Luca Barberis

Made for their own sake.

Writing on the theory of aesthetics, and the tools I build and run.

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Aesthetics

The Aesthetics and Design Principles of the Sublime Experience

SSRN, 2022
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The Patterns of Beauty: Applications to Digital Design

Amazon, 2018
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What I built

World Clock Today

iPhone · Apple Watch · Web

A world clock where the city names are the hands, not the numbers. Each city sits at its current hour on one dial, so day and night across the world read at a glance. The design is registered in the EU.

Risefinder

Web · Daily email

A daily scan of 32 public data sources for the websites, apps, repositories, packages and marketplace plugins rising fastest. Every result shows the earlier and the latest reading, with a link to the source.

Marketbound

Daily newsletter · Web

A five-minute daily read on how AI is changing go-to-market and distribution. Three top stories, then links across paid, sales, product, partners, content and retail. Every issue is reviewed by a person before it goes out.