Posts Tagged user experience
The internet of things in my bathroom
I’d like to thank Paolo Guglielmoni for asking me to write a guest post on his Geek Advertising blog; Paolo is Creative Director at LeoBurnett and has created this fantastic idea of merging his Advertising background with his Geek passion. The site is really worth a look.
If you can read Italian (or if you can stand the Google Italian to English automatic translations) you’ll find my thoughts on Internet of Things and how oure children will laugh at non-connected objects the same way we laugh at audiotapes.
Oh, and I also speak about the Withings, a superbly designed wi-fi scale that has found its home in my bathroom.
I won’t buy the Amazon Kindle
Amazon’s recently news about the European distribution of their eBook reader, the Kindle (a groundbreaking success in US last year) mounted quite a buzz here in Italy (the country were I currently live): it’s the first official move from the US ecommerce giant here, and took everybody (I have at least a friend who largely previewed this sometime ago) somebody by surprise.
Back to the title of this post I’d say that not only I won’t buy the Kindle, but – at the current conditions of offer, price and general country-based context – I’m not going to buy any kind of reader for ebooks.
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UX Conference in Lugano
Note: all outgoing links will lead you to pages in Italian.
The UX Conference claims itself as “The first conference on the user experience with a look at the innovation in strategy & design, mobility, playability and agile methods”.
You might want to buy a ticket here using my personal discount code (I’ve checked with Luca, and he’s fine with this 
) which gaves you access to a 10% discount (on the early bid price too):
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As strange as it could be (it’s a small World) 3 of the 4 Keynoters are close friends; you might also want to join them as a speaker submitting a paper for review.
