About me.

(You are reading the English version. Find the Italian one here )

I profess myself as a curious person always hungry of creativity and with a strong nerd accent.

My main interests are Interaction Design, Human Computer Interaction, Game Design, Multimedia and Web. Last but not least Creativity, in all its form. You can call it design, art, illustration, cinema, photography: they are all my passions.

I am now in London,  working as interactive director and learning some Specialmoves.

You can find more about me on Linkedin:
www.linkedin.com/in/riccardogiraldi

And now a tearjerker story..

Since I was a child I’ve always wanted to understand how things work and then change them and create new things in my own way – I am from the lucky generation who played with the proper Lego bricks and had to learn pascal just to have fun with a computer.

I was definitely good in taking objects apart, but I ended up ruining lots of them, especially radios.
I probably felt very guilty because I decided to study Electronics.

After 5 years of studies – and a diploma in “Electronics engineer” – I studied Visual Design at the University of Florence to feed my creative side. There I developed a deep interest in Interaction Design and Interactive Experiences – my dissertation was about designing and developing a touch screen application (a digital artifact) with an extremely intuitive interface.

After a good experience as Interaction Designer at the MICC (Media Integration and Communication Centre) in Florence, I decided that it was time to grow up and catch the opportunity of working as Interactive Developer in London at unit9.

In the meantime I founded Officina Creativa, an Italian organization which aims to promote creatives and creativity in Italy.
In just one year Officina Creativa grew a lot and became an important reality frequented by many creatives and promoting several initiatives.

I spent two years in London,  I worked as Technical Lead at unit9 and had the chance to be part of wonderful projects and meet extremely skilled and nice people.

Then I moved to Stockholm and I worked at  Helpful Strangers where I also got more and more interested in games.

I am now back to London, where I have joined Specialmoves as Interactive Director.
Specialmoves is an high-end interactive production company with a big passion in UXD!