I’m so glad I came to this conference. It was almost a last time decision, but I can tell you now that I won’t loose one more.
The are 4 reasons for that.
At this time, everyone has probably heard the sad news. Hillman Curtis has passed away…
But I didn’t came here to talk about his death. I came to talk about his life.
The first time I saw him personally was at the OFFF Festival in 2007. Oh man, what an inspiration he was at that time (already). I remember seeing the Movement Study movie he made and just be… wow… But the first thing that made me never forget about him was his will to get out of his confort zone. He went from graphic and webdesigner in his early days to became film maker ’till his last days. And he started because he wanted to. For the majority of the common mortals, it’s not an easy switch. Basically it’s a “start from scratch” situation. But he embraced change. And won.
In the last WGIDesign/Adobe User Group I talked about ideas and creativity. It was a slightly different talk from the one I gave at gotoAndSki(‘Switzerland’). It went really really well and I loved the audience reactions to some exercises. Most of all, it was fun 
Here are the slide. Enjoy! 
I’ve decided to remove my slides because I was invited to give more talks on this theme. The only reason is that some of the exercises only work in a surprise scenario
Another year, another victory.
The 2012 gotoAndSki(); edition went as expected: awesome. Networking, fun, snow, friendship, geekness, talks, all of that was present in this great conference. Like in last year’s edition, everything went smoothly and we all ended up enjoying it.
Once again, congratulations to Fernando and David for putting up a different and great conference. I’m looking forward to be at gotoAndSki(); 2013!
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Afters 7,5 years working at Active Media, I’ve decided to change my life. I have so much to thank them, specially to Jorge Oliveira who has been a reference since my early start in the business.
But the time has come. I’m going to be a full time freelancer.
Projects for the future? Tons of them. But let’s take one step at a time. I’m available for hiring from now on.
Now, lets rock & roll!
Although I’m not the author, I must share and record in this blog 5 topics that Brad talks in his article on Smashing Magazine:
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It’s with an extreme honor that I’ll be in this years Flash Camp Portugal as a speaker.
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This was a great surprise. I was invited to speak next Thursday (3 November) on the second portuguese HTML5 community event.
It’s with great pleasure that I announce that in January 2012 I’ll be at gotoAndSki(‘Switzerland’); as a speaker
After spending some amazing days in last year conference, like I told in this post, it was with great joy that I got Fernando invitation to present the “non-geek” talk of the event. I called the talk “Hello Ideas” and it will be like this:
To much has been said about UXLx for the last days. You just need to do a search on Twitter to see that. So what can I add? Nothing special, really… “Awesome”, “amazing”, “perfect”, “mind blowing” are not new adjectives to characterize the conference. They were used last year and abused on this one.
UXLx is the world’s User Experience and Interaction Design best conference. Simple as that. It’s a 3 days event where the first 2 are workshops and some short talks and the last day is where the big names talk.
I had the fortune to work as a Partner while at Active Media. Actually what you see in this photo was developed by me (and designed by a colleague). Working with Bruno, the head master behind UXLx, was nothing but great. Fast decision maker, know what he wants, a dream of a client…
I’l try to resume what the conference was to me with some quotes and thoughts of who I liked the most. So, let the game begin.
