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.
Wallpapers, aphorisms & simplicity: aphorimplicity
Sometimes to relax a bit I open photoshop and I’ll sketch some ideas and experiments. Sometimes one of them transforms into a nice wallpaper. Here, a set of three, with three great aphorisms by Gibson, Vignelli and Munari.
Mozilla Design Challenge Winter ‘09: Foldable Home Tab Concept
It’s a while that I’m following the design process behind one of the greatest opensource projects around, Mozilla Firefox. In december 2009 Mozilla Labs opened a new contest asking the community to try redesign the home tab, the evolution of the starting page currently present on many browsers.
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Intense Minimalism: designing the website
Designing something, from big things to smaller ones, requires a good process and attention to details. From concept to UX Design, from visual design to development (HTML5, jQuery, 960.gs, Microformats), this is what I did to build this website.
Intense Minimalism: my identity
Defining an identity, a professional identity, is an hard task. It’s even harder when you’ve got many interests. I think that a good way to think at it is “The Elevator Pitch of Yourself”, or, in Twitter times, “a 140 characters description of Yourself”. It isn’t easy, because you can’t be too abstract, nor too concrete. And you have to show much of you in so little space.
Intense Minimalism: designing the logo
This is the process behind the redesign of my logo, starting from my first logo, the theory, the idea… and all the bumps in the road. Many interesting things about logo design and potential problems, and I’m not talking just about the drawing part of it.
