Executive Digital Director
DESIGN GROUP ITALIA | Palo Alto, CA

I am Leandro. This is my digital shed: a place where I can leave a trace of some of the things that excited me during a +20y path as technology designer.

I am thankful for the life journey that brought me where I am today. I was often lucky, and found myself in the right place at the right time. Like that time when I led the design of the very first UI for a 3G (smart) phone ever. Or when I led the very small team that patented an eye-gaze user interface to control a computer (via a contactless eye-tracker). Or when I contributed to a patent about the small screen video optimization. I miss the adventurous times crossing AR/VR borders. The attention I got giving more of 200 talks and conferences -or- the more than 200.000 aggregated Slideshare views.
I love(d)…
The 15+ years spent into Design thinking. The few patents I contributed. My dirty dozen of Awards. The 2+8 times writing into book. The memory of hundreds of students I met in various universities. The faces of friends and colleagues whom I have tried to build a better world together, a single technology at time.

- Exploring industrial A.R. @Joinpad (Milan, Ningbo)
- Following EyeTracking +Medical Devices @Srlabs (Milan)
- Nurturing A.I. @Fyberloom 
- Sharing Knowledge @Frontiers Conference (Dubai, Berlin)

Former
- Design Principal TOK.tv (sold 2019)
- UX Principal (Razorfish Healthware)

(my) Books' corner

I wrote two books (in Italian) and I contributed to a few others...
 

– Content Management, Ed. Apogeo (2002) - INDEX: Interaction Design Experience, Ed. Franco Angeli (2007)
– Link. Idee per la televisione, Ed. RTI (2007) 
– WeEconomy, Ed. Baldini Castoldi (2011) 
– Stazione Futuro Qui si rifà l’Italia, Ed. Com. Italia 150 (2011)
– Reflections from the Future, Skira (2014)
– Digital Media and HCI, Ed. Aracne (2015)
– Digital Entrepreneur, Ed. Franco Angeli (2016)

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