Rui Nunes's thoughts and ideas

I'm the Country Manager of MediaResponse™ Group, responsible for developing our major online marketing brands to evolve at the Portuguese Market.

My primary goal with this blog is to be of value to you with my experience and insights as well to be open to your questions and different approaches. Feel free to ask me anything! ;-)

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Egg Backyard Office - Let's be creative

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I'm a sucker for design and creativity and sometimes my eyes shine amazed with the brilliant minds behind some products.
Here's one. A simple design to have a small office or even a guest house on our own backyard.

What Can't I Buy Just What I Want?

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I'm really sick of it. Why can't I just be able to buy what I want instead of having to buy the entire suite that I won't be using?
This makes me crazy and I think its the main reason I like App Stores so much.

I give you an example. I want to buy the Outlook from Microsoft Office for Mac, but it's bundled in their suite. And it's even for the Business Suite which i way pricier.
So, their best product in my modest opinion is the main reason for people to buy their business suite. Otherwise, the normal user just needs to buy the Home&Student version, but if it needs a great integrated messaging and scheduling system like Outllook it needs to buy the entire pack.
Ridiculous. Well, I didn't worked for me. I really just need the iWork suite from Apple (which is way cheaper) and the Mail.app do the service.

There's no doubt about it, the Office Suite from Microsoft is way better than iWork from Apple, but for the normal user it doesn't pay. My professional work is based in email messages (a lot), Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver and so on.
So, the Office tools need to be user friendly and quite stylish and iWork works just fine (pardon the double speech). 

So, sorry Microsoft, but I won't pay that price just for having the Outlook. Even if it is to a business. To explain better, it won't add so much productivity to justify that price. Now if you imagine that you need to buy to everyone in the office is just crazy. 
The Mac Store from Apple can be a great treat to get interesting apps for a nice price. Hummm... now, I like that!

I just go berserk with this design! Modern Office at your backyard

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I'm a design freak. I love great product design and inspiration comes for me when I'm surrounded with beauty.
I've seen these ever growing backyard offices and I'm delirious to have one. It's not a question of isolation. It's a question of mind breaking rules and pre-defined mindsets.