Design researcher & educator

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   UX Cards (2011)

   A card deck for collaborative planning user experience projects. Each card is a UX method, with the necessary inputs and the expected outputs. The cards can be organized in a linear fashion to represent the planned process. There are also cards for representing risks, expected delays, and extra human/financial resources. UX Cards enables pattern-based codesign […] - Nov 24, 2011
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   Corais Platform (2011-actual)

   Corais was launched in 2011 as the open innovation platform of Faber-Ludens Interaction Design Institute. Since 2012, it became an independent cooperative platform for cultural producers in Brazil, maintained by Instituto Ambiente em Movimento and developed by Frederick van Amstel as an outreach activity of his academic work. An open design platform Development started from […] - Nov 14, 2011
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   O Globo iPad App (2011)

   O Globo, a major newspaper in Brazil, wanted to test their new iPad app to check if it was doing good on usability. We suggested doing a benchmark against two other competitors and executing the tests not in usability laboratories, but in real use contexts. We set up a mobile lab that could capture user’s […] - Nov 14, 2011
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   Cannibalistic Interaction Design

   Last week, I was in Italy for an academic forum about Latin perspectives on Design and I presented our view from Faber-Ludens Institute. I described the context where the Institute emerged and explained our Design Livre approach for project development. Previously, I used the translation Free Design, but from now on I’ll keep the original […] - Nov 9, 2011

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