Category Archives: UI Design
What I learned designing my first Windows Phone7 app
This is a journey into the design of the UI/UX of my first Windows Phone 7 application, from the moment I decided to try experimenting it, till the day I published my application and got my first feedback. How it … Continue reading
The Intranet Value
Generally, the attention of the UI designer goes to public sites/applications. But there are a lot of web based applications that are running inside the firewall. Like intranet sites. Maybe for small business is it too much to have an … Continue reading
Florence UX Camp 2009
I’m very happy of attending a UX Camp last Saturday. Even though I preferred speeches about suggestions and problems then others about UI methodologies, I listened to some very interesting ideas and I met nice people to talk to. I … Continue reading
UI Patterns
I’m sitting in front of my mac, searching for an idea on how to make a multiple choice usable. I’m in hurry and I’ve a very short time to do it. Sadly, but it’s every day’s story. I write something … Continue reading
Networks of Design
Finally our paper “Role of thesauri in a scientific organization” is published. It is about the project for the JRC of Ispra where I worked till June 2008. It talks about association of indexes and how we can use them … Continue reading
About RIA design
Last Friday I talked about how to design and create mockup of RIA applications in a community event. There are many tech talks about it, but, instead, I wanted to talk about the approach to the prototyping. For me, the … Continue reading
“Technology moves fast. Evolution Moves slow.”
Recently I read Ambient Findability again. I think that this book is still good today, the same as when it was written, in 2005. At page 45, Peter Morville, the author, says: “Technology moves fast. Evolution Moves slow.” He refers … Continue reading
Mockup design
One of the many tasks that my profession (UX designer) is the design mockups. I’m always looking for the perfect mockup tool, because I’m spending a lot of time on design them and I wanted to find a better tool. … Continue reading
Data Flow
While walking around Berlin, I saw an interesting book, Data Flow , on a table in a bookstore in the NeuroTitan gallery. The book is showcase of a lot of interesting visualizations and is very inspirational. Data visualization is becoming … Continue reading
Agile UI design
Today i read an interesting article about Agile UI design: in the last months there has been a lot of talking about Agile even in design sphere. It is not easy to apply this methodology into a project. You (and … Continue reading