{ design@tive } information design
Today, the kinds of input our computing devices support keeps growing: touch, voice, device motion, and much more. Each additional input type offers new possibilities for interaction that requires our interface designs to adapt. When will this deluge of new input types end so don’t have to keep re-designing our software? Luke Wroblewski’s — speaking at dConstruct 2013: — claims it won’t. Not until everything is input […]
The cloud computing sector generated US$ 257 million in Brazil in 2013, and can reach US$ 798 million in 2015, according to the IDC […]
Bill Buxton in this old — but still very relevant — talk advocates the need for global businesses to explore how design and design thinking can provide them with high-level, strategic value and competitive advantage […]
Dr. Genevieve Bell is an Australian-born anthropologist and researcher. As director of User Interaction and Experience in Intel Labs, Dr. Bell leads a research team of social scientists, interaction designers, human factors engineers and computer scientists. This team shapes and helps create new Intel technologies and products that are increasingly designed around people’s needs and desires […]
Mr. Marcus reviews briskly four projects that are conceptual designs for new kinds of mobile applications (smartphone and tablet with associated Web portals) that combine the theories of information design and persuasion design to change people’s behavior […]
Brazil’s Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI) has unveiled a new Strategic Program for Software and Information Technology in Brazil, announcing R$ 500 million (approximately US$ 248 million) in planned investments from 2012-2015 to build and strengthen Brazil’s competitiveness in this sector [..]
The investment funds Redpoint e.ventures announced recently will invest $ 130 million in Internet startups in Brazil. The fund is a joint venture formed by Redpoint and e.ventures that combined own shares of companies like Netflix and Groupon. The money will be applied in Brazil includes financing funds in Silicon Valley, one of the centers of innovation in the U.S.. […]
Team from Campina Grande beat renowned universities like UFPE, USP e ITA. Participants had their resumes selected for internship at Facebook […]
About 35 percent of urban Chinese use smartphones, the third-highest level in the world, a survey has found […]
Technological innovation is the foundation of a new industrial policy that the Brazilian government will deploy to improve the country’s competitiveness in domestic and foreign markets. The program will provide a variety of financial incentives for Brazilian innovators in IT as well as other industry sectors between now and 2014 […]