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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.

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 ...

Toby Shapshak: You don’t need an app for that

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.In a 2013 TED talk South African writer Toby Shapshak talks about innovation out of necessity and how entrepreneurs in Africa are solving real-world problems for both their own continent and the world as a whole:

11. Oktober 2015 by Bjoern in Entrepreneurship, Mobile Applikationen, Web

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

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

I don’t want an app for that

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Scott Adams of Dilbert fame recently posted an article on why your phone interface is a legacy train wreck. He argues that the way we interact with our smartphones goes all the way back to the beginning of desktop computing. In spite of what Apple probably would have us believe - in spite of swiping, tapping and multitouch - we're still largely using our computing devices as if they were a 1987 IBM PC ...

5. April 2015 by Bjoern in Design, Mobile Applikationen, Web

Apple, Google, Microsoft – What do they do best?

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently made some interesting points about what he thinks are the core strengths of Microsoft and its competitors Apple and Google. Though I can't really say I particularly like Microsoft products or would use them as a platform or tools for my own products there's some truth to these statements: "Whereas in our case our identity really is about empowering others to build products." "[ ... ] we want to be the tools provider, the platform provider [ ... ]" Google, ...

23. November 2014 by Bjoern in Business, Mobile Applikationen, Software, Web, Web Applikation

Impulse – Dynamic Physics Animations For The Mobile Web

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Impulse is a promising new JavaScript animation framework for mobile websites. The animations generated with Impulse look very smooth and natural. Very impressive work. Go check out the examples page for a first glimpse.

26. Oktober 2014 by Bjoern in Design, Mobile Applikationen, Web Applikation

Resources For SaaS Businesses And Enterprise App Developers

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.SaaS Club is a new website that keeps track of relevant resources for SaaS businesses and developers. These resources are organized both in categories such as 'product', 'metrics' and 'sales' and according to their target audience, e.g. 'developers & designers' or 'managers & product people'. Enterprise App Developer Atlas is an 'interactive map of the developer journey', i.e. it's a catalogue of tools for enterprise web app development. Tools are organized according to product phases ...

9. März 2014 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Entrepreneurship, Mobile Applikationen, Web Applikation

Eine sinnvolle Alternative zu QR Codes

Vor kurzem habe ich über den Unsinn von QR Codes in der Werbung geschrieben. Neben Zustimmung gab es auch ein paar Kommentare, in denen darauf hingewiesen wurde, dass es eben doch sinnvolle Anwendungszwecke für QR Codes gibt. Der einzig wirklich interessante Anwendungszweck darunter war meiner Meinung nach für Anwendungen wie z.B. AirDroid. Dabei authentifiziert man sich ohne Passwort und Co., indem man einen auf einem Bildschirm angezeigten QR Code mit seinem Smartphone einscannt. Sehr clevere Lösung. Alle anderen Anwendungszwecke, von metropolradruhr, über Infos ...

2. Juni 2013 by Bjoern in Design, Mobile Applikationen

A Few Notes On Responsive Design

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.I've been doing quite a bit of work involving responsive web design lately, which is why I thought I'd share a few useful resources I came across. First, there's an article by Luke Wroblewski about the importance of considering mobile devices first for websites and web applications. Ethan Marcotte describes foundations and some techniques of responsive web design. An article by James Young deals with 'the top responsive web design problems and how to avoid them' Brad Frost ...

31. März 2013 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Entwicklung, Mobile Applikationen

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