At the time I was a student and Gianpaolo was my teacher. When I found this image online I couldn’t resist to make a video out of it!
Ooohh, I miss the old good days as student.

This is probably one of my first professional project as webdesigner freelancer. It was about creating some HTML/CSS templates for a new version of Michael Youn’s website.

You have probably seen it online a while ago or more recently at the Ted talks: Bumptop is a 3d desktop interface.
It was a prototype, now it is out as beta version that I am trying in these days.

I´ve received the invitation to test the beta version  – it looks pretty cool. Althogught it is a bit unnatural to use – we are so used to the “normal” desktop -  it is also very interesting. Bumptop tries to re-think something that hasn’t been basically changed in the last 20/30 years.

Here is the site: http://bumptop.com/
You can find plenty of videos on youtube.

At the moment I am still under the “wow-it-is-3d” addictive effect so I am not 100% reliable.
(a “dancing bear” ware as Alan Cooper would call it)

Here my first feedback for the beta:

- a feature that I think you shold absolutly add -at least I can’t see it at the moment- is the possibility for the user to drag an image from the browser to the desktop copying it. I found it s annoying not being able to do it (on vista with firefox).

- I am not too conviced about the right click beheviour at the moment: on right click you see three buttons “Shrink”, “grow” and “More”.  The “More” button reveals  the “normal” right click context menu, and to do so you have to perform an additional – even if small – action. Now, it is kind of cool what they have done, but at the same time I would rethink that right click considering that the “Shrink/Grow” actions are not that important compared to the context menu.

I will try it for the next few days to see what bumptop could add somehing to our daily experience.

This is the TED talk video

Here the Flickr group with some users’ screenshots:
http://flickr.com/groups/bumptops/pool/

This is probably the best parody made when BumpTop was firts announced:

“Interactive Digital Artworks for cultural heritage development” is the title of my University Dissertation for the Science Bachelor in Industrial Design which I discussed with my colleague Elena Lombardi.

At the Excellence Center on Media Integration and Communication as Interaction Designer I studied and developed a multi-environment application for the museum of Montalfonso in Lucca.

The ideas and lessons of A. Cooper in his “The Inmates Are Running the Asylum” book and and D. Norman’s  “The Design of Everyday Things” are the main references for this project where we focused on the UX design and the interaction design, runing several usability tests and getting some important feedback that helped enourmosly to improve the application.

“La Papera e il Leone” is a stop motion video I made using the puppets of my room.
The roaring lion at the end  – that looks so much as the MGM one – is my mum which actually had no clue of what was going on and is not very happy of being on internet.
Please note the.. emm.. great and professional sound effects made with my own voice over the video.

Moto Polisemico is the title of the outdoor installation I presented as student with other collegues in 2006. The installation was part of the exhibition “Migrazioni in Piazza“  in Piazza Lorenzo Ghiberti in Florence.

Moto Polisemico is a social experiment where people were interacting with the installation trought the shadows generated by their bodies.
An huge white projection  (12 x 3 m) covered one side of the square. People walking in front of the projection were generating big shadows on the opposite wall. Our video was set to show from time to time random pre-recorded (and generally crazy) shadows. Those were visually mixed with the real ones creating an interesting effect and very curious reactions from the people in the square.

Children were particurally interested and had fun finding different ways of playing with the installation.

On June 2006, I founded Officina Creativa, an Italian community about design and creativity in all its forms.
Officina Creativa connects creatives from all Italy and adds to it the international exerience of its crew which includes designers, illustrators, photographers, interaction designer and many other professionals who stronlgy believe in creativity.

Officina Creativa writes articles, discovers and supports young creatives, organizes contest and live events.

http://www.officina-creativa.net

( all the contents are in italian – sorry! )

“Social Cage” is a short movie inspired to Gorge Orwell’s “1984″ that I made with some friends in 2005.

Wake Up!