Blipshot: real one-click screenshots for Google Chrome
If you need a simple extension to make screenshot with Google Chrome, Blipshot is for you: real one-click whole-page screenshot.
Email CSS cheatsheet
Talking about CSS in email is almost a forbidden topic, still there’s a big margin to do beautiful things even with the limited toolset that designers have. But to do that, we need to know what are the tools that we can use.
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.
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.
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.
