I currently live in Denmark and work as Digital Designer at LEGO Education. My role is to deliver best-in-class digital experiences that can help kids all around the globe learn while having fun. I started this role in November 2024 and I don't have much to say yet, so feel free to come back in a while.
Right after my bachelor degree in 2017, I did my internship as an Industrial Designer for Studio Giulio Iacchetti in Milan, Italy. After that experience, I worked as a freelencer for a few months, partly for the Opendot makerspace, and partly for my own clients, mostly small entrepreneurs and startups. By the end of that same year, I joined Studio Volpi as a UX/UI Designer, bridging the gap between physical products and their digital experiences. After two rewarding years and a portfolio full of case studies, I was lucky enough to move to Dublin (Ireland) to join Microsoft. During most of my time at Microsoft I worked around and inside Microsoft Teams, with a focus on frontline workers. Some of the solutions that I touched include Shifts, Approvals, Walkie Talkie, Viva Connections, Tags and many more. In August 2024 I was promoted and joined the SharePoint Premium team and briefly worked on the future SharePoint product offering. If you're interested, you can read more about each of these experiences on my LinkedIn profile.
During high school, I attended what in Italy is called 'Liceo Classico', an old public educational path that is focused on humanistic subjects, including literature, latin, ancient greek, history and philosophy. Despite being the toughest 5 years of my life, I learned the importance of having methodology and critical thinking, two invaluable learnings that I still apply today. With a strong desire to find a more expressive learning path and a quite considerable dose of unconsciousness, I decided to apply for an industrial design university course. I attended the NABA, a fine arts academy in Milan, and despite being one of the very few students without a former artistic background, I graduated from my Bachelor with the highest marks and with a thesis around the blend between the Italian and the foreign handicraft traditions. Besides this, I had the chance to display several of my university projects at design fairs and win a few international prizes along the way. Driven by my interest in facing more concrete challenges, right after my degree, I decided to start pursuing my professional career.
My biggest achievement is the one that still has to come. Jokes aside, I'm that kind of person that thrives by doing lots of different things and what this often entails, is that I spend little time enjoying those achievements, since by then, I probably already have a new goal in mind. On the flip side, this drives me to do more, helps me finding new growth opportunities, feeds my curious nature and, most importantly, helps me understanding what I'm not interested in.
What I love the most about design is that it sits at the intersection between art, business and technology, three subject I'm deeply passionate about. The second thing is that design it's a universal mean of expression that can be used to tackle incredibly complex challenges as well as for purely recreational purposes. The third and final aspect is that design it's an ever-evolving practice, which shifts shape as the technology evolves, so designers in a 100 years time from now will probably deal with very different problems, and that's a very exciting perspective to look at.
If the night is dark and full of terrors, then the future is foggy and full of unforeseeable events. However, dreams are still free, so when looking forward, I see myself as a creative director in a big company and an angel investor in tech startups. In both cases, I hope I'll be able to let my creative juices flow, transfer my experience to others, and ultimately keep creating cool stuff.
As some friends might say, I'm a man of many passions. While some of these come and go like seasons, some others have persisted throughout multiple stages of my life. I'm generally passionate about outdoor sports that involve exploration such as surfing, cycling, kayaking and hiking. When I'm too lazy to get up early in the morning and put on a wetsuit or a pair of hiking boots, I like taking photographs, reading graphic novels and playing various sorts of video/board/tabletop games.
