The screen frame is an important element that is playing a huge role in the current war in the mobile world between Apple, Google and Microsoft. It’s interesting to see how much it’s overlooked, and why it has a huge role in defining the final user experience… for both users and developers.
You have to learn a little more about the history of typography, or type. How it came about. It was invented at the end of the 14th hundred [...] and then for two or three hundred years there were very few different typefaces. Very elegant and that’s it. Some publisher had type and print and [...]
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.
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.
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. I think that the home folder is [...]
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.
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.
