MIT Technology Review Italy
2024
UX/UI redesign of the MIT Technology Review Italia website: a simple, intuitive, and optimized editorial platform for tech content.
Context
MIT Technology Review Italia is the Italian edition of the historic technology and innovation magazine founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), with the aim of reporting on and explaining emerging technologies, their economic, social, and political impact, and their future developments. The publication offers in-depth analysis, insights, interviews, and reports, combining scientific rigor with clarity of communication for an audience of leaders, professionals, and technology enthusiasts.
Platform
The digital platform is designed as an institutional and editorial website, structured to give maximum prominence to textual and visual content. Following the MIT Technology Review design system, the site is conceived to support blogs, articles, and in-depth features with extreme simplicity and intuitiveness. The information architecture is optimized for WordPress, with a lightweight backend that enhances performance and simplifies content management. The result is a fluid and immersive navigation experience focused on top trends and the most relevant topics in technology and innovation.
Accessibility
The platform is developed in accordance with WCAG guidelines, supporting text scaling, adjustable line spacing and kerning, ARIA labels, and navigation compatible with screen readers, ensuring inclusive and compliant usability.
My takeaways
Working on the Italian edition of the magazine was a valuable experience that allowed me to collaborate with high-level publishers and editors, while adhering to strict institutional and editorial guidelines tied to the international brand. I learned to translate editorial requirements into clear and consistent UX/UI solutions, delivering clean and accessible assets for developers and ensuring a structure that effectively supports the continuous production of content. This experience strengthened my interdisciplinary collaboration skills and my ability to adapt to complex editorial workflows.