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...
Read MoreRidolfino mobile studio
Ridolfino studio equipment I am enjoying this Saturday at my friend’s place in Rome. Talking about mobile and iPhone. We are thinking about a different approach to mobile design and I’ll be glad to describe it...
Read MoreiPhone web design with Balsamiq
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...
Read MoreA list of mobile situations
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...
Read MoreThe negotiation table
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...
Read MoreMobile Interaction Design
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...
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Some time ago I’ve found a quite useful tool called iPrototype (created by these guys). Basically, it is a combo of Fireworks .lbi and Jquery that lets you create navigable prototypes for iPhone. Since I am a hard-core FW user, I’ve adapted iPrototype for the iPad.
You can download it...
A couple of months ago, I wrote an article about mobile context and its role in designing for mobile. In a few words, I say that the mobile context has its own peculiarities and corresponds to a new layer of the experience.
Since the iPad launch I have been interested in understanding what context it has been designed for. On one side, I can...
Aperitivo is the new application by Mobisle.org (the same authors of Big Pallaudio). This application lets you choose your club from a list of selected ones that can offer an aperitivo. Aperitivo is not a happy hour: Italian clubs tend to make them similar just for business purpose but aperitivo does not mean that you get drinks at a...