I don’t think of these pages as a portfolio.
They don’t describe the projects I’m most proud of, nor do they try to represent everything I’ve done.
I collected them because each of them taught me something.
They are moments when a project changed the way I observed a system, organized information, or approached a problem.
People change.
Contexts change.
Technologies change.
The ideas that remain change much less.
These stories come from experiences in research, public administration, industry, the non-profit sector and, more recently, from observing digital products and services.
They aren’t arranged chronologically.
Instead, they follow the path through which my way of designing has evolved over the years.
Each story describes an experience.
Together, they describe a way of thinking.
Relationships
Information becomes valuable when it starts connecting.
The first time I realized that an information system is not an archive, but a network of relationships.
ENEA — Second-level Master’s Degree in Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Context
Context gives meaning to data.
Information only becomes truly valuable when we know where it comes from and how much we can trust it.
ORBS — CNR & Sicilian Regional Government
Source
Every piece of information needs a home.
The discovery that organizing data always comes before automating it.
Renner Italia
Adaptability
Designing for what we don’t know yet.
Building systems that can evolve without having to be rebuilt.
L’ORMA S.S.D. – Social Enterprise
Connections
Building bridges.
Innovation often emerges from connecting tools that already exist.
QR codes · Mapbox · APIs · CSV · Integration projects
Observation
Observation is already a form of design.
Many solutions begin long before the code. They begin by paying attention.
Quality Evaluation, Fitbit, and other system analysis projects.
Ownership
Understanding a problem also means knowing who can solve it.
Following a Bluetooth issue until it stopped being my problem and became the system's responsibility.
Android AOSP · Bluetooth · Firmware analysis · TCL
Project Context
These stories are inspired by projects developed with or for:
ENEA.
CNR.
Sicilian Regional Government.
Renner Italia.
L’ORMA S.S.D. – Social Enterprise.
And by years spent observing digital products, workflows, and quality evaluation processes.