I just had an article published on the third issue of The ‘Radical’ Designist: a Design Culture Journal (ThRAD), which is an on-line referred journal devoted to the publication of Design and Material Culture papers. It’s published by UNIDCOM/IADE´s (Unidade de Investigação em Design e Comunicação do Instituto de Artes Visuais Design e Marketing) department, [...]
Monday, April 27, 2009
Discusses the role of designers and users in the authorship of messages and products. It highlights three moments in design history, in which different notions of authorship are perceived: the period related to the modernist design and the International Style; the first years of the 90’s, with the post-modern visual rhetoric; the beginning of the XXI century, with the information revolution and Web 2.0. As a conclusion, considering the presence of ubiquitous computing in the future, addresses some topics that update the discussion about authorship, emphasizing the importance of deepening the discussions about communication processes in the design field.
Monday, April 27, 2009
First class of the discipline “Pervasive Computing and Mobility”, for the Interaction Design course of Faber-Ludens Institute
Saturday, April 25, 2009
About Microsoft Surface and it’s basic usability pitfalls.
Friday, April 24, 2009
Panopticon prison is finally a reality. TSI Prism system tracks inmates using RFID technology!
Thursday, April 16, 2009
I’ve recently discovered the Touch research project. For those interested in pervasive computing, I strongly suggest to visit their website often.
Touch is a research project that investigates Near Field Communication (NFC), a technology that enables connections between mobile phones and physical things.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
This video is not exactly new, but just today I had a chance to watch it, and got very impressed. Not only because of the scenario Microsoft envision for the future, on how computational devices will be embedded in our surroundings. Many people have already described it, and there’s nothing new about it.
But one thing [...]
Wednesday, April 1, 2009