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...

Probabilmente, questo sarà il prossimo libro che leggerò. Mi ha colpito molto la citazione che ho trovato su questo sito Frames are mental structures that shape the way we see the world. As a result, they shape the goals we seek, the plans we make, the way we act, and what counts as a good or bad outcome of our actions…Because language activates frames, new language is required for new frames. Thinking differently requires speaking...

What a nice manner to represent tags and how they’re related. You enter the tag and Social Galaxy builds a sort of a solar system where your tag is the sun and all the related ones are planets. Here’s a screenshot of this: Tag Galaxy visually represents web tags *Update: it’s a thesis project by Steven Wood and it seems to work via Flickr...

Don’t you think that this contribution \ 2.0 hype is going to end sooner or later? IMHO the web is really going too far and we users are about to ask our privacy \ freedom of expression back. Ci riempiamo la bocca di termini inflazionati come duepuntozero, cambiamo il nostro linguaggio inglobando termini strani…ma abbiamo mai riflettuto su quanto sia davvero liberi oggi di esprimerci online? All this wave of blogging,...

I have been talking about Politics with my friend Mustafa Yaylili and I surprisingly found a lot of similarities between the worlds of design and politics. I have asked him to write me a few lines with his thoughts about our conversation and I am going to do the same in order to have a perspective on it

I have been reflecting during the last months about usability and how tests are conducted. I am doing a lot of experience at Venere.com where we test our prototypes in many different ways (and this is not banal at all if you think that I am talking about Italy!). I will probably get back to you with some examples of an interesting method I’d like to explore more. I call it bird’s eye method and that’s why: you make the...