Hi, I am Massimo Curatella.
I am a Strategic Designer and a Facilitator. I write about design, education, facilitation, and Systems Thinking.
I work as a Senior Strategic Designer in the fields of Service Design, UX Design, Interaction Design, User Research, User Interface Design, Usability Testing and managing small remote groups of designers and developers.
Subscribe now tO Receive my Newsletter
I the last 25 years I have been designing, developing, writing, speaking and teaching about digital technologies.
I am expanding my online and live Facilitation services to cover: Collective Intelligence Design, Systems Practice and Systems Change.
I aim at improving the well-being of people and the planet while promoting the sustainable adoption of new technologies and co-designing ecosystem-centered solutions. I facilitate learning processes by simplifying the complex.
I believe in Systems Thinking, Critical Thinking and Design Thinking and I feel I have never learnt enough about being more effective and efficient with those disciplines.
I am writing about my experience on this blog.
I am based in Rome, Italy. I work remotely. Or I remotely work…
These are some people inspiring me.
Some highlights from my website curatella.com:
- What I have learned by writing 100 daily articles in a row.
- One Year Writing: 30 Lessons Learned in 30 Days. My challenge to publish 30 atomic essays in 30 days.
- Writing Half a Million words in One Year. I have been writing for my 365th day in a row, for a total of half a million words.
- The habit of building habits
- Notes. A growing collection of notes, reflections, and connections.
- My notes about Systems Thinking
- All articles about Design
- All articles about Facilitation
- All articles about Writing
Discover My Passions
books collaboration collective intelligence communication complexity creativity critical thinking design design leadership design strategy design thinking drafts education facilitation free-flowing future thinking how innovation leadership learning networked thinking networks newsletter note-taking notes personal development personal knowledge management planning poetry problem-solving professional development reading research reviews Ship 30 for 30 short stories speculative design storytelling sustainability systemic design systems thinking thinking what writing zettelkasten
Read my Latest Articles
- You Can’t Always Invent
If we have a system to capture ideas when and where they come to our attention we prepare the building blocks for our next piece. - Why is it interesting?
Hoarding information is different from building up knowledge. When we fall prey to information overload, we suffer from the failure of our attention filter. - Conjuring Creativity
We become more creative with addition and subtraction: by removing distractions and waste and adding stimuli in time and space. - One Year Blogging Challenge Complete
I wrote and published 365 blog posts, meaning, I’ve been writing for one year, every day. - New Beginnings?The day before completing my 365 daily post writing challenge, I am thinking about my next habit-forming strategy.
- The Pleasure of Connecting KnowledgeIt’s nice to find somebody else treating the topics that you love in a clear and entertaining way.
- Lousy transcriptionLorem ipsum, dolorem pansa?
- To Clarify Make The System Visible FirstLuck is not the wisest choice in sensemaking.
- More Reading, Then WritingShall I do “a year of draft writing”?
- Explaining the reason for a failure is illuminatingA precise, documented and motivated description of the exact work I am not doing.
- Spending time with people to learn and getting inspiredHow do you know what to design if not researching what your users want, need, desire?
- How to receive brutally honest feedbackAnd only at the end try to give context, application, and audience.
- Write about what interests people you knowIt becomes essential to have a collection of real people corresponding to the conversations I like to have and would like to develop.
- Fighting the blank page with networked notesall sounds good. Let’s see what practicing it will look like.
- The Metaverse is a jungleIt’s a fantastic always-changing fluid technological world and we need to be responsible and careful in living it.
- Annotating Podcasts and Connecting ContextuallyI would call that a partial success. I am looking to improve this knowledge capturing workflow because I like how it started, I don’t like how it ends.
- Write for your future, past, and present selfLeverage on this multiplicity by identifying your three selves as real persons whom you can talk to.
- Learning Expands Our SensesHow can we keep the curiosity active? Playing a musical […]
- Reflecting on voids and missed opportunities (draft)It’s in the behavior: a sequence of actions leading to order or disorder according to different points of view.
- Approaching the horizonI wrote every single day. What about the rest? What did I learn? What did I build? These are the kind of questions it will interesting to ask myself.
