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Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott

The Culture Code

The best books are the ones that change your perspective, your view on the world, in such a profound way that you don’t look at it the same way ever again. To illustrate this fundamental switch, Jeremy Keith likes to give the example of ducks and dog masks. All ducks look pe...

Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott

The Single Best Way to Take Notes

Ernest Hemingway did it. Successful entrepreneurs like Richard Branson do it. And I’m quite sure, even most of the former US presidents did it: Taking notes. As I wrote earlier this week, note-taking is not only important because you get stuff out of your head and make sure ...

Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott

The Single Best Way to Take Notes

Ernest Hemingway did it. Successful entrepreneurs like Richard Branson do it. And I’m quite sure, even most of the former US presidents did it: Taking notes. As I wrote earlier this week, note-taking is not only important because you get stuff out of your head and make sure ...

Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott

Write It Down

Whenever you have an idea, write it down. Immediately. It doesn’t matter how big or small you think the idea is. Just write it down. It doesn’t matter if you have other things to do, like changing diapers, fixing that horrible JengaScript bug, or debating on Twitter whether...

Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott

Write It Down

Whenever you have an idea, write it down. Immediately. It doesn’t matter how big or small you think the idea is. Just write it down. It doesn’t matter if you have other things to do, like changing diapers, fixing that horrible JengaScript bug, or debating on Twitter whether...

Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott

Nownownow

Lately, I’ve been listening to a lot of podcasts. I enjoy the new perspectives they provide, especially interviews. Debbie Millman’s legendary design matters podcast, for example, is only one of many great shows where the host manages to stimulate a conversation that yields ...

Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott

Nownownow

Lately, I’ve been listening to a lot of podcasts. I enjoy the new perspectives they provide, especially interviews. Debbie Millman’s legendary design matters podcast, for example, is only one of many great shows where the host manages to stimulate a conversation that yields ...

Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott

Into the Personal-Website-Verse

Social media in 2019 is a garbage fire. What started out as the most promising development in the history of the Web – the participation of users in the creation of content and online dialogue at scale – has turned into a swamp of sensation, lies, hate speech, harassment, an...

Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott

Into the Personal-Website-Verse

Social media in 2019 is a garbage fire. What started out as the most promising development in the history of the Web – the participation of users in the creation of content and online dialogue at scale – has turned into a swamp of sensation, lies, hate speech, harassment, an...

Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott

Repeat After Me

Rep­e­ti­tio est mater studiorum. Repetition is the mother of learning. You might have heard this old Latin proverb before, and it’s true: Repetition is key to memorizing something because with each ite...

Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott

Repeat After Me

Rep­e­ti­tio est mater studiorum. Repetition is the mother of learning. You might have heard this old Latin proverb before, and it’s true: Repetition is key to memorizing something because with each ite...

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

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

#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...

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...

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

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...