I have been quite interested by iBand, a music band of four people that compose and play songs with their iPhones. The video is really inspiring and I like how they used gloves to give it an original ‘touch’. You can visit the website of...

Balsamiq is one of the most interesting prototyping tool I have found on the web. It’s powerful because it can visualize all the elements you need to build an UI with a selection of stunning interface elements (yes, they have that sketched style we all love). It is free as webapp but you can buy a license to enjoy it in all its beauty. I have been trying to design a mobile version  www.venere.com (my company) by using the iPhone...

I have created a Google Spreadsheet and I am crowdsourcing a list of mobile situation i.e. various examples of contexts + activities in which mobile design has a key role. The aim of this operation is to give and get inspiration to mobile designers. Knowing the context and the activities, in fact, is a good starting point and it’s very inspiring t00! You can see it here: list of mobile situations. If the experiment works I will open...

As they taught me at  La Sapienza one of the billions of model of communication is based on sharing values, cultures, point of views. I like this idea of it because it implies that both of the interlocutors put part of their background in the middle, on the stage of a critical and hopefully constructive comparison of things. Business is global and the comparison between different cultures it’s not just a matter of passionate...

I have never been such a mobile guy, mainly for two reasons. The first that I am born in Italy, a country where mobile devices are highly diffused (we are one of the most important market in Europe) and, paradoxally, the infrastructures that should support them suck. And I am not taking into account the network operator competition that only recently has seen the entrance of the virtual ones). The second reason is that mobile has always...

I have been always doubtful about the use of wireframes through the entire design process. However, this technique can completely dominate the way a designer approches problems. As Brandon Schauer states: “Wireframes constrain your creativity. Given the time it takes to generate a wireframe, we find that most designers can only create one wireframe per page. Then they slowly revise and compromise[...] Wireframes also take designers...