User Experience (UX) is a term that refers to how users of products and services experience the usage of these products and services. It therefore encompasses a much wider domain than the related fields of interaction design and service design. There have been a couple of articles in blogs and other online media that discuss the domain of UX:

Helge Fredheim: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/03/15/why-user-experience-cannot-be...

Oliver Reichenstein: http://www.informationarchitects.jp/en/can-experience-be-designed-2/

Dane Petersen: http://www.adaptivepath.com/ideas/can-experience-be-designed

Jodi Forlizzi: http://interactions.acm.org/content/?p=1397

"Violence Against women is intolerable. It can, and must, be stopped.

Join the United Nations and create an ad that says “No to Violence Against Women”.

Under the banner Create4theUN, we are, once again, reaching out to the European creative community, professionals and non-professionals, to invite you to participate in the 2011 European competition initiated by UNRIC (UN Regional Information Centre for Western Europe)."

Read more at http://www.create4theun.eu/

Knowledge Centre for Smart Textiles invites textile, fashion design and engineering students to participate in the international Prize Competition Future Textiles. Students compete with fellow students to present the best idea within smart textiles. Read more here: http://www.futuretextiles.dk/competition

Concurso Internacional para Estudantes de Design

6500 Euros para Design Inovador com Têxteis Inteligentes

O Centro de Reabilitação do Norte promove um concurso, aberto a alunos de design gráfico e comunicação, para criação da sua imagem gráfica institucional.

Aqui encontram o regulamento do concurso e o formulário de participação.

Boa sorte!!

S7NERGIES – for a creative 7D WORLD

Margarida Sousa, PhD
Friday, 4 February, 2011 - 15:00
Sala de Documentação, Floor 2, UMa

"The combination of creative energies and the need to perform at the highest level to keep up with peers lead to an otherwise unattainable commitment to excellence. This is the alchemy of synergy.

We will apply this concept in an outstanding multidisciplinary project by using Madeira museums as a canvas and design thinking, multimedia, psychology, science, history, computer science, marketing… as our toolsets.

Video of the presentation made at Codebits IV, Nov. 2010 by Célia Leocádio where she talks a little about Usability, Perception, Prototypes, Usability Testing, ...

video: Usability - A matter of perception?

Visualising large sets of information, such as complex schedules, is a challenging task. When given this task for, e.g., a web site, the easy way out would be to create tables and indexes and some kind of navigation system like a menu to access the data. This approach would lead to a web page that would quickly bore the user and would finding what you need an annoying job. Not so with the example shown here, which is a very clever way of giving an overview of the World Championship's schedule of matches. Without a single click, the user can navigate the schedule and get instant information while keeping a very clear overview. A great and innovative interface.

HTML has been around for quite some time now and the current version that is regarded as standard is version 4.01. This version first appeared at the end of the last century(!) in 1999, so it's time for a new version: HTML5.

ZON Multimedia has recently opened a competition on Creativity in Multimedia. Big prizes to win, including a scholarship for one year of study in the USA. Read all about it on this web page: http://www.zon.pt/premio/

The United Nations Regional Information Centre in Brussels is launching a European print advertisement competition open to all European citizens. In 2000 world leaders committed to reducing poverty by half by 2015. There are only five years to go. World leaders are meeting again in New York in September. Unleash your imagination to remind our leaders of their promise.

Create an Ad Against Poverty