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I’m an independent IT consultant and entrepreneur in the Internet and software business. I’m interested in design, enterprise applications, web apps and SaaS products. I design and develop business solutions and applications. I help companies in terms of software quality and knowledge transfer, e.g. with Angular and Spring Boot.

Jina Anne @ beyond tellerrand 2017 – Design Systems: Real Talk

Jina Anne @ beyond tellerrand 2017: Design Systems: Real Talk from beyond tellerrand on Vimeo.

Phil Hawksworth @ beyond tellerrand 2017: Dodging Bullets – Microservices for Fewer Sleepless Nights

Phil Hawksworth @ beyond tellerrand 2017: Dodging bullets – Microservices for fewer sleepless nights from beyond tellerrand on Vimeo.

Sunday June 18th, 2017 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Development, Software, Web

Chris Heilmann @ beyond tellerrand 2017: Breaking out of the Tretris Mindset

Chris Heilmann @ beyond tellerrand 2017: Breaking out of the Tetris mind set from beyond tellerrand on Vimeo.

Sunday June 11th, 2017 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Development, Software, Web Applications

Nadieh Bremer @ beyond tellerrand 2017: Hacking the Visual Norm

Nadieh Bremer @ beyond tellerrand 2017: Hacking the Visual Norm from beyond tellerrand on Vimeo.

Sunday June 4th, 2017 by Bjoern in Design, Web

Codrops – Web design inspiration

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: A start. In order to really help ...

Sunday May 7th, 2017 by Bjoern in Design, Web Applications

Dan Bricklin – Inventor of the Electronic Spreadsheet

Today startup entrepreneurs are celebrated for disrupting industries and changing the world. Marc Andreessen is famously quoted with the statement "Software is eating the world!". Back in the days when software was nothing but a nascent industry, Dan Bricklin both changed the world with software, disrupted not one industry but several at the same time and in fact almost single-handedly created the industry of small business software. His name nowadays isn't exactly well known as is the software he created. The new ...

Sunday March 19th, 2017 by Bjoern in Design, Software

Design & Quantum Superposition

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, let's equip all content with all states ...

Sunday February 26th, 2017 by Bjoern in Design, Software, Web, Web Applications

Co-create

Half a house is a 99% Invisible (a podcast about anything design and architecture - highly recommended if you haven't subscribed yet) episode about a housing project in the Chilean town of Constitución. After an 8.8 magnitude earthquake in 2010 the people of Constitución were in dire need of affordable housing. The solution the Chilean architecture firm Elemental, who were tasked with the project, came up with is equally radical and beautiful. It epitomises the spirit of co-creation and design principles like Wabi-sabi. ...

Sunday January 22nd, 2017 by Bjoern in Design

Golan Levin on Software (as) art

I'm very interested in generative art and creative data visualisation techniques by designers and artists such as Mike Brondbjerg, Jared Tarbell and Joshua Davis. In this 2004 TED talk media artist Golan Levin showcases some of his brilliant work that uses software to generate sound and accompanying visuals:

Sunday January 8th, 2017 by Bjoern in Design, Software

A Collection Of Common UX Myths

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.

Sunday December 4th, 2016 by Bjoern in Design, Software

Björn Wilmsmann

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