Davide Casali = Folletto Malefico: Hybrid Interaction Designer = Design × Psychology × Technology / Simplicity × Complexity

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.

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. I think that the home folder is [...]

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: 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.

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