I build systems rather than isolated solutions.

At HCLSoftware I lead UI design for BigFix, where I own how the products in the BigFix family are structured, governed and implemented, from the first grid to the last chart. I lead a distributed team of designers there, and the Leadership page tells that story in full.

I treat accessibility as an operational capability and not as a compliance exercise. I designed and delivered a structured programme that combines education, applied implementation and continuous improvement, built to WCAG 2.2 Level AA as a baseline and aligned with the European Accessibility Act and Section 508. More than 700 professionals across design, engineering, QA and product have completed it.

I established design system and UI governance frameworks that standardise interaction patterns and speed up delivery. That work has taken shape as Mandala, an accessibility-first, token-driven design system that I am building at HCLSoftware, with AI and agentic approaches used thoughtfully and with intention. Knowledge and experience lead, and AI augments that work without replacing it.

I began my career in the travel industry, where I worked as a product manager for many years, before going back to school to study design. I completed a Master's degree in design and spent the next years at a design bureau, where I designed and coded the front end of two websites for the Bank of Italy, built to the strictest level of accessibility. That project taught me early that a design is only as good as the way it is built, and it started a career-long interest in accessibility.

I then freelanced for several years, working directly with clients, mostly in the fitness industry. There I designed an app for personalised training and live classes, built a video library, and created brand identities for training studios. Two of those projects are now case studies on this site.

In 2021 I joined HCLSoftware as a Senior Designer in the UX Center of Excellence. In 2022 I started My HCLSoftware and Marketplace from a blank screen, and the design language built there became the foundation of the BigFix interface from 2024, and then of Mandala.

I have never stopped learning. I completed the d.MBA in 2024, one of the most important courses I have taken, and I am constantly studying: taking courses, reading articles, attending conferences and webinars, and joining discussions with other people in the field.

I combine strategic systems thinking with hands-on design leadership. I define standards, set the design direction, and work closely with engineering and product leadership, so that what reaches development is something people can build well.

I work natively in Italian, English and Danish, and I have led design work across countries and time zones, which is a real advantage for global teams.

My ideas rarely begin at a screen. They come from the rainforests, volcanoes and lakes I have travelled to, from Kandinsky and Leonardo da Vinci, from Bruce Lee's habit of inventing new rules instead of playing by his opponents', and from Vivaldi's Four Seasons in the background while I work. I tell more of that story on the Inspiration page.

I also speak about accessibility at conferences and events, and I teach it the way I learned to care about it, by starting with the person.