Filipe Levi
Filipe has been practicing User-Centered Design since 2003, researching on User Experience at CESAR. His job (and passion) is about understanding who people are, what they value and how they live, in order to design valuable experiences that improve their quality of life. He is actively engaged in developing the culture of User-Centered Design in Brazil.
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Recife had its first World Usability Day event this year. It was a unique opportunity when almost everyone involved with UCD in Recife got together to talk about what local industry and academia are doing and what they are going to do in the next years.
Most of attendees were local leaders, professors, practitioners, students and general audience. We received almost 200 people, though our expectations were 100 attendees. The event was completely free. It started at 5:00pm and lasted until 10:00pm, due only to the advanced hour. All the presentations, interviews and debates (podcasts and videos) are going to be available soon on the event website.
WUD Recife was organized by UXrecife, which is a fruit of UXnet and was proudly supported by it. We have never organized any event, but team work and volunteering can do more than you realize! UXrecife has now more than 80 colaborators and people in Recife are even more passionate about developing a UCD culture in our locale. WUD was a great opportunity to deeply understand our local context and comunicate the value of user experience design to the whole community.
As a local ambassador in a country where UCD is in its first steps, i’d like to encourage all people in similar settings to keep the hard work of evangelizing the bennefits of user experience among companies around you. WUD is a great chance to do that, so get started to think about your 2008 local event! 
Posted in Recife, Brazil
Tags: WUD2007recap
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
| November 8, 2007 |
| 5:00 pm | to | 8:30 pm |
This year, UXrecife is organizing the first edition of World Usability Day in Recife. Usability practitioners and researchers will talk about their ideas on how industry and academia can act to empower the culture of human-centered Design in our city. The event will take place November 8th (Thursday) at the auditorium of Livraria Cultura.
Event schedule
17h00 - Opening
17h15 - Presentations
- Genésio Gomes Neto (FIR)
- H.D.Mabuse (Recife Center for Advanced Studies and Systems)
- Marcelo Eduardo (Nokia Institute of Technology)
- Ubirajara de Lucena (Móbile)
19h15 - Coffee-break
19h30 - Debate: “Past, present and future of UCD in Recife”
- Luciano Meira (Department of Psychology, UFPE)
- Alex Sandro (Center for Informatics, UFPE)
- H.D.Mabuse (Recife Center for Advanced Studies and Systems)
- Marcos Buccini (AESO & Faculdade Marista)
20h30 - Closing
More information: www.wudrecife.com.br
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
Recife (Portuguese for ‘reef’) is the 3rd largest city in the Northeastern Region of Brazil and the 5th largest metropolitan area in Brazil (3.6 million people). It’s becoming a reference for newly industrialized countries due to Porto Digital, the ICT cluster with a focus on software development. Surrounded by rivers and crossed by bridges, Recife is known as the Brazilian Venice and considered one of Brazil’s cultural capitals.
Here in Recife we launched a happy-hour network of UX practitioners in February. We call it UXrecife. The group has about 70 people from many different professional backgrounds, most of them working with UX design. Our main need/purpouse was to get people knowing each other, making friends. We strongly believe that it is the first step in order to raise an environment where greater things can be planned and run. Our basic principles are fun, informality and volunteering.
We have one presencial meeting per month, facilitated by one or more volunteers. It’s when everybody gets together to discuss the last news on UX, watch related videos and so on. Much talk, food and fun!
The remaining issues are discussed on our email list (e.g. opinios about new products, organizing barcamps, WUD events, UX conferences etc.). Since the beginning of our Yahoo group, we have had more than 2000 messages. People are very enthusiastic, including professionals from the entire country.
Our group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/uxrecife
Our blog: http://uxrecife.blogspot.com
Our WUD 2007 site: http://www.wudrecife.com.br
Posted in Recife, Brazil
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