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Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
Vulnerability, Creativity, and Prototyping
Vulnerability is still highly stigmatized in our society, particularly in business. If you want to be successful in life you better be brave and don’t show any signs of weakness. And vulnerability is such a weakness. At least that’s what many of us are being taught from a ve...
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
#SaveYourInternet
It’s hard to decide what’s right and what’s wrong these days. There are so many people and so many organizations with so many different interests that it’s easy to get overwhelmed and to be fooled into believing the wrong things. And so it seems to be an option to give up an...
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
Building an Accessible Mega Menu – Part 1: Background
Although some designers dislike them, because, at a first glance, they seem to be too overwhelming and too densely packed with information: If you design them carefully, mega menus work really well for site navigation. They convey site structure, present your users all avail...
Facebook Withdraws React
It's important you sign and share this petition. Right now, it's the closest thing Britain has to averting serious disaster in the next few days. It's really important, unlike the status of a single open source JavaScript project. Thank you.
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
Copy That.
When I was in school our art teacher used to say:
Kopieren heißt kapieren.
Which translates to something along the lines of “copying somet...
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
Clarity and Style
A few days ago, John Maeda, Head of Computational Design and Inclusion at Automattic, shared this tweet:
Good design is about clarity over style, and accountability over ego.— John Maeda (@johnmaeda) March 14, 2019
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Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
Information Management, A Proposal
Yesterday, the Web turned 30.
Thirty years ago, Tim Berners-Lee submitted a document called “Information Management, A Proposal,” his formulation of an information network for sharing and exchanging information at CERN, marking the birth of the World Wide Web. Three decades...
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
Planning, Goals, and Uncertainty
People like to stick to their habits. Why? Because it is safer where they are now. Following a routine, a trusted pattern, reduces uncertainty about the future and thus alleviates fear. Everything is plannable and manageable. Tomorrow is safe.
The problem is: The future is u...
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
Convenient or Unique?
If you’re riding through the suburbs in a train, you might recognize that houses usually come in two flavors. For one, there are the townhouses: Tightly packed, not too large, repeatable, convenient. And then there are the individual single-family homes which come in all for...
IndieWebCamp Online 2019 Demos
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
Considering the Opposite
When you are developing a statement about something, this advice can be useful: If you can turn the statement into the opposite and it sounds like the most ridiculous thing on earth, chances are that your original statement isn’t that distinctive.
For example, if you were t...
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Thematically Independent Web
https://superawesomecorp.com/worryingbugs/episodes/ThematicallyIndependentWeb.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Android | Google Podcasts | RSSZak and Certus talk about a group of people that are trying to blog independently together, a certain congr...
The Flexbox Holy Albatross Reincarnated
You may want to read the original Flexbox Holy Albatross post but basically, I missed a step (I was hungover): You can switch between horizontal (multi-column) to vertical (single column) Flexbox layouts just using flex-basis. No min-width or max-width needed — in fact, they...
The Flexbox Holy Albatross
For the last 6 or so months, I've been engaged in a number of activities including (but not limited to):
Scratching my head
Staring out of the window
Laying in bed and staring at the ceiling
Screaming into a pillow
Rolling around on the floor sweating feverishly while ...
zwanzigachtzehn
Homebrew Website Club – Karlsruhe
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
Our New Design Overlords and a Remarkable Future
I spent the last days of 2018 listening to an amazing podcast: Stephen Fry’s Great Leap Years brilliantly tells the story of the evolution of information technology throughout human history – from Johannes Gutenberg inventing the printing press to Alexander Graham Bell and h...
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
Drives safe!
We all know that we should backup our data regularly and ideally with some sort of backup strategy but let’s be honest: Many of us don’t. Over the years, I got a bit better, but after listening to one of the highly recommended episodes of the (mainly German) Working Draft po...