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Itamar Medeiros, from Brazil, currently lives in Shanghai (China), where he works as User Experience Manager for the Geospatial Platform and Server applications of the Infrastructure Modeling product line of the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Industry Group at Autodesk®, and helps promote Interaction Design as a local coordinator for the Interaction Design Association (IxDA). Working in the Information Technology industry since 1998, Itamar Medeiros has developed several websites and interactive media campaigns, both as art director and, later, as creative director for several new media agencies in Pernambuco, Brazil. As an Information Design specialist, served as board member of the Brazilian Society of Information Design, lead the Design Research team of the Hypermedia Lab at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, and held a lecturing position as Assistant Program Director of the Visual Communication Department of the Raffles Design Institute at DongHua University, China. Recently, he has been awarded with an MA (distinction) in Design Practice at Northumbria University (Newcastle, UK) for his thesis “Designing the User Experience: Creating Innovative Design Software Solutions within Collaborative/Distributed Design Environments”

Consumer Behavior in Brazil: Crisis boosts advancement of aviationBrazil is experiencing one of its best moments in the aviation industry, and today the country with…View Post

Consumer Behavior in Brazil: Crisis boosts advancement of aviation

Brazil is experiencing one of its best moments in the aviation industry, and today the country with…

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Watch Jason Ulaszek & Brian Winters’ “From Design Research to Experience Roadmap” talk at Interaction’13 | IxDA Conference

Have you ever been enlisted by your company or client to create a consumer “vision” for the evolution of their product or service? As design-thinking principles and activities continue to become centerstage in transforming business models, creating new…

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— 1 week ago
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Video: Touchscreen ‘that reacts even without touching’

Capacitive touch, which allows more than one finger at once to be recognised, is regularly cited as one of the key drivers of smartphone popularity. BBC’s Spencer Kellydiscovers that 2014 could the year when touchscreens are launched which react in three…

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— 2 weeks ago
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Reflecting on Standards and Frameworks in Responsive Web Design and Accessibility on UXmattersEvery month in Ask UXmatters(one of the leading resources of User Experience Professionals), a…View Post

Reflecting on Standards and Frameworks in Responsive Web Design and Accessibility on UXmatters

Every month in Ask UXmatters(one of the leading resources of User Experience Professionals), a…

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— 3 weeks ago
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Watch Nancy Duarte’s “The secret structure of great talks” at TED

From the “I have a dream” speech to Steve Jobs’ iPhone launch, all great presentations have a common architecture. At TEDxEast, Nancy Duarte draws lessons on how to make a powerful call-to-action.

Nancy Duarteis an expert in presentation design and…

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— 3 weeks ago
For Inspiration: “Mexe, Mexe” by Mundo Livre S/A

Mundo Livre S/A, is a Brazilian manguebeat band, formed in 1984 in Recife, . It is also one of the founders of that musical style, which became popular in the 1990s. Fred Zero Quatro, the band’s singer, was one of the authors of Caranguejos com…

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Internet in Brazil: banking transactions on smartphones grow more than four times in 2012Banking transactions via smartphone grew 333% in 2012, according to the 2013 edition of Banking…View Post

Internet in Brazil: banking transactions on smartphones grow more than four times in 2012

Banking transactions via smartphone grew 333% in 2012, according to the 2013 edition of Banking…

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— 1 month ago
Mobile Devices in Brazil: Government reduces taxes on smartphonesA decree signed by President Dilma Rousseff and published on Tuesday (9) reduces to zero the PISand View Post

Mobile Devices in Brazil: Government reduces taxes on smartphones

A decree signed by President Dilma Rousseff and published on Tuesday (9) reduces to zero the PISand 

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Watch Mike Lemmon’s “Design Language for Interactions” talk at IxDA | Interaction ’12 Conference

You know how you can recognize a Porsche sports car regardless of the model or year? This is effective design language at work. A design language establishes the visual vocabulary, relationships and hierarchies that allow diverse products to become…

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Watch Frederick van Amstel’s “Vernacular Interaction Design” talk at Interaction’12 | IxDA Conference

Interaction Design is a young field dedicated to how people interact with technology, but people used to interact without technology way long before it. Kid’s street games are one example of what we call Vernacular Interaction Design. Those games have…

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— 1 month ago