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Ich bin selbständiger IT Berater und Unternehmer in der Internet und Software Branche. Ich beschäftige mich mit Design, Enterprise Applikationen, Web Apps und SaaS Produkten. Ich entwerfe und entwickle Business Lösungen und Anwendungen. Ich helfe Unternehmen in Sachen Software Qualität und Wissenstransfer, z.B. mit Angular und Spring Boot.

Jeremy Keith – Enhance!

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Much in line with the talk about advancing the web without breaking it in his talk at beyond tellerrand this year Jeremy Keith argues for the benefits of starting with simple solutions to the problem at hand and building upon a solid foundation instead of giving in to the temptation starting out with ever more complex layers upon layers of complex tools and frameworks. Jeremy advocates progressive enhancement, that is making content accessible to every ...

Christian Heilmann – Advancing the web without breaking it?

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Web development today is characterized by a constant, rapid flow of new frameworks, CSS preprocessors, task runners, package managers, asset pipelines ... Angular, Ember.js, Backbone, React, Flux, Grunt, Gulp. Every week or so it seems there's a new JavaScript framework that does everything better than everything else before. We need to jump ship ever more frequently if we want to keep up and stay on the bleeding edge. There's constant bickering about which framework ...

20. September 2015 by Bjoern in Design, Mobile Applikationen, Web, Web Applikation

PPK – The Plural of Chromium is Chromia

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.He's the ultimate browser nerd. Peter-Paul Koch - commonly referred to as PPK - tests browsers and browser compatibilities so we don't have to. On his website QuirksMode he publishes articles and browser compatibility tables for each and every HTML5, CSS and JavaScript feature in the West. In his recent talk at beyond tellerrand he talked specifically about the mobile web and mobile web browsers in particular. Although the most dominant mobile platforms Android and ...

13. September 2015 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Entwicklung, Web, Web Applikation

Sara Wachter-Boettcher: Content Amid Chaos

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.At beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf earlier this year content strategy consultant Sara Wachter-Boettcher talked about Content Amid Chaos. Large organizations are inherently messy places often governed by office politics, arcane processes and design-by-committee. How do we deal with distributed, scattered content? How do we design for cluttered environments? How can we embrace such environments and devise content strategies that accommodate these organizational characteristics? In her talk Sara tries to give answers to these questions:

30. August 2015 by Bjoern in Design, Web

Dave Shea: A Brief History of Web Design

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.At beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2015 David Shea, creator of the seminal website CSS Zen Garden gave a talk about the history of web design. David Shea takes us back on a - somewhat nostalgic - journey 25 years back to remind us about nigh forgotten websites and services (does anybody still remember Hotmail and GeoCities?). There are lessons to be learned from those early incarnations of web design and mistakes to be avoided. Moreover, and ...

23. August 2015 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Entwicklung, Web

Petro Salema – Designing Interfaces That Think @ beyond tellerrand Düssedorf 2015

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Earlier this year at beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2015 I had the privilege to attend a talk by Petro Salema. Petro shared his insights about today's limits in human computer interaction, attention span, mental bandwidth and how to address these issues. While the subject matter itself is interesting enough already I've never personally witnessed such rivetting storytelling before. He started his talk with a captivating story from his home country Tanzania about Bwakila, a machete-wielding madmen. This ...

16. August 2015 by Bjoern in Design, Entrepreneurship, Mobile Applikationen, Software, Web, Web Applikation

Expanding Human Sensory Perception

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.In this mind-blowing TED talk neuroscientist David Eagleman talks about his exciting work to extend and substitute human senses and even add completely new channels to the gamut of human sensory perception that will allow us to make more sense of an increasingly complex world more quickly and more readily: Can we create new senses for humans?

19. Juli 2015 by Bjoern in Design, Ideen

Data Visualizations by Stefanie Posavec

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.This February at this year's Reasons To Be Creative London spin-off I had the opportunity to watch Stefanie Posavec give a presentation on post-infographics and data visualization. Her work and the way she has of using novel visual approaches to get the gist out of complex datasets is insightful and the results often are as entertaining as they are informative. Take this idea for instance, which conceptualizes the complex interactions of friends on Facebook as ...

12. Juli 2015 by Bjoern in Design

beyond tellerrand 2015

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Last week I attended beyond tellerrand 2015 in Düsseldorf. This year marked the fifth iteration of the event. It was once again a fantastic two days filled to the brim with a wide range of inspiring, insightful and technical talks about design. In the next few weeks I'll be posting more about some of the talks including live recordings as those become available. Until then I'll leave you with the marvellous opening titles for this ...

24. Mai 2015 by Bjoern in Design, Entrepreneurship, Web

UX Time: Responsive Tables and Smoothly Scrolling Through Large Datasets

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Today I'd like to introduce two nifty and very useful tools and techniques for better visualizing tabular data on the Web: Responsive Tables in Pure CSS: This technique (code available here) makes clever use of :before and :after pseudo elements in order to nicely display responsive HTML tables on mobile devices (or any device with a smaller screen size for that matter) without any changes to the HTML code or having to resort to JavaScript. Clusterize.js, ...

17. Mai 2015 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Entwicklung, Software, Web Applikation

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