“Design” Archive
Website Optimization Measures, Part II
Now that we talked about blog clean-ups, structure and element revisions as well as search engine verification in part I, here are some additional suggestions, small measures for improvement consisting of .htaccess stuff, SEO, and consistency checks …
2007 Retrospective, 2008 Outlook
Now that 2007 is gone it’s time for a quick personal recap and 2008 prognosis: The last year has been an interesting one that included professional change along with a relocation from Berlin to Bremen, gave birth to the Second Edition of my German CSS book, meant membership …
Thoughts Dump
Thinking and quacking about WCAG 2.0 development and its new status, Opera challenging Microsoft in order to support and ensure proper web standards implementation, and some lucky restaurant staff being blessed and helped with good design …
Qualities of Design: It Works and It’s Durable
Trying to extend that simple definition of design – design reveals – I came to only one additional attribute beside functionality yet, namely durability or stability, respectively. This takes into account that a design – be it physical or “intangible” – that works may nonetheless be bad …
Recent Relaunches: ZDFmediathek and Stiftung Warentest
Something about two notable redesigns and relaunches: On the one hand, the new multimedia appearance of German broadcasting company ZDF, and on the other hand, the new website of the independent testing institution “Stiftung Warentest”.
Art of Dancing in 1910: Amazing Narratives of Time and Space
Information design time travel with several photos of Zorn’s ancient “Grammar of the Art of Dancing”. Featuring remarkable craftsmanship, “small multiples”, and the implied “narratives of time and space”.
Are You a Web Designer or a Web Decorator?
This bothers me for a long time yet, it came up when I thought about art and design, and it broke out when Roger recently asked whether we are designers or developers: Our industry is very creative in coming up with new and/or weird job titles, but …
35 Designers x 5 Questions x 1 Complainer
My endless queue of documents I need or want to read finally brought up a relatively popular interview mashup on Smashing Magazine (led by my really valued peers Vitaly Friedman and Sven Lennartz), 35 Designers × 5 Questions …
Coburger Designtage: “Function Is an Excuse”
Last weekend I had the opportunity to visit the “19th Coburger Designtage” (May 15-20, Coburg). I neither have enough health (still feeling “medium great”), nor time, nor pictures to write a full report, but I want to share two things I noted. Questionable things, right …
Heading webinale 07 … Not
I just canceled my session on the webinale 07 due to severe allergic reactions (at full tilt since Friday), probably even including a cold that flew under the radar. I don’t feel fine, and I can hardly speak. Here’s the old plan and the post I scheduled for today, for the sake of completeness …
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