Think3 is a privately held upstart company with headquarters in Santa Clara, California and about 200 employees worldwide.

Think3 produces software for designing common, everyday physical objects, ranging from home appliances, childrens' safety products and engine parts to boutique home accessories and custom automobiles.

Think3-Italy, formerly known as Cad.Lab, was founded in 1979 in Bologna, Italy and is the leading vendor of mechanical computer-aided design (MCAD) software in Italy.

Think3 has embarked upon an innovative strategy for bringing powerful, affordable, easy-to-learn 3D design software to millions of 2D designers who haven't yet made the move from 2-dimensional design. Until now, 3D design tools have been too expensive, cumbersome and difficult to master.

Think3 group is currently made of four companies:

	Think3 inc.,(Headquarters - USA);
	Think3 (I) is the heart of the software factory, that is the main R&D Department. With about a hundred employees, deals with the software development the R&D Development centers are, apart from the historical one in Bologna (Casalecchio di Reno), Pesaro, Santa Clara (think3 inc.), and, brand new, Boston, Salt Lake City;
	Think3 sarl (F) deals with recruitment and VAR support on the French languages market it also has a new R&D team in Marseille;
	Think3 GmbH (D) deals with recruitment and VAR support on the German languages market;

The think3 main products being currently developed are:

	thinkdesign: powerful, flexible 3D design software that's accessible, affordable and easy to learn;
	thinkteam: integrated working environment providing total support for organization of the engineering office and its relationship with other departments.

The company Think3 formerly known as Cad.Lab, has more than twenty years of SW development experience, all characterized from a series of products used from an increasingly larger number of customers and rewarded by the experts of the field with the maximum possible acknowledgments.

During the entire time Think3 has always demonstrated to be able to, understand and implement the customers desires in terms of what a customer expects from a SW product and in particular through its user interface.

The evolution of this instrument has accompanied the company detailed product knowledge, allowing to be always at the top of in the field in technological innovation.

We believe we can contribute within these three following:

	Pluriannual SW development experience.
	Direct knowledge of the final customer needs.
	Traditional attention to the technological innovations of the sector.

In order not to lose our advantage, we must always maintain the attention of the sector. The participation to this network offers therefore the possibility for us to contribute with our experience to the group and, at the same time, we can learn more about aspects not immediate for us, give us the possibility to study the problem also from other points of view.

Our company has therefore interest in developing the following points:

Tools able to highlight important aspects to consider in developing interactive usable applications that can adapt their user interface to different platforms and environments.

Interaction components that can support user tasks in a more effective manner while interacting with a certain platform and indicating how the user interface elements chosen should change when the context of use changes, while considering the effort required of the user to adapt to the new interface.