Beatriz de Paulo
Product & UI Designer
My skill set is focused on UI Design, like live and static prototyping, and supporting workflows with user interfaces and design assets. I have experience working close to developers, UX professionals, and usability experts, creating and supporting the implementation of UI prototypes. I am also interested in the subjects of user-centered Data Visualisation, and the creation and management of Design Systems. My work is always supported by strategic design and user research methodologies, like Design Thinking and its variations. I also have experience in Graphic and Industrial Design projects and working as a freelance digital artist.
Research Project
Interactions between social media use, product experience and wellbeing
During the past decade, smartphones and mobile apps have become part of the daily lives of most people around the world. While we spend an average of 4 daily hours using the internet via smartphones, half of this time is dedicated to social media and messaging apps. Implicitly or explicitly, designers are responsible for the emotional experiences that products can convey, as well as for their impact on the wellbeing of users. Since social media and messaging apps are products with many particularities with a heterogeneous and massive audience, and that emotional experiences and their relationship with wellbeing are complex phenomena, the research proposal aims to analyze the diversity of emotional experiences and wellbeing impacts related to social media and messaging apps. The present dissertation aims to analyze the diversity of emotional and meaning experiences with social media apps, and propose healthy ways to design interactions with them.
Publications
de Paulo, B., & Quaresma, M. (2022). Outlining Experience and Well-Being in the Interaction with Social Media Apps. In N. L. Black, W. P. Neumann, & I. Noy (Eds.), Proceedings of the 21st Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2021). IEA 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 223 (pp. 12–19). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74614-8_2
Paulo, B., Damazio, V., & Quaresma, M. (2020). Looking through the window: emotional experiences of Instagram users in isolation. Strategic Design Research Journal, 13, 586–598. https://doi.org/10.4013/sdrj.2020.133.23