How to make things simple, useful and fun — We are Hic Locative Media. We take complex things that don’t need to be that complex and make them simpler through better design. Geolocation is one of these things. No need to tell you: the daily flood of information doesn’t give us time to go through complicated sequences of actions…

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Fonts — You know you have to do something when opening your font drop-down menu looks like being buried with outmoded dresses from an overloaded wardrobe. …

And why we took the effort to build it — Experiences, not just places. I’m a Foursquare user. I do check-ins. And like everybody else, I don’t know why. The reason might be simple: I want to show off, I want to make my friends know how cool are the places I go to. But still, I can’t get no…

Wishing everyone many things — Photo by Andy Tyler http://www.flickr.com/photos/andy_tyler/  ‘Tante cose’ is by far my favorite Italian greeting. Like many good things, it’s old-fashioned and almost outdated: I only hear my grandparents using it today, and many people would just think it sounds pretty weird. But it has such a simple and wonderful meaning…

Read. Stop. Resume from where you’ve left. — http://www.ofcatsandcrafts.com/2010/11/holiday-link-love-for-bookworm.html I was reading a very interesting story from the Matter collection yesterday on my phone, and I had to interrupt my reading at about half the story, so I bookmarked it. Then I picked it up again from my computer, but as the story was quite long (32 minutes)…

Can we just end this religious war between different platforms? — Why do you enter into fellowship with us if you can not carry it through? […] Did we force ourselves on you, or you on us? Mephistopheles to Faust — Faust by J.W. Goethe, first part Seems like I can’t postpone my pact with the devil any longer. For more…

I recommend that you do not recommend me to recommend — Typical structure of a Medium article: The title The article The “pls recommend” part The recommend button I won’t press for the above-mentioned part Here’s how a typical “pls recommend” part looks like: If you found value in this article it would mean a lot if you hit the“recommend” button…

Skeumorphism is dead. Long live the Digital Metaphor — The very first time I used one, it happened without me even noticing. It was four or five years ago and I was taking notes during an utterly boring academic lesson. As a premise, you should know that I’m very visual in my notes: arrows, circles, bullet points, little silly…

About limited functions and unlimited freedom — Do you know what is a ‘placemark’? A placemark is a chicken teryiaki. I know, this may sound a little weird. Better go back to the start. One year ago I was wandering around at MIT. If you’ve ever been there, you know that the campus is huge, and kind…