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Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Last week, I met with a few friends for an evening of 80s retro computing - or retro gaming to be specific. We set up an Amiga 500 and a C64 and played classic games like Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge, Dynablaster, Sensible Soccer, California Games and International Karate. It was great fun. Retro gaming of course is a lot about nostalgia but there's also something about many of these games that hasn't been achieved in ...

Enterprise UX: Huge Potential And Anything But Boring

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Last year designer Uday Gajendar wrote this interesting post about why he designs enterprise UX suggesting more designers should follow suit. This is pretty much in the vein of another article by fellow designer Dave Malouf. I very much agree with this point of view. User experience in enterprise software generally has a huge potential for improvements that impact thousands of users in a meaningful way. Yes, enterprise software often isn't exactly nice to look ...

14. Februar 2016 by Bjoern in Design, Enterprise Software

Internal, company-specific software frameworks are evil

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.OK, I'm exaggerating a little here, company-specific software frameworks aren't exactly evil as in the true definition of the word but who isn't fond of the occasional hyperbolic headline? What I'm trying get across is that most of the times, software frameworks developed within an organization specifically for solving that organization's business problems in a reusable, maintainable manner do more harm than good. Everybody who's been exposed to enterprise software development for longer than a very ...

24. Januar 2016 by Bjoern in Design, Enterprise Software, Software

Anna Debenham @ Fronteers 2015: Front-end Style Guides

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.At last year's Fronteers Conference in Amsterdam freelance front-end developer Anna Debenham talked about front-end style guides. If you've ever heard about Pattern Lab and Atomic Design - which frankly you should've if your doing anything front-end on the web - this is what this talk is about: Anna Debenham - Front-end Style Guides from Fronteers on Vimeo. Anna presents the various kinds of style guides and style guide frameworks available and shows some real ...

17. Januar 2016 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Entwicklung, Web Applikation

Remy Sharp @ Fronteers 2015: The Art of Debugging

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.At the Fronteers Conference in Amsterdam in October JavaScript specialist Remy Sharp talked about "The Art of Debugging" or rather his debugging workflow and useful best practices and approaches for debugging JavaScript and HTML5 apps. The talk contains lots of useful information on this complex subject. So, if you're developing JavaScript applications this presentation is very much worth watching: Remy Sharp - The Art of Debugging from Fronteers on Vimeo.

27. Dezember 2015 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Entwicklung, Software

Zoltan Kollin: Misused mobile UX patterns

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Zoltan Kollin, UX designer, co-organizer of the Amuse UX Conference and co-author of UX Myths (another highly recommendable collection of user experience tips and guidelines) recently wrote a post about misused mobile UX patterns. We've seen it all on the mobile platform of our choice: icons whose meaning is hard to guess the dreaded hamburger menu and hidden screens inconsistent gestures and features that are hidden behind them Zoltan mentions those and a few more bad practices, explains why ...

20. Dezember 2015 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Entwicklung, Mobile Applikationen, Web Applikation

Primate: Walking the tightrope between mediocrity and bankruptcy

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.In October I was at this year's Fronteers conference in Amsterdam. Fronteers is a front-end developers association that organises local events throughout the year but is most well-known for this - compared to others - small (around 500 visitors) but all the more exciting conference. The event sports a familiar atmosphere and a broad range of first-class speakers presenting about all sorts of front-end web development-related topics. The videos of this year's talks are now ...

13. Dezember 2015 by Bjoern in Design, Entrepreneurship, Front End Entwicklung, Web

Fonts in use: Typefaces in the wild

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.I like the simple elegance of type, the multitude of typefaces - from very ancient to very modern - available today and the vast range of intent, identity, tone and voice typefaces allow you to convey. I think you could say I'm fond of fonts (though as any type nerd will tell you there's a subtle, yet distinct, though today not anymore relevant difference between the two) ... Seeing fonts in use in the wild ...

15. November 2015 by Bjoern in Design

Rachel Nabors: Animating the User Experience

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.In this talk interaction developer and cartoonist Rachel Nabors explains the six components of motion design and how to apply those in order not to make your UI just flashy (or should I say "gaudy"?) but to actually create a better user experience and make use of animation to support your website's or application's intent:

1. November 2015 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Entwicklung, Web

Stephanie Rieger – The Emerging Global Web

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.In this presentation Stephanie Rieger talks about how the web is accessed and used in emerging economies in Africa and Asia and why mobile plays a dominant role in developing countries: Stephanie Rieger – The Emerging Global Web – beyond tellerrand DÜSSELDORF 2015 from beyond tellerrand on Vimeo. From a developed economy point of view this is very intriguing. Though mobile devices already dominate the market in developed economies and mobile-first is the dominant design ...

25. Oktober 2015 by Bjoern in Design, Web, Web Applikation

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