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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.

Fitts’ Law

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.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 ...

3. Juni 2018 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Entwicklung, Software, Web Applikation

The Magical Number Seven

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.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 ...

11. Februar 2018 by Bjoern in Design, Software

Designer Lynx: Curated Links About Design

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.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.

28. Januar 2018 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Entwicklung, Software, Web, Web Applikation

Iconic and Feather: 2 Icon Sets Designed for the Web

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.With icon fonts such as Font Awesome, Material Design Icons and Glyphicons there's certainly no shortage of icons for use in web applications. Iconic and Feather are 2 alternatives to these widely-used icon collections. The latter is available for free under the MIT licence (a donation will be very much appreciated, though) while the former can be purchased for $129 ($39 for just the Webfont without SVGs) for a single app licence. Both are framework-agnostic and ...

1. Oktober 2017 by Bjoern in Design, Software, Web, Web Applikation

Flexbox Explained with Animations

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Flexbox is a fairly new CSS3 layout standard that allows you to have layout elements automatically fit the available space according to layout rules defined in a website's stylesheet. While as of today still a W3C Candidate Recommendation Flexbox is already well-supported by all major browsers. In contrast to tried and true block- or grid-based layouts with Flexbox the onus of defining the exact placement of an element isn't on the designer but the browser. ...

23. Juli 2017 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Entwicklung, Web Applikation

The Noun Project – Building the World’s Visual Language

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Today there's certainly no shortage of icon sets and icon search engines (see the list below for a selection of those). These come in different flavours, mostly as icon fonts or SVG files, and can be easily integrated in a website or web application using standard HTML and CSS techniques. A particularly ambitious offering though is the Noun Project. The Noun Project provides a huge collection of curated icons (or rather huge amount of icon ...

9. Juli 2017 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Entwicklung, Web Applikation

Codrops – Web design inspiration

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Codrops is a blog that shares web design inspiration, trends and techniques. These days when thinking about your next web application's design it can be quite tempting to think "Ah, I'll just use Bootstrap and be done with that.". Although frameworks such a Bootstrap certainly aren't a bad start as they provide web apps with a common ground and predictable UI components - a minimum design standard if you will - they are just that: ...

7. Mai 2017 by Bjoern in Design, Web Applikation

Design & Quantum Superposition

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Last year, Hungarian designer Csongor Bartus published a thought-provoking article I've only recently come across. Quantum mechanics and design are two words you don't often see juxtaposed and probably rightfully so. No, I've not gone crazy and I'm not going to go down some weird esoteric "Quantum Design" rabbit hole here. However, Csongor borrows the term superposition from quantum mechanics as a metaphor for an interesting new angle on design for the web: To cut in, ...

26. Februar 2017 by Bjoern in Design, Software, Web, Web Applikation

A Collection Of Common UX Myths

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.UX Myths is website on common UX misconceptions like "The homepage is your most important page", "You are like your users" or "Icons enhance usability". The authors shed light on where those myths come from, why they're wrong and what can be done to improve your design process in each case.

4. Dezember 2016 by Bjoern in Design, Software

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