October 2011
1 post
May 2011
1 post
X-Ray: Bob Dylan
thedailyfeed:
Our musical mathematician breaks down what makes up performers. By @Discographies.
February 2011
1 post
August 2010
2 posts
“Can you please confirm that you are Web 2.0 compliant so that we cannot be sued...”
– (via clientsfromhell)
July 2010
2 posts
March 2010
3 posts
I'm mad at everyone
No, not you. Not anyone in particular, actually.
I’m angry at the idea of ‘everyone’ and what they want and what they say.
Everyone says you should do your site and your online presence a certain way.
Everyone is upset at what you did.
Everyone is frustrated at the slow pace government is getting this done.
Everyone knows you should listen to your customers and do what they...
Excellent "out of the box" ways for creatives to...
1. Watch an old classic movie or tv-show
2. Visit a market
3. Travel
4. Explore your own home
5. Listen to new music
6. Random Wikipedia-articles
7. Make a list of bad ideas (!!)
8. Pick up a new hobby
9. Read a biography
10. Smell the flowers
11. Explore YouTube
12. Reconnect with old friends
13. Visit the Twitterverse
14. Play a “mindless” computer-game
15. Sing and dance
16....
From less to more: The Power of Positive Thought
You’re fickle
Why’s that such a problem? To be fickle means you want to achieve greater things. Fickle is a synonym for professionalism. If you’re blase, you’re on the road to failure.
You move quickly between projects
You’re a creative – you seek and crave new objectives, new things to see, experience, feel. This is a perfectly natural part of the job. Why see this as a problem? The stumbling...
July 2009
1 post
April 2009
8 posts
“Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.”
– C.W. Ceram
“The best way to begin an optimization project is to make sure that all your code...”
– Brandon Olejniczak - A list a part
“ It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people...”
– Steve Jobs via @uxquotes
“Twitter spam. Really? Are you even paying attention? I’ll say it again, you...”
– Cooper Journal: One free interaction
“Less mass, less software, less features, less paperwork, less of everything...”
– Signals vs. Noise
“Making my new folio with ‘Less is more’ is bullshit version :-)”
User Experience design is NOT…
1 – User interface design – It is the system 2 – A step in the process – It is the process 3 – Just about technology – It is about behavior 4 – Just about usability – It is about value 5 – Just about the user – It is about context 6 – Expensive – It is flexible 7 – Easy – It is a balancing act 8 – The role of one person or dept – It is a culture 9 – A single discipline – It is a collaboration 10 –...
Startups in 13 sentences.
1. Pick good cofounders. 2. Launch fast. 3. Let your idea evolve. 4. Understand your users. 5. Better to make a few users love you than a lot ambivalent. 6. Offer surprisingly good customer service. 7. You make what you measure. 8. Spend little. 9. Get ramen profitable. 10. Avoid distractions. 11. Don’t get demoralized. 12. Don’t give up. 13. Deals fall through.
yeah! ready said ..!
February 2008
6 posts
“Search for a new apartment - impossible is nothing”
Strange life. Weird days.
Somedays i feel that people not speaking the same language. Then i figure out that in my little picky world all people speaks each one other by thoughts. lately i have been alone. quiet. Today, i wake up excited listening Juliet The licks. Curitiba´s sun outside . Finally carnival it´s over and i will take off my earphones and back to my normal routine: Work > home > work > home…
“while(life) year++;”
“I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code”
last days (?) . . .
Aloha All!
My last days has been bored. Who met me knows that i am workaholic and my live has been resumed for: Job > Home > Search for a new apartment In times like these i thank to be a little autist. In my little picklle world everything is perfect! The people programming by pleasure and nobody needs rent an apartment to live.
In my world everything works by yourself. We work seated...
Aloha All!
Aloha galera! Após o carnaval me veio a idéia de criar um Tumblr para guardar algumas anotações rápidas. Não! blog não!, os leitores ficam viciados. A Idéia é mais um cantinho pessoal para postar o dia-a-dia de um jovem entusiasta de I.T. Resumo básico: Maurivan Luiz, 20 anos, brasileiro, vegetariano, macmaniaco e geek por opção,