Hi, my name is Simone, and I design with code.
I work as a Senior Data Visualization Expert at Cisco ThousandEyes where I am part of the Network Assurance Data Platform team.
I am a frog alumnus. In the last few years, I helped designing websites and smart products for big players in the Telco, Healthcare, Finance, Insurance, Services, Media, Automotive, Consumer Electronics, and Entertainment industries. I prototyped and wrote code for mobile apps, online financial tools, chatbots, corporate websites, online newspapers, remotely-controlled devices, and autonomous vehicles.
In 2019 I co-founded Visualize News, a collective of computational designers. In 2020 I started collaborating in the development of chrt an easy-to-use charting framework.
In my work, I mainly use HMTL and JavaScript, but also PHP, NodeJS, and Python; I also prototyped physical products using Raspberry Pi and Arduino.
If you want to know a little bit more about me, please visit my LinkedIn profile, or follow me on Twitter, GitHub, Medium, Pinterest, or Behance. I also draw a lot, I publish my artworks on Instagram and sell t-shirt of my designs on Spreadshirt. If you are curious about what I read when online, my bookmarks and snippets are public.
Selected resources
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Faceless Persuasion ➔ [2024 | sl]
My personal online archive of (mostly) political propaganda posters from all over the world
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Meloni VS Schlein ➔ [2024 | Visualize News]
A visualisation that tries to compare press coverage of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and lead of opposition Elly Schlein
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Storia della Sinistra Italiana 1892 - 2020 ➔ [2021 | Visualize News]
A data-driven poster explaining the evolution of Italian left-wing parties.
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Sanremo Music Festival: Adding Colors To Chrt ➔ [2021 | Chrt]
A blog post about how the Sanremo Music Festival data visualization has been created using Chrt
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Overlaying a grid to facilitate the reading of multiple charts in the same page ➔ [2021 | Medium]
A short article that describes some of the design choices behind the Traffico a Milano project
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Going retro ➔ [2021 | Chrt]
A blog post about how to create vintage-looking charts using Chrt
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Chrt Blog ➔ [2021 | Chrt]
The blog of the charting library I'm helping build.
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Evoluzione del parco macchine dei residenti a Milano 2011 - 2019 ➔ [2021 | Visualize News]
A visualisation that shows how the number of cars registered to the City of Milan residents changed over time.
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La guerra dei generi a Sanremo ➔ [2021 | Visualize News]
An instagram chart about gender representation in the Italian Sanremo Music Festival, the largest pop event in Italy since the 1950s.
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Qualche riflessione sulla «fase due» della pandemia di COVID-19 in Italia ➔ [2020 | Medium]
A short article with some explanation about the data visualization we created during the Corona Virus outbreak.
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Corona Virus in Italy ➔ [2020 | Visualize News]
A collection of charts and graphs to help understand how the COVID-19 situation in Italy is evolving. Updated daily with data from the Italian Civil Protection and the Johns Hopkins University.
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L'aria di Milano [2020 | Visualize News]
A data visualization project about air quality and pollution in Milan, Italy. Data is gathered from the City of Milan Open Data portal.
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Salvini meglio di Forrest Gump: tra comizi e feste della Lega, ha percorso oltre 106mila Km in un anno ➔ [2019 | La Repubblica]
The online edition of the Italian major newspaper La Repubblica published an article and a short interview about “Matteo in Tour”.
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"Matteo in tour", il sito che calcola i Km percorsi dal ministro in tour permanente ➔ [2019 | Huffington Post]
An article published on Huffington Post Italy about the “Matteo in Tour” project.
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Com’è nato Matteo in tour, il sito che calcola i km di Salvini ➔ [2019 | Lettera 43]
An article published by Italian magazine Lettera 43 about the “Matteo in Tour” project.
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Matteo In Tour [2019 | Visualize News]
Italian Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Internal Affairs is a dope traveler. Since he took seat, in June 2018, he already attended more than 300 public events across Italy. In this first experiment with DeckGL and Mapbox, I try to visually represent his travels.
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Lok Sabha 2019 ➔ [2019 | Visualize News]
A real time dataviz about the 2019 Indian General Elections.
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How does Elezioni.io work ➔ [2018 | Medium]
Elezioni.io is a news aggregator and analysis tool about the Italian general elections held on March 4th, 2018
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Hacking a Multi-User Game Drone Race ➔ [2018 | Designmind]
frog Milan Design Technologists reflect on creating a drone racetrack and multiuser game--from scratch.
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Elezioni.io ➔ [2018 | Visualize News]
Elezioni.io is a news aggregator and analysis tool about the Italian general elections held on March 4th, 2018.
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Drone race ➔ [2018 | Medium]
We took a Parrot mini-drone and transformed it into a merciless warrior. Sort of…
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Porsche Driving Digital Design ➔ [2017 | frog]
Porsche asked frog to design its next generation connected car apps. The collaboration resulted not only in the launch of the Porsche Connect and Porsche Offroad Precision apps, but also a design language, code library and user-centered methodology that empowered Porsche to scale its delivery of exceptional digital experiences.
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AXA Digital Design Language System ➔ [2017 | frog]
To launch an ambitious new online experience, AXA Group collaborated with frog to simultaneously redefine its content strategy, design language system and user experience, in just nine months.
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Twitter Trending Topics ➔ [2016 | Medium]
What are the websites that feed Twitter's trending topic?
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Not A Magazine ➔ [2016 | Medium]
This website isn't a magazine, but it features the nicest articles about design nonetheless.
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Audi Entertainment Mobile ➔ [2016 | frog]
Leveraging insights from field research in China and the United States, frog helped Audi advance rear seat entertainment with the launch of the Audi Entertainment mobile (AEm).
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Marco Polo Shop ➔ [2016 | frog]
Marco Polo, a leading Italian electronics retailer, asked frog to reimagine its e-commerce web experience and extend this service to mobile and tablet devices.
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Miss Fletcher, the Chatbot [2016 | SL]
A chatbot, powered by Wit.ai, used to search notamagazine.xyz's archives
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Lovie Awards Silver Winner AXAGroup.com [2016 | Lovie Awards]
Frog's redesign of AXA corporate website won a Lovie Awards in 2016
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Create a smart clock with a Raspberry Pi ➔ [2015 | Medium]
I recently finished working on the first version of a “smart” wall clock based on a Raspberry Pi Model B. Since this kind of setup allows you to create endless solutions while being extremely simple to develop, I think sharing the basics about how I did it could be interesting
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PHP Boilerplate and Utility Classes ➔ [2015 | Medium]
A PHP framework I created to quickly bootstrap PHP applications, and a set of PHP utility classes.
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Sun'o'clock ➔ [2014 | Medium]
A home-made smart clock for my home, complete with weather forecasts and info about available public transit around it.
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Motion and Gesture Interactions in the Digital Age ➔ [2013 | Medium]
A talk that Antonio de Pasquale and I presented at Codemotion Madrid 2013.
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Connected Care Solution [2013 | designmind]
As technology disrupts established healthcare systems and the traditional patient-provider dynamic, frog introduces a prototype Connected Care Solution (CCS) that seamlessly connects doctors and patients and supportive communities.
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Arrivo Mobile App ➔ [2013 | Behance]
“Arrivo” as in “I'm almost there…”: an iOS application to keep track of public transport network status in Milan.
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Agheera Pulse [2012 | frog]
To help Agheera's customers keep a sharp eye on their shipments, frog and Agheera designed and built a real-time data platform to monitor conditions from departure to destination.
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Fogget About It ➔ [2010 | Medium]
An internet radio based on SoundCloud's APIs.
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Doc@Hand ➔ [2006 | eHealthNews]
Doc@Hand is an advanced platform aiming to easily access a wide set of data such as clinical records, clinical cases, and diseases correlated information, supporting Healthcare professionals.