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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.

Jude Pullen – Designing for Questions and Provocations @ beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2022

Aarron Walter – Returning to Your Maker Roots @ beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2022

To me - with many of the speakers (Geri Coady, Jude Pullen, Cabeza Patata, among others) talking about change and experiments - Aarron Walter's idea of reconsidering (which inspired the Re:considering podcast co-hosted by Aarron) what's truly important to you has been the overarching theme of this year's beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf:

Sunday May 22nd, 2022 by Bjoern in Design, General

Manuel Matuzovic – Lost in Translation @ beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2022

At beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2022 frontend developer and accessibility expert Manuel Matuzović gave this insightful - and genuinely funny - talk on web accessibility and in particular on how information often gets lost when web developers focus almost exclusively - to the exclusion of semantics and a design's intent - on the visual aspects while translating requirements into HTML and CSS:

Sunday May 15th, 2022 by Bjoern in Design, Software, Web Applications

Linda Liukas – Programming Playgrounds @ beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2022

At this year’s iteration of beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf, Linda Liukas gave this fascinating opening talk on her ideas and concepts for a reimagined programming education:

Sunday May 8th, 2022 by Bjoern in Design, Software

Harry Roberts – Get Your “head” Straight @ beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2021

At this year's Düsseldorf edition of beyond tellerrand, Web Performance Consultant Harry Roberts gave this insightful talk on how to design and craft the oft-overlooked (no pun intended ...) HTML <head> element's content in terms of performance: Harry Roberts - Get Your "head" Straight - beyond tellerrand Düseldorf 2021 from beyond tellerrand on Vimeo.

Sunday December 12th, 2021 by Bjoern in Design, Web, Web Applications

Aaron Parecki – Why Do We Really Need OAuth Anyway? @ beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2021

At this year's beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf IndieWebCamp co-founder and OAuth consultant Aaron Parecki gave a talk about OAuth, why we need it, and how we can use it to simplify authentication and authorization in web applications: Aaron Parecki - Why Do We Really Need OAuth Anyway? - beyond tellerrand Düseldorf 2021 from beyond tellerrand on Vimeo. Aaron also provides a guide to building an OAuth 2.0 server and a video course titled "The Nuts and Bolts of OAuth 2.0".

Sunday December 5th, 2021 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applications

Welcome Back: beyond tellerrand Opening Titles Düsseldorf 2021

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 the simple, but very appropriate, words "Welcome ...

Sunday November 21st, 2021 by Bjoern in Design, Web

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

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 to be back at this wonderful event ...

Sunday November 14th, 2021 by Bjoern in Front End Development, Software, Web, Web Applications

Reprise: Petro Salema – Storyteller Extraordinaire

Almost five years ago I wrote about a talk given by Petro Salema at that year's edition of beyond tellerrand in Düsseldorf: Petro Salema – Designing Interfaces That Think @ beyond tellerrand Düssedorf 2015 A common advice given regarding talks and presentations, especially ones of a more technical variety, is to not just talk about technical details but to tell a story. While this piece of advice is good and well-intentioned it's not usually exemplified or specified in any more detail. Steve Jobs is ...

Sunday April 12th, 2020 by Bjoern in Design, Entrepreneurship, Mobile Applications, Software, Web, Web Applications

Imagination, Desire and the Call of the Future – David Delgado @ beyond tellerrand 2019

Imagination, Desire and the Call of the Future - David Delgado from beyond tellerrand on Vimeo.

Sunday October 20th, 2019 by Bjoern in Design

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