I was born and grew up in Italy where after a happy childhood I was studying Psychology until my brain cells randomly collapsed into those of an Australian girl named Tara.
Following my heart, in 2008 I moved to Australia to study Graphic Design, meanwhile working as a waiter first, as a chef later.
In 2010 I went back to Europe to study Industrial Design and Communication (Bachelor and Master degrees), meanwhile founding a 3D printers company (building machines to 3D print houses) and a Digital Fabrication Laboratory.
Tara and I (by now married) lived across Europe experiencing the world of Art and Design in many facets.
I studied Metal Design in Ireland, and worked on crazy things with Maarten Baas in The Netherlands, while creating over 20 brand identities as freelancer.
I then worked in a Roman agency for almost 2 years, designing crazy thoughts, UX, UI, and other sinister acronyms, helping to grow 2 Junior Designers.
We moved back to Australia for good in early 2017.
Here I started off as a Wayfinding designer at COX architecture, where I was made redundant after 5 months due to company restructuring.
Turning need into a virtue, I followed my heart towards technology and after a long search (and a contract teaching Integrated Visual Systems at Raffles college) I was lucky to find Deputy.
At Deputy I started as a Web Designer, until I had the opportunity to move back to the UX side, meanwhile teaching Design Thinking at General Assembly, where I recently taught a Behavioural Economics class as well.
After a brief adventure at Domain, having rebuilt the whole of Foodbomb with the team, and reduced the justice gap at Josef, I am doing my life’s work at SplootCode.
Aside from all things design, I am fascinated by human creativity, computer science, cognitive science, maths, and decision making, which made me fall into the rabbit hole of Complex Systems and Behavioural Science, while I try to intertwine all these weird mix into the UX process.
In my spare time I think about meta-thinking, research Cellular Automata and number sequences, and share my thoughts on medium.