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Companies consumes people

This is a consideration about the article O que nos move para novidades? (What drives us to the newness): like people do, companies do research and analyse before consuming because, after all, they are (legal) persons too.

I don't mean about theirs product consume, but about their 'people consuming': companies consumes our money, time, energy, desires... As we need food for beeing alive, they need our money for the same reason.

We need food, clothes and medicines; but, we need so much of everything they offer to us?

Are you midful about how much are you beeing 'consumed'?

Como seria o curso ideal sobre visualização da informação?

Contextualização: 
Estamos formatando um curso sobre Visualização da Informação, mas estamos na dúvida se incluímos Processing no conteúdo ou não. Processing é uma linguagem de programação feita para designers e artistas gerarem gráficos dinâmicos de forma muito simples. Apesar de ser fácil, talvez não seja de interesse de quem trabalha ou pretende trabalhar com Visualização da Informação. Estamos abertos à sugestões!
Com programação básica para quem nunca programou
44% (4 votes)
Com programação básica para quem conhece um pouco
33% (3 votes)
Com programação avançada para quem já programou
11% (1 vote)
Sem programação
11% (1 vote)
Não estou interessado
0% (0 votes)
Total votes: 9

Browsing metaphor sketches

Click the images below for bigger versions:Exploring the Rubik Cube as a navigation metaphor for Firefox Browser.

CubeZilla Concept - Reinventing the tabs in the Navigator.

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Mozilla Labs (in partnership with IxDA and Johnny Holland) proposed the Design Challenge'09 with the following topics:

"Reinventing the tabs in the Navigator - How can we create, navigate and manage multiple sites within the same instance of a browser?” 

It is very common among our users, currently have multiple tabs opened in the browser, running programs, Skype, MSN, social networking, e-mails and other applications in the same time. When we need to navigate between the tabs and still remember which position was the last tab that we’re doing searches, becomes a difficult thing to manage. 

After some ideas, sketches and discussions at our meetings for brainstorming, we observed that the Rubik cube shows a non-linear multiple information represented in the squares or colors when ordered. 

Home appliance heuristic evaluation

Click the images below for bigger versions:Students had to critic home appliances in spite of Universal Design Principles.

Basket-bot assignment

Click the images below for bigger versions:The students had to build a robot with Mindstorms that put a ball in the basket.

Electronic Horn

Click the images below for bigger versions:Toy hacking workshop. 

Food cooler

Click the images below for bigger versions:Toy Hacking workshop. Paolo Passeri created a food cooler that doesn´t spill down the food.

Imagining a tangible computer for kids

Click the images below for bigger versions:Theese concepts were generated in a creativity workshop that explored how work material influenced the results.

Turtle Hack

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This turtle play differente sounds when it´s legs are pressed and becomen silent when it´s face are blown.