Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Figma, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Adobe CC
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joaofaraco/
  Email: jpfaraco (at) gmail (dot) com

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I am a Product Designer with 10+ years of experience. I began my professional journey working at design studios and gradually migrated towards digital product design. My specialization came about through entrepreneurship, graduate programs and experience in tech companies, from startups to larger enterprises.

Although my recent role was managerial, I am deeply committed to maintaining a hands-on approach, leading by example to inspire creativity and excellence within the team.

I was laid off last month, so I'm exploring where I might focus on now and have been studying and experimenting a lot this month. Whether you're looking for a founding partner, aiming to elevate the design maturity in your organization, or anything in between, let's chat.

  Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Figma, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Adobe CC
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joaofaraco/
  Email: jpfaraco (at) gmail (dot) com

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I am a Product Designer with 10+ years of experience. I began my professional journey working at design studios and gradually migrated towards digital product design. My specialization came about through entrepreneurship, graduate programs and experience in tech companies, from startups to larger enterprises.

Although my recent role was managerial, I am deeply committed to maintaining a hands-on approach, leading by example to inspire creativity and excellence within the team.

I was laid off last week, so I'm starting to explore where I might focus on now. Whether you're looking for a founding partner, aiming to elevate the design maturity in your organization, or anything in between, let's chat.

I think adding the 3D parallax gives the footage a very unique effect, and quite different from the traditional Ken Burns 2D scale and pan. I would say enough to make it deserve its own name, such as the sniklaus effect. Ken Burns is Ken Burns. This is something quite different, even though it may be inspired by KB.

I would be happy if it gets its own name in the future. I am voting against "sniklaus" effect though since this was a team effort and I could not have done it without my mentors.

About the related cake mix story: I recently found that the reason why the Betty Crocker cake mix increased in sales is dubious, if not false.

Apparently, sales went up because adding fresh eggs to the mix simply produced superior cakes — http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/cakemix.asp

I've seen this false attribution effect in software design too. "Let's use kanban instead of scrum to build this new platform with a stack that fits our business better being built by the two senior engineers we've since hired."

Oh look, the new platform is coming along great, all glory to kanban.

I wonder how they are addressing the lack of standardization of NFC protocols, which has essentially prevented NFC from taking off..

Good question. We're seeing some consolidation though. One example, we were frustrated about the idea of having to go city to city building partnerships with local transit authorities for our customers to be able to use their Token in place of their transit card. But in partnership with Mastercard we're working to standardize transit systems to use EMV as the standard open protocol instead of proprietary Mifare protocols. We've had some luck, over 80 cities will be live with this in 2017. Chicago and London were among the first. We also are BLE compatible.

Love this. +1 to permalinks, and would love to see better typography -- IMO replacing Tahoma with Open Sans Regular, or Light would go a long way. And perhaps a serif font for the planet name...