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Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott

The Importance of Being Inauthentic

“Just be authentic!” I’m sure you’ve heard that advice before. Maybe you also know some people, who proudly proclaim that they always like to be authentic and always openly tell people what they are thinking. There is only one problem with being authentic: It can be highly d...

Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott

Welcome to the 21st Century

My late grandmother was born in 1913. When she was my age, she had already lived through the Great Depression, the Spanish flu pandemic, hyperinflation, the fall of the Weimar Republic, two world wars, and, with the Nazi regime and the Holocaust, the darkest chapter in Germa...

Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott

Welcome to the 21st Century

My late grandmother was born in 1913. When she was my age, she had already lived through the Great Depression, the Spanish flu pandemic, hyperinflation, the fall of the Weimar Republic, two world wars, and, with the Nazi regime and the Holocaust, the darkest chapter in Germa...

Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott

Balancing Risk

Life is full of risks. The risk to make a wrong decision. The risk to lose. The risk to fail. The risk to mention too many risks in the first paragraph of a blog post. There are some risks that most of us understandably want to reduce as much as possible. The risk to die, fo...

Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott

Balancing Risk

Life is full of risks. The risk to make a wrong decision. The risk to lose. The risk to fail. The risk to mention too many risks in the first paragraph of a blog post. There are some risks that most of us understandably want to reduce as much as possible. The risk to die, fo...

Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott

Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes

Joschi Kuphal shared an amazing video on Twitter this morning. It is a documentary about an exercise that the school teacher, lecturer, and diversity trainer Jane Elliot devised in response to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968. The exercise is called “Blue...

Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott

Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes

Joschi Kuphal shared an amazing video on Twitter this morning. It is a documentary about an exercise that the school teacher, lecturer, and diversity trainer Jane Elliot devised in response to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968. The exercise is called “Blue...

Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott

Designing and Making

One of the reasons for Apple’s success in the years when they invented breakthrough products like the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad, was the way they created their products. At the heart of the design process was the design studio where lots of models and prototypes of ever...

Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott

Designing and Making

One of the reasons for Apple’s success in the years when they invented breakthrough products like the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad, was the way they created their products. At the heart of the design process was the design studio where lots of models and prototypes of ever...

Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott

The Shortcut Boomerang

I love shortcuts. Not only keyboard shortcuts but also those in real life: When there is the opportunity to solve a problem quicker and more easily by taking a different path. Such a shortcut might be a new technique that you discovered or a new tool that makes your life eas...

Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott

The Shortcut Boomerang

I love shortcuts. Not only keyboard shortcuts but also those in real life: When there is the opportunity to solve a problem quicker and more easily by taking a different path. Such a shortcut might be a new technique that you discovered or a new tool that makes your life eas...

paulazuccotti
• paulazuccotti

Future Archeology

Future Archeology is Paula Zuccotti’s first documentary feature film based on her book “Every Thing We Touch”. Can our objects tell the story of our lives? The film challenges us to imagine how future generations would make sense of our physical footprint from the objects we ...

paulazuccotti
• paulazuccotti

Lockdown Essentials x15

www.lockdownessentials.org Between March and May 2020 our lives were turned upside down as we went into lockdown worldwide, albeit with different restrictions and at different phases. This meant I could post the following question (on Instagram) and everyone understood what ...

Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott

World Wide Gamut Web

Color on the Web has seen many iterations. When I started to fall in love with the Web in the late nineties, every self-respecting web designer was using web-safe colors. Although it can be argued that they never really worked, because colors still looked different on differ...

Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott

World Wide Gamut Web

Color on the Web has seen many iterations. When I started to fall in love with the Web in the late nineties, every self-respecting web designer was using web-safe colors. Although it can be argued that they never really worked, because colors still looked different on differ...

Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott

The Right Way to Use fonts.com Web Fonts

Let’s talk about web fonts. More specifically, about a mistake I have seen developers make in several projects for different agencies: Embedding a web font in the wrong way. In each of the cases, the service they were using was Fonts.com, and given the service’s popularity, ...

Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott

The Right Way to Use fonts.com Web Fonts

Let’s talk about web fonts. More specifically, about a mistake I have seen developers make in several projects for different agencies: Embedding a web font in the wrong way. In each of the cases, the service they were using was Fonts.com, and given the service’s popularity, ...

Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott

Change and the Status Quo

Nature changes. Culture changes. Technologies change. Societies change. Markets change. We change. Change is everywhere around us. All the time. Inevitably. Change is a constant. The only problem with this is that human beings generally don’t like change that m...