Monthly Archives: February 2005

Lost in Madrid

How can one forget to bring the map to get to the Usability Course? Me and Ivo got lost this morning trying to get to the course. We had an idea of the address (thankfully!) and after looking for a … Continue reading

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It will be nice to JOIN 2005

Monday I’ll be in Braga for the JOIN 2005 conference. On day 1 Michael Schwern will give two talks about Lessons in Testing from the Real World and Design of Everyday Interfaces. Following that a talk by two other guys … Continue reading

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Methodologies of Usability Course in Madrid

Despite the heavy snow, this weekend I’ll be in Madrid for a course on Usability Methodologies. The course will cover User Testing, Heuristic Analysis, Card Sorting (an Information Architecture technique), Interface Prototyping and in the end a glimpse on Usability … Continue reading

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The Midas List and where are they investing

Forbes published a list of the top 100 technology dealmakers. Google (and its IPO) is the company that enabled John Doerr, Michael Moritz and Lawrence Sonsini to be at the top 3 investors that made more money from tech ventures … Continue reading

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Rebranding TAP

TAP (Portuguese National Air Company) is one of the most recognized brands in Portugal. That’s why they are putting so much effort in a new rebranding. Brandia is the company behind the new face-lifting. The process will take around 2 … Continue reading

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Blinkenlights: is this art or game?

This morning Ivo sent YAFM (yet another funny mail) with the link to the Blinkenlights project. It is an old project but surely it will have a long life as a icon event. So much that they did a return … Continue reading

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Stop. If you care.

BBC News writer Ivan Noble was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour in August 2002. Since then he has been sharing his experiences in an online diary. Yesterday he died aged 37. He prepared his final column, Tumour diary: The … Continue reading

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