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Watch Avi Itzkovitch’s “Designing with Sensors: Creating Adaptive Experiences” talk at Interaction’14 | IxDA Conference

"Designing with Sensors: Creating Adaptive Experiences" by Avi Itzkovitch

Watch Avi Itzkovitch to discover core concepts for utilizing smart device technologies and sensor data in order to understand context, and add “Adaptive Thinking” to the UX professional’s toolset when designing experiences. In his presentation, Avi demonstrates the importance of understanding context when designing adaptive experiences, gives ideas on how to design adaptive systems and most important, inspires designers to think how smart device technology and context aware applications can enhance the user experience with adaptivity […]

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Economics Trend Watching

Economy in Brazil: the 5th most expensive Big Mac in the world

Post author By Itamar Medeiros
Post date January 27, 2014
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Economy in Brazil: the 5th most expensive Big Mac in the world

Brazil has the fifth most expensive Big Mac in the world, costing $ 5.25. The McDonald’ snack is used as an index for the British magazine The Economist since 1986, to show the purchasing power of the currencies of the countries surveyed, according to the last calculation released recently. The Big Mac index suggests that […]

Tags Brazil, economist, Economy, food, India, location, Sweden, Switzerland, the Economist, United States

Information Technology Trend Watching

Information Technology in Brazil: cloud computing is expected to move US$ 798 million in 2015

Post author By Itamar Medeiros
Post date January 22, 2014
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Internet in Brazil

The cloud computing sector generated US$ 257 million in Brazil in 2013, and can reach US$ 798 million in 2015, according to the IDC […]

Tags America, analyst, Brazil, Computing, IDC, Information Technology, Internet, location, Market, Microsoft, retail, revenue, São Paulo, Technology, Web, Work

Consumer Behavior Trend Watching

Consumer Behavior in Brazil: iPad mini is the world’s most expensive

Post author By Itamar Medeiros
Post date July 1, 2013
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iPad Mini arrives quietly to Brazil (Photo: Gustavo Petró/G1)

Released recently, the iPad Mini in Brazil has the highest value among all the official channels of the Apple Store. According to IT Data Consulting, the difference between the value of imports and sales is 115% […]

Tags America, analyst, Apple, Bank, Brazil, Canada, Consumer Behavior, Denmark, Gaming, Gross Domestic Product, iPad, location, model, Paris, retail, São Paulo, Technology, The World Bank, United States

Economics Information Technology Trend Watching

Internet in Brazil: Active Internet users grew 14% year-on-year

Post author By Itamar Medeiros
Post date November 9, 2011
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The number of active Internet users in Brazil in September 2011 was 46,300,000, an increase of 14% over the same month last year. With the new number, Brazil beats Germany, France and the UK in number of active users at home or at work. The Brazil ranks third in the list of countries that monitor the internet using the same methodology […]

Tags Brazil, Computer, Environment, France, Germany, Internet, Internet Access, Internet Cafe, Internet use, Internet Users, Japan, location, Nielsen, United States, Web, Work

China Consumer Behavior Economics Trend Watching

China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: Hotel industry experiences building boom

Post author By Itamar Medeiros
Post date August 15, 2011
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China is witnessing an unprecedented boom in hotel construction that is changing the face of the global hospitality industry. The country will have the highest number of hotels under construction and room openings in the world for each of the next two years, according to figures released by Lodging Econometrics, the US-based hotel retail estate market analysts […]

Tags analyst, Asia, Australia, Beijing, Beijing Olympics, China, China Daily, Construction, Consultant, Consumer Behavior, Development, Economy, Europe, Foreigner, France, Gaming, Guangxi, Guangzhou, Hebei, India, Japan, location, London, Market, Nanning, real estate, Report, retail, Russia, Shanghai, Singapore, tourism, United States, Work

Design Economics Trend Watching

Watch James Howard Kunstler dissects suburbia at TED

Post author By Itamar Medeiros
Post date August 9, 2011
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In James Howard Kunstler’s view, public spaces should be inspired centers of civic life and the physical manifestation of the common good. Instead, he argues, what we have in America is a nation of places not worth caring about […]

Tags Amazon, America, Architect, Architecture, Design, Development, Energy, location, Media, TED conference, Urban Area, Urban Development Projects, Urban Patterns, Urban Planning, Urbanization

China Design Economics Readings Trend Watching

Shanghai World Expo: SAUDI ARABIA PAVILION

Post author By Itamar Medeiros
Post date October 9, 2010
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Covering a total area of 6,000 square meters, no one can miss the Saudi Arabia pavilion at Shanghai World Expo: it’s a huge structure with a singular design, unique location, and a boat-like, design pointing in the direction of Makkah […]

Tags China, Design, Flickr, location, Media, photography, Saudi Arabia, Shanghai, Shanghai World Expo, Web

Design Economics Information Technology Readings Trend Watching

Listen to Don Turnbull & John Tolva’s “Metropolitan Information Architecture: The future of UX, Databases, and the (Information) Architecture of complex, urban environments” talk at IA Summit 2010

John Tolva

How does information architecture and design synchronize with urban architecture? How does mobile communication and web culture impact the streetscape?

Tags Architect, Architecture, Boxes and Arrows, Design, Don Turnbul, Environment, IA Summit 2010, Information Architect, information architecture, John Tolva, location, Podcast, UX, Web

China Information Technology Innovation Trend Watching

Internet in China: savvy China plugs into future

Post author By Itamar Medeiros
Post date July 3, 2010
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The idea of a world where even everyday objects, such as books and air-conditioners, are plugged into an Internet network seems like a scenario from a science-fiction movie. China is tapping into such a world […]