About

The blog

Yellow line is a blog written by me, Matteo Penzo: manager, innovator and inventor (hey, I’m not kidding). The name Yellow Line comes from the Milano underground line 3, which I have use for the last 5 years (and more) to daily commute to the office.

Citing Peter Abilla I’d also like to point out that

I blog responsibly; I will not blog about anything confidential related to my employer, slander anybody, or blog about anything nasty. This blog is simply about my interests, life, business, and technology. The opinions expressed here are my personal opinions. Content published here is not read or approved by my employer, friends, or family before it is posted and do not necessarily represent the views and opinions of my employer or, anybody, for that matter. No warranties or other guarantees will be offered as to the quality of the opinions or anything else offered here. enjoy!

Me

At Gabetti Property Solutions SPA - one of the biggest real estate companies in Italy - I head the IT planning & technologies team defining techonological solutions and supervising the project implementation of the IT projects of all the group companies. Here at Gabetti I supervised the redesign of the GabettiGroup.com and Gabetti.it websites and managed the landing of the Group on SecondLife; I’m actually working on the virtualization of our whole server infrastructure.

I formerly headed the Design and Development team and the Research Center at Consultechnology; my research projects focused on natural interactions between people and computers, automotive applications, and universal design—specifically for the elderly and the disabled using eyetracking technology and voice recognition/TextToSpeech.

I’m a speaker at national and international seminars—including The Interaction Frontiers, Lift06, CHI2005, Macromedia, and VNU to mention just a few—and I have been professor for the Interaction Design course in the Masters program in Humanistic Computer Studies at Bicocca University, Milan.

I’ve written numerous articles on the subjects of natural interfaces, user experience, and technological innovation. I’m also the UXnet Local Ambassador for Milan. I’m the proud founder and publisher of an online magazine about user experience for Adobe Flash called Flashability.

You can contact me for research projects and/or speaking opportunities at matteo[AT]hotmc[DOT]com or by connecting to my Linkedin Profile.