Rich Media Banner for the Six Flags parks. Users can use their mouse to move a laser pointer and play with the cat on screen!

Client: Ogilvy
Brand: Six Flags
Campaign: Laser Kitty

Tech Lead: Riccardo Giraldi
Producer: Daniela Michelon
Interactive Director: Alex Jenkins
Interactive Production Company: unit9

And this is the tv campaing “More Flags! More Fun! Six Flags!” from where this banner idea comes from

unit9 created a fully integrated campaign for MTV to support an art competition it has running in over 25 of its emerging markets across the world. The campaign inspires its viewers to get creating – with some very exciting results.

Brand: Break MTV

Tech lead: Riccardo Giraldi
Interactive Director: Anrick Bregman
Interactive Production Company: unit9

breakmtv.com

Adobe Rich Media banner that demonstrates some of the new 3D features released in Adobe Acrobat. Developed working as Interactive Developer at Unit9 in London.

Brand: Adobe

Client: Goodby, Silverstein & Partners

Adobe CS3 “Take as much as you want” banner campaing.
Developed working as Interactive Developer at Unit9 in London.

http://www.unit9.com/banners/gsp/adobe_cs3/

Brand: Adobe
Client: Goodby, Silverstein & Partners

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away I was a student and Gianpaolo was my teacher. Thanks to The Internet  I found this photo of Gianpaolo and 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 in 2006.

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 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, running several usability tests and getting some important feedback that helped enormously to improve the application.

“La Papera e il Leone” is a stop motion video I made on my spare time using puppets form my childhood I still had in room.
The roaring lion at the end  – that looks so much as the MGM one – is actually my mum who had no idea at the time about my evil plans publishing the video on internet.