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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...

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#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...

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#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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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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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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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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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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...

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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...

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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...