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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.

Chosen – User-friendly select boxes

HTML <select></select> boxes can be rather unwieldy and don't exactly cater for a stellar user-experience. To alleviate that pain Harvest provide a highly useful jQuery plugin that's been adequately named Chosen. Apart from a nice CSS styling Chosen adds several user interface improvements to vanilla HTML select boxes such as search, easy-to-use multiple selections and option groups. Using Chosen is as easy as adding the following JavaScript code to your website: $('select').chosen(); This will automatically spruce up and enrich every select box on your website ... Read more

Über den Unsinn von QR Codes in der Werbung

Sorry, this entry is only available in Deutsch.Vom BMWi gibt's jetzt die Start-App mit Infos für Startup Gründer. An sich ja keine schlechte Idee. Was mich aber irritiert ist mal wieder der QR Code. 'Einfach über den QR Code downloaden'. Ja klar, Moment, ich suche und lade mir eben eine von Dutzenden von QR Code Apps runter, mach ein Foto, geh auf den Link, der mich dann über Umwege zum App Store weiterleitet, wo ich dann die Start-App runter laden kann?! Die ... Read more

Great Review of ‘The Design of Everyday Things’

At UsabilityPost there's an excellent review of Donald Norman's seminal book 'The Design of Everyday Things' that not only describes the book but also tells a whole lot about user experience design. Read more

User Efficiency vs. Machine Efficiency

Nice example on how machine efficiency doesn't necessarily equal user efficiency: For example, which of the following takes less time? Heating water in a microwave for one minute and ten seconds or heating it for one minute and eleven seconds? From the standpoint of the microwave, one minute and ten seconds is the obviously correct answer. From the standpoint of the user of the microwave, one minute and eleven seconds is faster. Why? Because in the first case, the user must press the ... Read more
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