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Da un estratto di un libro della Taschen sulle moderne identità visive. Olivetti’s unique corporate identity did not come about through following norms but through an expansive understanding of design. Despite there being a number of breakthrough examples, most early corporate identities in the first half of the 20th century were based on the creative signature of an individual designer who…
Documents and code are being generated faster than team members can review. You get the feeling that most people have stopped reading altogether.
We need to stop pretending that “the cloud” is a place. It’s not a place. It’s a promise —and promises are only as good as the entity making them. The web was supposed to be decentralized, resilient, a network of nodes that could route around damage. But in practice, we’ve spent the last decade centralizing our lives into a handful of walled gardens, each with its own exit strategy and its own…
AI, università, lezioni ed esami. I have a colleague who has completely embraced A.I. My understanding is that his course is much harder than it used to be, but students are allowed to use A.I. during exams. I see the motivation—A.I. is supposed to enhance our skills/productivity, so students should be expected to produce more—but I don’t want to create a situation where students are helplessly…
AI come l’autocorrezione del nostro telefono. I’ll say that the computing speed of today’s devices is fast enough to trick some people into thinking that such devices are doing more than just performing calculations. But this ‘understanding’ and ‘learning’ and ‘communicating’ are just a faster and sometimes more efficient autocorrect. Yes, the autocorrect you have on your phones and tablets and…
Con l’AI stiamo assistendo all’ennesimo giro dello stesso ciclo: accesso facile, poi un nuovo soffitto sopra chi sa usarlo davvero. Design tools followed the same arc. Figma lowered the floor of UI design — suddenly, anyone could open a canvas and move elements around. Design systems lowered it again. Templates lowered it further. Each step made the starting point more accessible. And each step…
Sull’idea che "ciò che si vede è ciò che esiste". The boom and recognition of information design, though, has not improved significantly the public understanding of design and data, of their specific qualities. Particularly, the implications of their constructed and interpretive – and potentially misleading – nature have received little attention. The assumption that “what you see is what is…
Sulle istruzioni agli agenti AI Collaborative steering doesn't mean dumping every possible bit of design or development context into agent instructions. It's being precise about what matters because with AI agents today, the more you pile in, the less useful it gets. And that's where expertise kicks in. Knowing the three to five things that actually matter, in what order, and how they need to be…
Un estratto di un intervento di Michael Bierut a Design Indaba dal titolo "How to Think Like a Designer". No one secretly wants a new logo. They all want someone else's logo, or they want their old logo back. (L’estratto viene da Daily Designer , un progetto di Arun Venkatesan, dove si raccolgono cose dette da noti e famosi designer.)
I CEO alle prese con il vibe-coding. “Why don’t we just do what I did here?” is demoralizing. I get why you’re frustrated. Nothing seems to get done, regardless of all these wondrous advancements in AI. It trivializes all the actual work that needs to get done to produce something real and reliable. It dismisses people’s expertise and skills. You also don’t look good—you even look just a little…
Tra le tante cose che un browser riesce a intercettare del dispositivo che stai utilizzando c’è anche il livello di batteria. Your browser kept your battery level back. Firefox removed this API entirely in 2016, after researchers proved it could be used to track a visitor across websites without cookies, without consent. The API still exists in the specification. It was simply hidden — from you,…
Anil Dash sulla NASA che usa ancora Flickr come archivio pubblico per le sue immagini. The beautiful thing about communities and platforms like Flickr is that they remind us that not everything on the internet has to be ephemeral, not everything on the web has to be hyper-commercial. Sometimes a bunch of decent people can do a good thing for the right reasons, and the result of that work can…
Il design delle piattaforme può indirizzare il nostro uso di esse, ma se siamo frustrati ci passiamo più tempo. Se abbiamo impegni e passioni facciamo altro. Ma per avere impegni e passioni dobbiamo avere il tempo e le risorse culturali, economiche e sociali per coltivarle. Viviamo in una condizione di stress persistente — lavorativo, economico, esistenziale — che il capitalismo contemporaneo…
Your inability to focus isn’t a moral failing. It’s a design problem. You’re trying to think in environments built to prevent thinking. You’re trying to sustain attention in spaces engineered to shatter it. You’re fighting algorithms explicitly optimised to keep you scrolling, not learning. The solution isn’t discipline. It’s architecture. Build different defaults. Create different spaces.…
Sul “mestiere” e sul design. No knowledge I possess about design—the incorporeal understanding that makes what I create better than an off-the-shelf template or something done by someone without my experience—is made irrelevant by AI. Nor is it contradicted by my use of AI tools. Structure still communicates before content. Visual hierarchy still guides attention. Negative space still creates…
Riflessioni sul graphic design, e non solo, di Silvio Lorusso. The promise of simplification is to maintain, or even increase, semantic depth through synthesis. When synthesis is missing, what you get is blandness.
L’articolo di presentazione del nuovo font della fonderia Mass-Driver, MD UI. When we think about reading, we tend to picture books, or magazines, or business reports. Blocks of text, traversed from beginning to end. There’s another kind of reading, though, one which I think we do much more often without really noticing it. It’s a kind of instantaneous scanning of a word or two at a time: the hour…
Il futuro della programmazione, in questo interessante articolo del New York Times . But if coders are more upbeat, it's because their encounters with A.I. are diametrically opposite to what's happening in many other occupations, says Anil Dash, a friend of mine who is a longtime programmer and tech executive. "The reason that tech generally — and coders in particular — see L.L.M.s differently…
Il ritorno al portfolio. I mean a portfolio as a body of work that proves your value beyond your work history. A collection of artifacts that show how you think, just like creative professionals showcase their design or artistic work.