX design? Start here. — Every once in a while I get a request from a friend or design student* about which books to read or which blogs to follow in order to get started or just improve their craft as designers. To give a definite answer for that question, here’s a comprehensive list of…

What we look for when we (don't) hire designers — As member of a multidisciplinary design team that's always hiring, evaluating design portfolios is a daily practice here at VTEX. Being always up to date on what’s produced by other designers in the industry is not only a unique opportunity, but a task I take very seriously, as I get…

O que olhamos quando contratamos (ou não) designers — Como membro de uma equipe de design multidisciplinar que só cresce, avaliar portfólios é uma prática quase diária na VTEX. Estar constantemente a par do que é produzido por designers do mercado é para mim uma oportunidade única, além de um trabalho que levo muito a sério, especialmente estando em…

Writing about your own work can be hard. Writing about a past project is even harder — information is not so fresh and documentation might be lost. …

Lessons from a year of designing products with 100+ people — VTEX is an online commerce platform with headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, almost 200 employees and 60+ software developers. Our clients range from big enterprise operations to small shops in over 11 countries around the world. When I joined the team a year ago, I didn’t really have a lot…

Ou para qualquer um que queira usar, mas não sabe por onde começar — Escrever código é difícil. Em um dia ruim, para cada minuto que você passa vendo seu código funcionar, passa mais 10 tentando descobrir o que tá dando errado. Escrever código com Git é difícil. Escrever código sem Git é impensável. De desenvolvedores sênior a designers que recém começaram a brincar…

Or anyone who really wants to use it but has no idea how — Writing code is hard. For every 1 minute of bliss typing characters in the computer and seeing it render things that didn’t exist before, there are 10 minutes of frustration with unreadable code and bugs that didn’t exist the night before. Writing code with Git is hard. Writing code without…

Or how to have 100 apps and a bunch of them, well, a bunch of them kinda suck. Apple’s value ever since its Renaissance has relied on a tightly integrated Ecosystem The iPod wouldn’t have been a phenomenon without the iTunes Store. The iPad wouldn’t have sold as much as it did without the iPhone and their shared apps and services. And now OSX is getting closer than ever to iOS with the release of Yosemite.