Let me introduce myself.

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.


My Curriculum Vitae
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NNg UX Master Certificate

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.

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What I've done and what I do.


Design and Product Strategy

Planning why, how and what to deliver the experience.


UX Research

Empathising with the people we design for through interviews, field research, shadowing etc...


Design

Translating researches into products (maps, wireframes and protopypes), from concept to delivery.


Interaction Design

Design based on user's behaviour and expectations.


Conceptualization

Synthesizing and imagining things as they could be.


Usability testing

Guerrilla, in lab or remote, as long as we test.


Product design

Connecting user needs to business goals in a scalable and sustainable way.


Leading Design teams

It's about coaching and making ideas flow, giving spaces and principles.


Facilitation

Make the whole company, the users and the choosers part of the design process.


Mentoring

Long-term coaching. Passing what I learnt so far (and learning in return).


Coaching

The tricky art of asking the right questions.


Learning

I've never found someone who wasn't somehow able to teach me something.



This is my playground, and sometimes it get broken...so I fix it.


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.


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Changelog

Here you can find the latest updates and changes made to the website.

Oct 2025/feb 2026
Bug Fixed

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.

May/June 2025
Bug Fixed

Fixed a bug that prevented the font selector to do its job in articles and projects.

March/April 2025
Brand New

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.

Brand New

Added a resources section with links to tools and articles I found useful.

Improved

Updated layout for the projects section.

January/February 2025
Brand New

Added font switcher for articles and projects.

Brand New

Added images to article's previews.

November/December 2024
Brand New

dark mode option accessible from the main nav.

Improved

Improved page load speed

Improved

Improved responsiveness, especially on 4k, 2k, mobile and tablet.

September/October 2024
Improved

CSS clean up, I've deleted a lot of relics here and there.

Improved

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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