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2014 - Malossicom
This was the first project I did for the motorcycle and scooter parts company Malossi©. It's a Wordpress© custom theme hosted on WPEngine© infrastructure with CDN caching, SEO optimization and faster than light UI responsiveness. It featured also a custom made International Store locator base on Google Maps© functionalities and apis.
2015 - Malossi Store
Malossi Store is a unique eCommerce web application developed in .NET by Fabio Ferrari and targeted to the final customer. I designed and coded the user interface, and wrote the markup, CSS and frontend functionalities, included a multimedia product viewer with 3D capabilities. It's able to search parts, based on a giant database of motorcycles and scooter brands and models. It was also possible to configure and cache user based queries and provide useful up-sells and cross-sells hints at checkout.
2016 - Malossi Commerce System
Egidio Rimoli, Head of digital at Malossi©, asked me to plan and develop the logo, icons and UI/UX of this B2B eCommerce website used by resellers to find info about products and buy their stocks for final customers. Every reseller had his personalized discounts, frequenly purchased items and personal area with invoices, order history and prsonalized documentation knowledge base. It uses the same tech stack of B2C eCommerce platform.
2016 - Placeof
Placeof was an experimental social network for book enthusiasts. After logging in, users were able to add their favourite books, including authors, summaries and places detailed in the book. Besides common information, book cards showed the geographical path featured in the book over a world map, so users could follow the story also with a visual rappresentation of book places and their relationships. Combine this with social functionalities (e.g. liking&sharing) and here you have your "literature rabbit hole"! For the project I designed the UI, developed the UX and coded the frontend in Angular.
2017 - Michielan Museum
Creative director Roberto Pomi (Moville) asked me to develop the interaction design for Michielan Museum of Ice cream. Located in Jiaxing - Zhejiang, China - the museum tells the story of ice cream through history. For this project I developed a wall screen application with ice-cream based recipes, a rotary table application (something like the "Wheel of Fortune") aimed for showing basic nutrition facts and properties about ice cream tastes, a virtual ice cream making machine and a custom platform game for kids called "Michi, the ice cream maker" with the collaboration of Roberto Fazio and Sara Colaone.
2017 - Waterfall
This project was thought and developed with Apparati Effimeri, lead architectural projection mapping and interaction design company. Visually, it consisted in an infinite stream of raylights, rain drops and flowers, capable of detecting and avoiding up to four visitors. Technically the goal was achieved by a double projection from front and top, a visualizing software written in Processing and a C++ server for presence tracking making use of real time data coming from a network of MS Kinect and the OpenCV library.
2018 - La via della libertà
"La via della libertà" is a spatial computing web project developed by Francesco Bagni. Through interactive maps, longform stories and a system of location based physical interaction with the web application, tells the fictional story of an italian partisan during WWII, in the area of the Enza river near Reggio Emilia, Italy. Fictional events follow the places of real world events that took place at the time, bringing visitors in a journey of hints and tips about historic and geographical landscape of the area. For the project I developed and coded a completely "Vanilla Javascript" web application and the Mapbox.js© custom style it uses.
2018 - Ideas to move
Ideas to Move is an EU funded web project about International Cooperation. It consists in a progressive web application for mobiles with blogging, storytelling and social features, supported by a network of information websites focused on the purpose of disseminating knowledge upon the activities, mission and humanitarian goals of international cooperation. The PWA was written in Angular, hosted on Firebase© infrastructure and maked use of their real-time data capabilities. The websites were written in Vanilla Javascript.
2019-2023 - Crafter.ai
Crafter.ai is a no-code platform, built by Athics, for building, training and deploying AI powered chatbots. Users can teach a bot through document uploads, Q&A pairs and a visual flow designer, keep an eye on misses and conflicts to sharpen its knowledge base, and track performance through a full analytics dashboard with conversations, misses, handovers and Sankey flows. Published bots can be embedded on any website with a simple script tag, or connected to Telegram, WhatsApp, Facebook and Microsoft Teams. I designed the UI/UX and coded the frontend of the whole product.