An interesting application that makes a good use of the iPhone interaction...

Nowadays, when usability sounds a little bit old fashioned. But it still gives interaction designers very good challenges. I was a design a form where the user could select his arrival time. The old solution from which my design started, used a dropdown menu with 24 hour time format. You had 1.00 to 24.00. I thought that I should have had to look into alternatives to a long list of values. The first thing I considered was the a second...

credit: karabehrens, flickr.com In his interesting article on techcrunch.com, Erick Schonfeld explores the new scenario of real-time search. Twitter and instant blogging are a consequence, and the result, of how we use technology and how technology is changing our lifestyles. Among these transformations, Schonfeld includes a series of new search engines (OneRiot, Collecta that are trying to address the need of real time search. Real-time...

Some days ago I was having a look at monster.com, a website for job posting and carrer development. It has a new cool design that I had not explored yet. I think the visual is pretty solid and well-done: the search box lets you choose between your country (the domain you are surfing on, e.g. dot com for the US) or the rest of the world. And it worked quite well for me (even though I am Italian and changed domain on purpose). However, since...

For those of you that speak Italian, check www.uxmagazine.it out. I wrote an interesting entry about how mobile becomes part of our context as a new layer of experience. Break a leg,...

iPhone Class in Rome For those who are interested in iPhone development and would like to improve their skills, I am organising with iPhoneclasses.com a three day course in Rome. The course dates are May, 22th – 24th and the program is really interesting. Moreover, Alex Cone is going to be the teacher of this iPhone class. This is a first meeting where you will meet interesting people and share your ideas and opinions about mobile...