A short primer on health literacy — The information age is upon us and for the first time in History we have virtually endless knowledge readily available at our fingertips. If you have any question about any topic at any time of day, odds are you can discover the answer in mere seconds. …

If you look far enough down the road, the future looks very different from what many people think — Countless articles and opinion pieces have been pushing for the learning of programming in schools for the last years, and almost invariably the justification is that since coding is the language of the future, our children should learn it to be better prepared for what’s to come. It’s true that…

The user experience (UX) of a product is how that product interacts with its users and how they respond to it. No matter how perfect or ingenious your solution is, if people cannot understand how it works or think it’s too cumbersome to use, they may not even bother with…

It started with Snapchat, but now everyone is doing it — Snap(chat) Inc. struck gold. …

An amazing payment app with a usability problem — The interbank network Multibanco (MB), owned and operated by SIBS, is something that I’m very proud of as a Portuguese. Having lived in and visited many countries worldwide, I have missed its endless functionalities and amazing user experience too many times to count. It honestly is by far the best…

Google made one giant leap for humankind, but it is still just one small step — Last week, Google Duplex was shown to the world for the first time at Google I/O. In case you missed it, Google Duplex is an AI innovation that allows a user to ask Google Assistant to make a call for them, avoiding wasting time calling businesses to do tasks such…

Most mockup-building apps are paid, from Sketch to Moqups; even simple wireframe-building apps such as Balsamiq Mockups are often not free. And while professional designers may want to acquire at least one good solution, I was until very recently a full-time grad student, so my budget has always been quite…

Android 8.0 introduced a new kind of launcher icons: adaptive icons. The idea is to adjust each app’s icon to specific versions of Android, since some OEM give preference to squares, circles, squircles, or teardrops. …