Designing better error messages
Vitaly Friedman wrote Designing Better Error Messages UX on Smashing Magazine. That is an extremely well prepared article! Vitaly is not sure if a form …
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Mozilla SSL Configuration Generator
That´s quite useful. A generator from Mozilla to create proper SSL configuration files for various http servers (Apache, nginx, Tomcat, …). Visit ssl-config.mozilla.org.
Around Bad Driburg
Road bike tour: 82.16 km and 1391 m up. A very beautiful ride. Calm streets mostly but a lot of climbing. Bike Router Track GPX …
Accessibility checklist for WCAG compliance
The A11Y project has a checklist to verify a website for WCAG compliance. This checklist targets many, but not all level A and AA concerns. …
Learn Responsive Design
Learn Responsive Design is A course exploring all aspects of responsive design. Learn how to make sites that look great and work well for everyone. …
A smiling unicorn steering a kite with its horn
Analysis and design are about making sure we understand, and are solving, problems
My notes from Rich Hickey´s talk Hammock Driven Development: There is no guarantee that if you put together a feature list, even if coming from …
Mit Krieg geht es immer schlimmer aus, als man denkt
Fairy with wings
The stripling man with a black forest cherry tart
Emil visited the black forest and the cherry tarts impressed him to a great extent! It´s not clear where the stripling man is coming from. …
Syncthing
Syncthing is a tool to synchronize multiple folders between different computers with same or different operating systems. It is open source, the synchronized data is …
Die Pflanzen und ihre Rechte
Die Pflanzen und ihre Rechte – Eine Charta zur Erhaltung unserer Natur von Stefano Mancuso. Ohne Pflanzen überlebt nichts auf unserem Planeten, der über nur …
Design systems for everyone
Ethan Marcotte has four new courses on design systems, available for free at Aquent Gymnasium. These are my notes about the excellent first course, Design …
Practicing Yoga
This is Emils understanding of what it´s about when his father is practicing Yoga.
One of our circles through nature
Now that spring is coming our daily excursions are even more joyful.
Form design
Form design by Geri Reid is a comprehensive compilation of best practices for accessible HTML forms. Geri´s site is beautiful, too.
Japanese Carpentry
Our tiny family is building a house. We are shortly before moving into the new place and I´m exhausted by the entire process. Building a …
Just write the parser
Just write the !%/* parser is one of multiple interesting notes by Tiark Rompf.
Resilient Web Design
Resilient Web Design by Jeremy Keith Resilient Web Design by Jeremy Keith is a pleasure to read. Jeremy has put together context and concept for …
Early morning on our way to the Kindergarten and it´s snowing
Emil writing his name in the snow. It´s on the engine hood of my car and Emil asked "Are we allowed to do that?" Not …
Six ways to make your site more accessible
Hidde de Vries made this enumeration in this talk. Here is a quick summary. Names Markup Structure Language Text Keyboard References Names # Use link …
Our last day of open air bathing in 2020?
It´s always sad when you feel the summer is slowly coming to an end. Emil and I are trying to stretch the time.
Beautiful Webtype
A beautiful, and useful site by Chad Mazzola with selected web fonts and font combinations. All open-source! Chad´s site even has an Atom feed 👏. …
13 ways designers screw up client presentations
A lively, enjoyable, and valid talk. Also, I like Mike´s slides very much. Mike Monteiro´s Keynote for Interaction Design Association. Assumptions prior to the client …
Flowing energy
The lines represent energy flows. At the mid-left side one of the flows enlights Emil´s name. At the right side is a control box for …
Open air bathing
Open air bathing is possible again (with some corona-constraints)
How economic inequality harms societies
How economic inequality harms societies, Richard Wilkinson, TEDGlobal 2011
I am not your Negro
"Why was it necessary to have a nigger in the first place? I am not a nigger. I am a man. When I´m not a …
The Details
The details are not the details; they make the product. Charles and Ray Eames Never to forget about it! I found the quote in The …
The 10 Principles of Good Design
Dieter Rams The 10 Principles of Good Design as stated by Dieter Rams: Good design is innovative. The possibilities for innovation are not, by any …
Google Webfonts Helper
Mario Ranftl has written the Google Webfonts Helper, which makes self-hosting Google fonts as simple as it can be. The service worker of my website …
Going Offline (book)
Going Offline by Jeremy Keith Going Offline is following the same agenda as Jeremy does in his talk. Of course, the book provides more background …
Going Offline (video)
With Going offline, Jeremy Keith is giving an excellent talk about how to turn a website into a Progressive Web App (PWA). A PWA is …
Less, but better – Rams
Rams is a documentary by filmmaker Gary Hustwit about the legendary designer Dieter Rams. For decades, Dieter Rams was leading the design department of Braun, …
Progressive Web Apps – Where Do I Begin?
Progressive Web Apps – Where Do I Begin? is not mainly about the Service Worker. Aaron is pointing out that a Progressive Web App aims …
Into the Personal-Website-Verse
Into the Personal-Website-Verse is a plea for personal websites from Matthias Ott. Excellent stuff! Read it!
The Coronavirus
The gnarly thing has an evil core, thorns, and a tiny head with teeth all through the head.
This is a web page
At its heart, web design should be about words. Words don’t come after the design is done. Words are the beginning, the core, the focus. …
Thereabouts 3 – Discovering Colombia
Thereabouts 3: Discovering Colombia from CyclingTips on Vimeo.