March trace

• The six factors of a great leader

• “Design is very much about designing and prototyping and making” – Jonathan Ive

• Uptalk: everything is a question?

• “The brand comes from the consumer’s view”, Regis McKenna

February trace

• “The programming process”, or, Agile as IBM invented it in 1950s.

January trace

• No copyright intended

November trace

• My in-between iPhone, before the iPhone

• “With an entire body at your command, do you seriously think the Future Of Interaction should be a single finger?” – Bret Victor

October trace

• The importance of instant feedback in UI design: the Android case

• “The best clients are intertwined in the process” — Peter Bohlin

• A design improvement for YouTube ads

September trace

• “Editing is integral to this thought process.” – Cennydd Bowles

• Apple Design Myths, a summary

• Vormgeving and Ontwerpen, a much needed distinction in design

• My dConstruct 2011 quick notes

August trace

• Who needs QR Codes when all it takes is a picture?

• Design and behaviourism: feedback and social traps

July trace

• The “Right” Scrolling Direction on your Computer

• Useless Machines: Munari, Calder and Ray

• The accidental Design of an Online Comic platform: Google+

June trace

• Prep-Do-Review, a time management Dot Loop for managers

• “And when you get over the embarrassment, you’re more creative.” – Ed Catmull, Pixar

May trace

• Firefox, Safari, Lion and prototype ideas spreading

February trace

• “When you’re forced to be simple, you’re forced to face the real problem.” – Paul Graham

• “Everybody is influenced by somebody else”, Erik Spiekermann

December trace

• Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm

• Two design improvement for a more social Skype

• Facebook and Identity expression hacks, again

November trace

• Self expression matters: it’s all about social identity

• “I like Apple for the opposite reason: they’re not afraid of getting a rudimentary 1.0 out into the world.” – Matt Mullenweg

October trace

• Steve Jobs is a systems designer. He simplifies complexity.

• The Design Process of 37 Signals: model, screens, design, html, live

September trace

• iPhone: the greatest thing to happen to the blind

• The Management Myth: study Philosophy not an MBA

• John Cleese on creativity: sleep, rewrite, focus, avoid interruptions.

August trace

• The Superstar Effect: being the best, even slightly, triggers huge advantages

• The effects of caffeine on your brain

• “I excelled at every subject just for the purpose of excelling, not learning”, Erica Goldson

July trace

• The designer doesn’t have a personal style, Bruno Munari

• It isn’t minimalist… or is it?

• Solitude and Leadership, by William Deresiewicz

• Creativity in a copyright-less world

June trace

• The Wild Android Store, how to solve it

• Enjoyment rises with intensity, peak-end, short duration, breaks & variation.

• How to get and keep people’s attention

• The big Google background image failure

May trace

• There is no movement without the first follower

April trace

• Sometimes just a sign is enough.

• The iPad is an interaction platform, it needs a recursive makers tool

March trace

• Claimcheck: “Office 2008: we’ve designed our UI for the Mac”

• Three days later, WideNoise ranks #1 Lifestyle free app in the Italian App Store and many others throughout the world.

February trace

• Most of what our mothers told us about our eyes was wrong

• It’s your job to figure out how to grow – or shrink – your application properly and responsibly.

• Designing and developing to requirements and feature lists leads to unsatisfactory experiences

January trace

• Keyboard > iPhone > Treo > Pen > Newton > Palm

• Break the habit in baby steps, choose a trigger, iterate

• Nielsen’s Law of Internet Bandwidth: high-end users +50% per year

• Materials are important also for digital designers

• If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter

• Make No Little Plans (Daniel Burnham)

• Three degrees of separation: dynamic spread of happiness

• Three takes on Apple’s “The Tablet”

• Intense Minimalism begins again in 2010, two times a new home