I'm Alessandro Molinaro, a designer with over twenty years of experience, spanning from exhibitions to fintech.
In the last decade I've led a design team, building it from the ground up, growing the practice as the company scaled from 30 to 150+ people. The work has spanned automotive SaaS, financial services, and omnichannel retail.
I've worked on both B2B and B2C products, from consumer-facing to operator-facing products, from Fintech to eCommerce Solutions, adopted by major brands, like Mercedes, BMW, Audi, FCA (Fiat, Alfa Romeo etc.), Blackhorse, Novuna and many others. I've also had the pleasure, years ago, to work for gov.uk related services.
I see design as a whole, holistic thing: research through to craft, with no hard borders between. I love bringing teams to imagine how things could be, experimenting with ideas, navigating complexity by holding a clear vision while staying rooted in empathy for the people who'll use what we create. There's no recipe. It always depends, but speed and quality are keys..
I focus on how entire services work: the journey, the multi-system interactions, the handoffs between products, and how information is ultimately presented to people, driven by research and data.
Interaction Design Specialty achieved on April 5, 2019.
UX Research Specialty achieved on April 3, 2019
Master certificate achieved on April 5, 2019.
UX Management Specialty achieved on November 17, 2019.
Planning why, how and what to deliver the experience.
Empathising with the people we design for through interviews, field research, shadowing etc...
Translating researches into products (maps, wireframes and protopypes), from concept to delivery.
Design based on user's behaviour and expectations.
Synthesizing and imagining things as they could be.
Guerrilla, in lab or remote, as long as we test.
Connecting user needs to business goals in a scalable and sustainable way.
It's about coaching and making ideas flow, giving spaces and principles.
Make the whole company, the users and the choosers part of the design process.
Long-term coaching. Passing what I learnt so far (and learning in return).
The tricky art of asking the right questions.
I've never found someone who wasn't somehow able to teach me something.
This is my playground, were I play with code and I test solutions just for fun. It's still in alpha version and it's likely to stay permanently as such. I decided to make the process public and visible, with placeholders and fake content when needed.
Some part are on invite only for the time being, they are a kind of a diary of projects, when the time will come, I'll open everything.
If you are curious, this is the Component Library so far. Being a small personal website, it doesn't need a proper design system, but I do not exclude to build it just for fun.
View the component libraryHere you can find the latest updates and changes made to the website.
Back in October, I updated the homepage carousel with a more responsive version. Unfortunately, a bug
prevented it from displaying correctly on some screens, particularly when display scaling was set to
anything other than 100% (which is very common on Windows 10 at that resolution).
Essentially, the carousel was initialising before images or fonts had fully loaded, leading to incorrect
dimension calculations. Please let me know if you notice anything unusual.
Fixed a bug that prevented the font selector to do its job in articles and projects.
Added a Text-To-Speech (TTS) on blog
articles.
This is the basic browser-supported feature, I'm working on implementing an AI
powered version.
Added a resources section with links to tools and articles I found useful.
Updated layout for the projects section.
Added font switcher for articles and projects.
Added images to article's previews.
dark mode option accessible from the main nav.
Improved page load speed
Improved responsiveness, especially on 4k, 2k, mobile and tablet.
CSS clean up, I've deleted a lot of relics here and there.
Navigation has now better visual feedback and feedforwarding.
Keywords: User Experience | Service Design | Behavioural Design | AX | Leadership | Product Strategy | Design Strategy
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