Everything published on October, 2008

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The end of products, the rise of services

It’s not something new to say that product design is “changing” into service design. But many people still don’t get it quite well. What do you mean? No products?
Yes. No products, at least in some specific situations. As I use to say, you don’t have to own an electric drill. You have to be able [...]

Sunday, October 26, 2008

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Dilbert and usability

Scott Adams is the best. :-)

Saturday, October 25, 2008

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Presentations available in SlideShare

Busy month. I’ve been to 2 different events (P&D Design and EBAI), presenting some of the research I’ve been doing during my PhD studies.
I have much to tell about both events. But there’s also much things to catch up, to write and to read, and there’s no time to summarize my impressions properly right now.
Anyway, [...]

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

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Implicações da Inteligência Ambiental para a Arquitetura de Informação e o Design de Interação

Presentation made at the 2nd. Brazilian Information Architects’ Conference (EBAI).

Friday, October 17, 2008

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Nanotechnology and Nokia Morph Concept

It has been a long time now since Nokia presented the Nokia Morph concept video, sharing their vision about how nanotechnology could be used on future communication devices.
I first saw it mentioned in IxDA discussion group. At that time I wrote my impressions about it, and today I got back to it for some [...]

Monday, October 13, 2008

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Autoria e Comunicação no Design de Interação

Presentation made at P&D Design 2008, 8th Brazilian Conference on Design Research and Development.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

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New books!

My books finally arrived!

I’m almost embarrassed to say that I have never read Adam Greenfield’s Everyware before – it has been on my ‘wish list’ for ages! But I guess is still time to catch up with this “almost-classic” book about ubiquitous computing. The interesting thing about it is that it was written by a [...]

Sunday, October 5, 2008

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