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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.

7 Practical Design Tips

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Some time ago, Adam Wathan & Steve Schoger of Tailwind CSS and Refactoring UI published this article with "7 Practical Tips for Cheating at Design". While I don't think that you can actually cheat at design, design being a skill that can and has to be learned, practiced, and honed like any other, pragmatic advice such as using colour and font weight for creating information hierarchy can help with achieving some quick wins and reaping ...

Christopher Alexander – Patterns in Architecture

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Sadly, a few days ago, seminal architect and design theorist Christopher Alexander passed away. Having coined the term "pattern language" Christopher Alexander is considered the father of the pattern language movement. It is this term we as software engineers - oftentimes quite casually - refer to when we're talking about design patterns. In 1996, Christopher Alexander gave this compelling talk at the 1996 ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programs, Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA): In this talk, Alexander ...

27. März 2022 by Bjoern in Software

I see numbers

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Metaphors play a vital role in how human beings make sense of the world. The ways in which we view and describe both the world around us and abstract thoughts often are inherently metaphorical. When relating to time, for example, we often use spatial metaphors such as "to look forward to", "time moving forward", or "to turn back time". For some though, relating to time in terms of spatial concepts and relations can take on ...

2. Januar 2022 by Bjoern in Design, Allgemein

Welcome Back: beyond tellerrand Opening Titles Düsseldorf 2021

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Last week, I was at the 2021 Düsseldorf edition of beyond tellerrand. As most on-site events during the last two years, beyond tellerrand had been postponed until, earlier this year, they got the go-ahead that the event was finally allowed to take place again. In spite of the rather short time to prepare, Marc and his team once again put on a fantastic event. These beautiful opening titles celebrate the event's return to the limelight with ...

21. November 2021 by Bjoern in Design, Web

The Layers Of The Web – Jeremy Keith @ beyond tellerrand Berlin 2019

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Earlier this week - after a hiatus of almost two years on account of having been postponed due to the pandemic - this year's beyond tellerrand conference, an event about design, creativity, and the web, went ahead again. Even though Marc Thiele, the mastermind, organiser, and genuinely awesome person behind beyond tellerrand, ran a terrific series of online events under the Stay Curious moniker while on-site events weren't allowed to take place, it was amazing ...

14. November 2021 by Bjoern in Front End Entwicklung, Software, Web, Web Applikation

User Experience Design Methods & Deliverables

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.As I previously wrote about, design and user experience (UX) design are disciplines defined and governed by rules, principles, and constraints. The highly recommended Laws of UX provides an in-depth overview of principles and best practices in UX design. Coming from a slightly more hands-on perspective, designer Fabricio Teixeira compiled a comprehensive list of UX design methods & deliverables such as service blueprints, personas, or user journeys.

25. Juli 2021 by Bjoern in Design

A Collection of for a Improving the UX of Signup and Login Workflows

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Independent UX designer Erik D. Kennedy recently published an article with 15 Tips for Better Signup / Login UX on Learn UI Design - a website through which he provides acclaimed courses on both UI and UX design. The article lists general suggestions such as autofocusing on the first field (i.e. the username, or rather: email, field), immediately validating form values, or making input labels clickable, as well as more specific - but no less expedient - ...

11. Juli 2021 by Bjoern in Design, Enterprise Software, Front End Entwicklung, Software, Web Applikation

Opinion-driven Design: Simplicity Over Flexibility

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Software developer Brent Roose recently wrote a blog post on what he calls "opinion-driven design". His point his that while a mindset of "high configurability and flexibility" is undoubtedly common when it comes to the development of software frameworks and libraries, it ultimately is also misguided in most cases. In an attempt to both accommodate every possible use case and to remain in control (also known as the "Not invented here" (NIH) syndrome), framework developers tend ...

4. Juli 2021 by Bjoern in Allgemein

Second-order Affordances: Design & Quantum Superposition

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.A few years ago, having read a thought-provoking article by Csongor Bartus I wrote about design & quantum superposition. The main idea behind this article, and my interpretation, is that - similar to a particle, which exists in a state of quantum superposition - a design doesn't exist by itself but can only ever be realised in a given context and at a specific moment through observation by a user and possibly a ...

27. Juni 2021 by Bjoern in Design, Software, Web, Web Applikation

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