[{"content":"Unity is a tool for building games and interactive 3D scenes. I used it in this lab to put together a small environment with a floor, brick walls, fences, and a stone bridge. Then I added a player so I could explore it.\nThe first version ended with three things still missing: items to collect, a sound when collecting them, and a score counter. Now it\u0026amp;rsquo;s all finished. The scene has a small task to complete: collecting four pink floating balls.\nStarting with an empty world I downloaded Unity …","date":"2026-10-09","permalink":"/myBlog/posts/hci-lab-1b/","summary":"Unity is a tool for building games and interactive 3D scenes. I used it in this lab to put together a small environment with a floor, brick walls, fences, and a stone bridge. Then I added a player so …","tags":["HCI","Lab","Unity"],"title":"My first walkthrough in Unity"},{"content":"I like this photo because you don\u0026amp;rsquo;t need a design degree to understand it. There is a neat paved path, carefully laid out, and then there is the route people actually take. If I were late for class, I know which one I\u0026amp;rsquo;d choose. The pathway already lost that argument.\nThat shortcut has a name: a desire path. It forms when enough people repeatedly walk the same unplanned route. It can tell us something that a drawing cannot: where people want to go, and how much of a detour they are …","date":"2026-10-08","permalink":"/myBlog/posts/hci-homework-1/","summary":"I like this photo because you don\u0026rsquo;t need a design degree to understand it. There is a neat paved path, carefully laid out, and then there is the route people actually take. If I were late for …","tags":["HCI","Homework","Everyday life","Design"],"title":"Why Is This So Annoying?"},{"content":"This blog is part of my Human–Computer Interaction coursework, but I wanted it to feel like a place of my own. Before I could share any projects, I had to get the site running.\nI used Hugo, a tool that turns text files and a theme into web pages. That means I can write a post, add its images, and let Hugo build the website. Simple enough in principle. On my Windows setup, getting there involved competing installations, missing files, and a few errors I didn\u0026amp;rsquo;t immediately understand.\nHere …","date":"2026-09-23","permalink":"/myBlog/posts/hci-lab-1a/","summary":"This blog is part of my Human–Computer Interaction coursework, but I wanted it to feel like a place of my own. Before I could share any projects, I had to get the site running.\nI used Hugo, a tool …","tags":["HCI","Lab","Web Development"],"title":"HCI — Lab 1A: Building Joao’s Files"}]