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I’m an independent IT consultant and entrepreneur in the Internet and software business. I’m interested in design, enterprise applications, web apps and SaaS products. I design and develop business solutions and applications. I help companies in terms of software quality and knowledge transfer, e.g. with Angular and Spring Boot.

Karl Groves – Hidden in Plain View: Bleeding Edge Accessibility so Good You Never Noticed @ beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2018

Sunday July 22nd, 2018 by Bjoern in Design, Software, Web Applications

Claire L. Evans – Broad Band – What History’s Female Internet Pioneers Can Teach Us About Tomorrow @ beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2018

Sunday July 15th, 2018 by Bjoern in Design, Software, Web

Vic Lee – No Effing Failure @ beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2018

Sunday July 8th, 2018 by Bjoern in Design

Tracy Osborn – Design for Non-Designers @ beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2018

Sunday July 1st, 2018 by Bjoern in Design, Software

Jared Tarbell – Generative Spaces @ beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2018

Sunday June 24th, 2018 by Bjoern in Design, Software

Fitts’ Law

One of the quintessential laws of human-computer interaction (HCI) and by extension software user experience is Fitt's Law, which states that the time required to rapidly move to a target area is a function of the ratio between the distance to the target and the width of the target. The most common application of this law these days can be paraphrased as "The wider an object is on the screen and the closer it is to the mouse pointer the easier it is ...

Sunday June 3rd, 2018 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Development, Software, Web Applications

Alexandra Leisse @ RuhrJS 2017 – Death by a thousand paper cuts

At RuhrJS 2017 UX designer Alexandra Leisse talked about her personal experience with designing user experience for enterprise applications and how to deal with the continually growing complexity involved in that process:

Sunday April 22nd, 2018 by Bjoern in Design, Enterprise Software, Front End Development, Software, Web Applications

One Cannot Not Design

One cannot not communicate. - Paul Watzlawick Philosopher and communication theorist Paul Watzlawick famously stated as one of his five axioms of group homoeostasis (the ability of a system to maintain its current state or equilibrium) that "one cannot not communicate", meaning that it's impossible to completely avoid communication. Even the act of intentionally not communicating - by staying silent for example - is an act of communication. In the case of silence depending on the communication situation this could be interpreted is ...

Sunday March 4th, 2018 by Bjoern in Design

The Magical Number Seven

This article by designer Jeff Davidson is an informative reminder of the well-known observation that human working memory has a capacity of 7 items (give or take 1 or 2). This observation, originally posited by cognitive psychologist George A. Miller in his paper The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two is a crucial guideline for designing user interfaces. If a user interface contains more than that number of different chunks of information it'll appear cluttered and overloaded to the user, who will ...

Sunday February 11th, 2018 by Bjoern in Design, Software

Designer Lynx: Curated Links About Design

Designer Lynx is a curated collection of articles and other relevant resources such as design systems, icons, prototyping tools and software for designing user interfaces. Further categories include UI design inspiration and design topics such as colour and typography.

Sunday January 28th, 2018 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Development, Software, Web, Web Applications

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