The effects of caffeine on your brain
The ethics of social networks: let’s start considering it
The so-addressed social technologies are here, and here to stay. They are showing the world what you can do with a network and a bit of good social design. But with the growing success of those services, both in usage and in revenue, shouldn’t we stop a while and think about the ethics of them?
From counter badges to game badges
An initial design proposal on how we could move forward the good old badge counter interface to something more satisfactory and less prone to anxiety. Welcome to the world of game badges.
The Social Usability Workshop at Frontiers of Interaction 2010
Social Usability is one of the core elements in my and Gianandrea Giacoma’s research about psychology applied to interaction design because it describe the enabling elements able to create social network dynamics. In the last year we developed the Checklist in order to make easier to use it, and this year we built a workshop to explain, hands on, how it works for both existing and new services.
Enjoyment rises with intensity, peak-end, short duration, breaks & variation.
The Mighty Afternoon Nap
The dreadful afternoon nap isn’t as bad as we think: it restores our mind and body, it raises alertness and helps memorization and responsiveness. We should accept it if it feels good for us, trying to change the social perception of it in order to improve the quality of our lives.
Sometimes just a sign is enough.
Social Usability checklist
Social Usability is a quality attribute that assesses how easy social interactions are to make. The checklist is built to be both a simple rule of thumb and an important guideline in the hands of a social network designer.
