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I'm Alessandro a designer (HMI/HCI) and photography entusiast currently working in UK.
This website is my playground, I use it to test solutions and play of course.
It's not intended to be optimized at this stage. Ok, probably it will never be.
Design is a beautiful iterative process of research and craftsmanship, trial and errors and you will never stop learning.
Do you what to stay in touch? Have a chat about UX, UI, interaction design and collateral? Drop me a line :)
Of course I'm still working on all this stuff, so forgive me some bugs and inconcistency, I'll fix all.
[...]I supposed the major problem would be to understand the semiotic of the interfaces, the meaning of all the different signs and symbols currently in use in the main common applications and OS. [...] I was wrong. Or, at least, these wasn’t the major problems.
Basically give us a context or a problem to study, a business direction or just a technology to explore and we'll come up with concepts for new product and/or services.
The basic questions are "What's a new product?" "how this product could positively impact both people and business?". It involves a lot of research, but it's also the funnies part.
UX, UI, visual, IA, System design and so on are all part of the same thing. They explore and shape the interaction between Human and Machines, no matter if they are applied on objects or digital interfaces.
There are of course best practices related to a non-digital (HMI) and a digital (HCI) object. Anyway, they share a big, huge point: The "H", the Human. That's why we should design to make life easier for humans, not for machines.
It sounds tautologic, but in the everyday work it is the most challenging part of the game.
The process is fluid, it could be started - and re-started - at any point, it runs alongside the development, it's linked with it, and it's not the "perfect recipe"...it should be adapted to the situations, the product, the desired outcome (also the output, of course, but from the design point of view, outcome is more important).