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.
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.
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 [...]
