dias normais

Year: 2019

  • The Instagrammeuphoria

    The Instagrammeuphoria

    From this Vox article:

    Instagram has a way of flattening lived experiences so that my best years look exactly like my bad ones, and that everything seems pretty good, all the time, for everyone. This, obviously, is not how life works for most people, and ever since Instagram has existed experts have debated what seeing an infinite scroll of other people’s happy moments is doing to our brains.

    Then it goes on:

    […] Even when you know it isn’t real, that social media is a highlight reel of people’s lives and you shouldn’t compare yourself to anyone else, that it’s a trap and it will only make you feel bad about your life, which is overall probably a perfectly fine one, Instagram still has real, material consequences. Being good at Instagram is a ticket to more likes, more followers, more tiny hits of dopamine and ultimately more fame and money; a platform to launch a creative project and sell it, to be able to live the life we’re supposed to want.

    The whole article is worth a read.

  • Found This Gang of Lego Minifigures in Cologne

    Found This Gang of Lego Minifigures in Cologne

    Last week I went to a LEGO Store for the first time in Cologne, Germany, and they are amazing! They have these kiosks on each corner of the store with thousands of little pieces that you can use to create your own Minifigure set.

    These are the three minifigs Fernanda and I made:

    Lego Minifigures

    How cool are they? 😀

  • Animating a UI with Origami Studio

    To kick things off in my new creative process series, I decided to revisit an old project I did back in 2017 and make a small animation using the Origami Studio app.

    This app allows the creation of highly interactive prototypes using a visual programming language. The prototypes can also be recorded, which is useful to share with colleagues and stakeholders. As you can see, the animations add an interesting level of fluidity to the user interface.

    In the future, I plan to share more about how I make these animations, some mistakes, insights, and other exciting stuff I learn along the way.

  • End of hiatus

    End of hiatus

    I’ve meaning to write this for a while now. 2 months, 18 days to be more precise. It’s been a long, long time since I posted on the blog, to be honest.

    Much has happened in between, but I will spare you from the boring parts. The most recent, most exciting thing that happened is that I am now living in Germany with my wonderful, talented, amazing girlfriend and partner in crime adventures Fernanda.

    We moved at the end of July to Berlin and stayed there for a couple months while she was studying German. At the end of September, we moved again, now we are in Detmold, a cute little town in the Nordrhein-Westfalia state.

    As of now, Fernanda is attending to her master’s course in Computational Design at the TH-OWL (Technische Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe), and I am actively, emphatically looking for a job.

    I am practically applying for every UI/UX Design position I find on LinkedIn, Xing, StepStone, Adzuna, Experteer… you name it.

    Last week, for example, I was in Düsseldorf for a job interview at a company headquarters. It was great and all to meet some of the team. I felt I’d done an excellent job presenting myself, talking about my previous experiences at Wine.com.br, Pixter, my design thought and process, and all these things you want to say to show you’re the ideal candidate.

    The thing is I didn’t make it this time, unfortunately. The feedback I received briefly noted my subpar workshop experience and lacking English skills. That’s true, I guess. These are things I will definitely work on my future applications.

    My beloved Fernanda is going to help me with some English practicing in the evenings, and I am continually improving my CV and Portfolio to really stand out from the competition and feel more confident during the interviews.

    Tomorrow a technician from O2 is finally coming to install the internet in our apartment. Hopefully, it will work smoothly because I’ve been connecting to a nearby T-Mobile hotspot, and it’s far from stable, to say the least.

    Piece by piece, our dachgeschoss apartment is getting more comfy and complete. We’ve already got some kitchenware from IKEA, a vacuum cleaner to keep the carpet clean, a smart LED lightbulb from LIFX to help us wake up in the morning, but we still need new furniture. Bed and mattress, working table, TV set, chairs, stool, sideboard, wardrobe, bathroom cabinet, mirror, additional light fixtures… and a lot more sigh. Lucky for us, we got awesome friends, one of which kindly lent us a larger air mattress to sleep on.

    Meanwhile… Autumn’s in full swing in Detmold, and I can’t wait for what’s coming in the next weeks!

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