After 25 years in design and technology, a new chapter. I’m Co-founder & CTO of Shorium. We’re building Quantum Continuity Infrastructure, starting with industrial and embedded systems. Our website is live: shorium.io Why I’m doing this: brownfieldainotes.substack.c… #cybersecurity #quantum #ai

Today the US launched America.gov, a single portal where you ask in plain language what you need from the state instead of getting lost across ten different sites. It's led by a Chief Design Officer, Joe Gebbia, one of the founders of Airbnb. That already tells you something. They understood this is a design problem, not a technology one. Then you read the details and the story shrinks a bit. The online passport, the part everyone is resharing, isn't live. It arrives in 2027. Right now the site is basically a chatbot that answers by pulling from federal documents. Useful, but a chatbot that explains how to do something is not yet a service. The service is when the passport actually shows up at your door. And in between sits all the hard part: digital identity, integration across agencies, the process that has to work behind the scenes. So much so that right now America.gov isn't even connected to Login.gov, the system you're supposed to verify your identity with. Which is like building the front door before the lock. And here's the thing we in Italy tell backwards. We always say "we're behind." But the hardest part of all this, digital identity at scale, we built years ago. It's called SPID. Millions of people use it every day to do exactly what they still have to build. The point isn't who made the nicer announcement. You don't judge a public service by the demo on stage. You judge it the day an ordinary person gets their paperwork done without understanding anything about how it works underneath. That's design. The rest is marketing.

#Samsung can mock the #iPhone Duo. That’s fair. Competition should be provocative. But from a Human–Technology Interaction perspective, I think the comparison often misses the point. A device is not just a list of specifications. It is an interaction system. What Apple has consistently understood better than most is that hardware engineering, materials, industrial design, software, services and ecosystem are not separate layers. They are parts of the same user experience. And this is where the iPhone Duo becomes particularly interesting. The engineering matters. The materials matter. The hinge, tolerances, weight distribution and durability matter. But none of them matter in isolation. The real question is: does the new form factor reduce friction or create more of it? That is the difference between designing a foldable device and designing a foldable experience. Apple’s strongest competitive advantage has never been being first to introduce every technology. It is its ability to integrate technology into an ecosystem where the complexity is progressively pushed away from the person using it. iPhone, Watch, AirPods, Mac, iCloud, services and now new device formats are valuable not simply because they work well individually, but because they behave as parts of one system. That is extremely difficult to replicate. So yes, Samsung can make fun of Apple. And Samsung deserves enormous credit for pushing foldable technology forward for years. But technological leadership is not only about who folds first, who has the biggest screen, or who wins the specification table. It is about turning engineering complexity into something humans barely have to think about. That, to me, is still one of Apple’s strongest design advantages. The best technology is not the technology you notice most. It is the technology that requires the least explanation. #HumanTechnologyInteraction #ProductDesign #Apple #iPhone #InteractionDesign #IndustrialDesign #UX #Technology

I’ve spent months building an AI studio of ~23 specialized agents, using GPT to co-orchestrate processes. One thing is becoming clear: Stop looking for “the best AI.” Orchestration matters more. GPT → co-orchestration Specialized agents → specific roles Astra + Qwen locally → coding And that last one surprised me: In my workflow, Astra + Qwen is better at coding than Claude Code. By a lot. We’re moving from choosing AI tools to designing AI systems.

Setting up an orchestration of 17 agents on one local model this week. Qwen3-Coder-30B via Ollama + opencode. Haven't tested it yet. Not 17 models in parallel, one local model the agents take turns on. The point isn't saving on API bills. It's that when nothing leaves your machine, you can automate work the cloud version would never let you touch. #AI #LocalLLM #Ollama #Agents #Qwen

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I build AI digital twins. I also made one of myself that got 25k views. But the interesting part isn't scale. Scale was never the problem. The real shift: a lesson that adapts to how each person actually learns, instead of one built for a student who doesn't exist. brownfieldainotes.substack.c…

Enterprises spend €50K on Figma licenses, €0 on fork governance. €100K on AI subscriptions, €0 on acceptable use policy. €30K on WCAG scanners, €0 on design review process. Then blame the tools when compliance fails.