• Design • 1 min read
Machinarium
Knowing how much I enjoy indie games, a dear friend of mine bought me a new treat for Christmas. It’s called Machinarium, from Czech-based Amanita Design. We just finished it today, and although it wa...
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Wrong direction
In Milan, like in many other cities, public transport tickets have a magnetic strip on the side that is used to check their validity by means of electronic readers. Even now, some years after the intr...
- • Design • 1 min read
Better not to forget it: Nielsen on users
Here’s an insightful excerpt from Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox, September 21, 2009: Users don’t care about design for its own sake; they just want to get things done and get out. Normal people don’t love ...
- • Web • 1 min read
Are our passwords safe?
I can’t tell how many times I registered on a website since I started surfing the Internet, and I bet it’s the same for you. We’ve been through countless registration forms, and we had to choose a use...
- • Design • 2 min read
The importance of packaging
Your experience with some products starts as soon as start you tearing the shrink wrap around them. This is what happened to me last week. I just bought a MacBook and I had been second guessing my cho...
- • Web • 1 min read
Bittorrent video streaming on Bitlet
We recently updated bitlet.org to add support for video streaming via bittorrent. The applet allows you to watch videos while you are downloading them and doesn’t require the installation of any third...