Digital Skills

How user-centered design principles transformed a grassroots political movement into a viral phenomenon and what it means for design practice. Press enter or click to view image in full size Zohran Mamdani Logo designed by Aneesh Bhoopathy. The year is 2025, and New York City, “The Greatest City in The World” has a 34-year-old, democratic … Weiterlesen

Have you ever been frustrated by an app or website that seems to be working against you? It’s as if the designers didn’t think about how real people would use it. That’s where product thinking comes in. It’s a way of designing that keeps the user at the forefront of the process, ensuring that their … Weiterlesen

Since 2017, the UI Design Master at Innovation School has been the first Italian course focused on the design of visual user interfaces. Starting from the 3rd edition, I joined scientific coordinator as part of the faculty, following students through their project work. After 15 editions spanning 7 years and more than 800 students, we … Weiterlesen

Society is moving beyond screens into conversational, immersive, and neural experiences, placing designers at the center of the ethical landscape of human–technology interaction. Ethical Interface Design helps designers understand not only the impact of their choices but also the ethical frameworks behind them, exploring: How interfaces influence behavior across visual, tactile, conversational, neural, and mixed-reality … Weiterlesen

AI can now generate design artefacts in seconds. It can fill in a Value Proposition Canvas, a journey map, or a jobs-to-be-done structure with impressive speed and coherence. For designers and other professionals, this raises an uncomfortable question: if machines can apply the tools of our disciplines, where does that leave human expertise? The answer … Weiterlesen

Showing a high-fidelity version of the future isn’t as taboo anymore Press enter or click to view image in full size Photo by cottonbro studio: https://www.pexels.com/photo/a-person-fortune-telling-7179797/ “The PM used Stitch by Google to create designs after our Miro session. To the untrained eye, it looks like a finished design. But when you look closer, it’s … Weiterlesen

Co-Invention: Redesigning Discovery I had spent six weeks conducting discovery and design on an AI-powered toolkit to accelerate product discovery when I came across Ajay Agrawal’s YouTube interview, „The AI Economist: The Skill You Need to Stay Employed in the Age of AI“ (Full interview is 1 hour and 5 minutes). I was researching AI … Weiterlesen

So I’d like you to notice something: by the time you already felt a slight sense of alert from seeing the red color, your brain still needed another 200–300 milliseconds to fully decode what was actually happening. And now, my dear designers, I invite you to try a little experiment. Take any interface design and … Weiterlesen

How removing friction from creative tools removes the meaning from creative work Press enter or click to view image in full size illustration by author Twenty-five or so years ago, one day after school I went to visit my dad at his office. We didn’t have a computer at home at the time so whenever … Weiterlesen