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Introduction
Itamar Medeiros, from Brazil, currently lives in Bonn (Germany), where he works as Senior User Experience Designer at Roamworks.
Resumé
Working in the Information Technology industry since 1998, Itamar Medeiros has developed several websites and interactive media campaigns, both as art director and, later, as creative director for several new media agencies in Pernambuco, Brazil.
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Philosophy
Learn how I’ve blended the different lenses of information design with the different variables of user experience into a Design Philosophy.
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What is Information Design?
Coined by Richard Saul Wurman in 1976, Information Design is a field and approach to designing clear, understandable communications by giving care to structure, context, and presentation of data and information, in the effort of making information as effective as possible.
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Living in China
With a curious mindset, inspiration and new perspectives can be found in many places and without much preparation. Living in China can sharpen your skills in observing the world around you.
Why “designative”?
The etymology of the word design goes back to the Latin ‘designare’ which means to designate, to give meaning to things… Design is not about styling. It’s not about technology. It’s about radical change in meaning. These are things that people were not asking for, but when they saw them, they fell in love.
from Roberto Verganti’s “Changing the rules of innovation by radically innovating what things mean talk” at Design Council