Sorcerers vs Wizards 2020-05-19 | Reading time: 2 minutes How do you approach complex issues? Do you go by analyzing the details, working them out, and acting then — or so you grasp the overall picture and somehow make it happen?Image: Pathfinder.[show the article]
Ethics and User Centered Design / User Experience 2020-03-22 | Reading time: 4 minutes Some — originally — late night thoughts on ethics and user centered design or user experience.Image: MP from Reibert (1994)[show the article]
Great Packaging 2020-02-16 | Reading time: Less than a minute A nice detail in a recent delivery.[show the article]
Visions of the Future 2020-02-04 | Reading time: 2 minutes It really matters which underlying assumptions we have — it influences our whole view of the future.Image: Cut from the movie "Star Wars: A New Hope" (via Wikipedia)[show the article]
Recommendation: 9 Chickweed Lane Comic Strip 2020-01-14 | Reading time: 1 minute A brilliant comic strip which celebrates art and life.[show the article]
The Problem with Functional Fixedness in Creativity 2019-10-21 | Reading time: 1 minute Lots of creative problems can be solved when we see what is really there, instead of seeing what we see.[show the article]
Recommendation: The Art of Manliness Podcast 2019-10-19 | Reading time: 1 minute An (so far) interesting podcast addressing a lot of different topics.[show the article]
Climate Change Activism 2019-10-15 | Reading time: 4 minutes Some thoughts on Fridays4Future, Students4Future, and Scientist4Future -- and strikes at schools and universities.Image: Pale Blue Dot.[show the article]
False Dichotomies (Presentation Slides, German) 2019-10-04 | Reading time: 1 minute Slides (in German) about false dichotomies (a rhetorical fallacy), expanded to cover false moral dichotomies (going back to Haidt and referring Boghossian's and Lindsay's book «How to have impossible conversations»).[show the article]
Don’t let customer support try to justify design decisions 2019-09-21 | Reading time: 3 minutes The conversation about the missing Three Panes View of DEVONthink 3 is an interesting example to me of how not to deal with customers.[show the article]
