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Why the Vitruvian Man? And how does it relate to User Experience (UX)?helix.png

Though Leonardo da Vinci lived more than 500 years ago, he is still an infinite source of inspiration to me and all people that - around the clock - enjoy designing user-centred experiences.

  • First of all, his legendary designs are an icon of innovation and pushed the boundaries of what was possible at that time.
  • Secondly, he has been master of many disciplines and arts, and user experience is undoubtedly a medley of many discipines and arts too: Visual Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Psychology, Ethnography, Industrial Design and the list is still long.
  • Finally, while we should try to master all these things at the same time, we should not forget - Leonardo was very clear on that - that Man should always be our top priority.

This site describes who I am, what I do and where I have published and presented. Here below you find my latest thoughts on the subject. I hope you enjoy reading them.

Recent articles

iPhone virtual keyboard leads to poor user experience

August 19, 2008 – 10:46 am

Eventually, there is sound evidence validating my first impressions of the virtual keyboard of the iPhone:
Although iPhone users were able to text as quickly as QWERTY-keyboard owners, iPhone typists made more than twice as many errors. Even worse, many of these errors were left uncorrected, apparently due to (lack of) familiarity with the magnifying glass [...]

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Why Forrester got it wrong on User Experience?

May 9, 2008 – 1:54 pm

I found a very good post on Laurie Gray’s blog on Catalyze.I also got some Forrester Research reports on Customer Experience and the beginning I was very curious about how they were approaching User Experience in their reports. And - I have to say - I was very disappointed by their slapdash take on the [...]

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Why doing user research first is right

March 16, 2008 – 12:51 am

I have found an interesting column from Donald Norman about how the role of user research in the software/web development process, though I have to say that I disagree with the premise of his article:
“How many times have you had to fight hard for the ability to do field studies and other observations at the [...]

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UX Trends in the 2007 UPA Salary

February 22, 2008 – 2:43 am

I just found a fresh UPA 2007 salary survey out in my mailbox… there are a couple of interesting thoughts that I would like to share with you.

First of all, the survey has a quite a large sample: 1523 people answered to the survey, with the vast majority in US (999) and then the other [...]

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