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Experience
Head of Design
Bending Spoons
2018 - Present
Leading, managing, and supporting the Product Design function of 15+ designers. Driving and helping in sharing and adopting best practices and methods across design teams. Building and improving our design organization and operations.
Android Lead Designer
Musixmatch
2013 - 2018
Lead the design of all the Android products, at Musixmatch, the world's largest lyrics provider for big players such as Google, Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal, Deezer, and Amazon Music. Released products such as Android TV, Wear OS, Google Glasses, and Android OS apps.
The Musixmatch app got a Google i/O 2016 Award Nominee and the awards Best App Apple Store 2013,
and Best App Google Play 2014, 2015, 2018.
Project
Iconoir
The open-source library with 1500+ icons.
Iconoir is one of the biggest open source SVG Icons libraries. No premium icons, no
email
sign-up, no newsletters.
Iconoir is available on Figma, React and React Libraries, CSS and happily integrated in
Framer.
Take a look
Data
Started / Released as OSS
2018 / 2021
Downloads per Year
1 Million
Achievements
Used in HBO series Westworld S4.
Integrated in Framer editor.
Integrated in Framer editor.
↑ Millions of downloads per year via official website and npm. It excludes forked and unofficial releases, with a rough estimation of 0.3M downloads.
Project
Particular
A mobile game for iOS and Android.
Particular was featured by Apple in Europe the first week of the release, in 2016. The
game,
available for iOS and Android reached 756,000 downloads.
The game was born as a personal exploration of the world behind Unity Engine. Particular took 6 months of work, crafted in my spare time.
The game was born as a personal exploration of the world behind Unity Engine. Particular took 6 months of work, crafted in my spare time.
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Data
Published
2016
Downloads
760K
Achievements
“Games we love” Europe - Apple 2016
Talks
Politecnico di Milano
2018
Presenting 'Process of designing Products'. The
complete
process behind the build of a product, in that case, an app. The entire flow,
starting from
the User Experience and the wireframing, The Design, The Prototyping, The
Finalization and
the last step, the Development.
Dribbble Event Milan 2019
2019
The Dribbble event at Bending Spoons HQ, in Milan.
Presenting
Figma, Prototyping tools and the process of designing products.
Polimi Interaction Design Class
2019
Presenting the use of prototypes to improve the Design
Process
and to avoid common UX mistakes, and common rules to consider during the study of an
efficient User Experience.
Articles
The Making Of Particular
2020
Most of you probably don't know about Particular and its
story
because I had never decided to publish it – until now – four years later. [...]
How we boosted our design process
Mar 4, 2020
In 2018, Bending Spoons switched from Sketch to Figma. We
evaluated
the benefits and the reasons behind the change. Now Figma allows us to work in a faster
and
simpler way with developers and also teams not directly involved in the specific design
process
[...]
Designing at scale: Where creativity meets organized chaos
July 7, 2023
Here’s a question: How can a (growing) group of
individually talented designers, each with their own unique strengths and style
sensibilities, consistently strive to deliver exceptional on-brand design work for an
expanding range of diverse products?
[...]
Playground—More smaller or unreleased projects
Holoseries
2021
A visual exploration and playground. The project, inspired by the great musician and friend OVERWERK, is a mix of 3D, 2D, and animations. Interesting fact: 3D elements are made playing with Figma.
Sandbox
2021
This 4-weekends project is what I would define my very peak with the Unity Engine exploration. With an undefined name, Sandbox is a mostly complete City/World Builder Engine in which you can add, edit, move, duplicate, resize (and more) blocks or prefabs to create your own city or world.
▶ Watch the project recording (soon)
▶ Watch the project recording (soon)
Hidden
2020
Hidden is an adventure game concept set in an alternative universe, in 1975. The project lived for just a couple of weeks due to the lack of time and resources. Hidden is supposed to be a mix of exploration, puzzle, and action, with a strong focus on the narrative and the visual storytelling.
▶ Watch the artworks (soon)
▶ Watch the artworks (soon)