October 2010
1 post
My photos from Peter Gabriel's „New Blood“ show on... →
Not only does Peter have one of the most stunning voices in rock/pop history, he’s also one of the few „real“ people in the business. No matter how perfect the show may be, it’s always the person Peter Gabriel that shines. Humble, friendly, respect…ful towards his audience as well as towards his musicians. He took the time to prepare all his announcements in German, and to...
September 2010
1 post
If Rule #1 is No Working on Weekends, Rule #2 is No Rigid Rules. Things will...
– Dave Caolo: A Freelancer’s Schedule — Nice article about the schedule of a freelancer. It’s important to see how others do it. (via yatil)
August 2010
6 posts
The Problem with Facebook's "Places" →
yatil:
They [Facebook] are slowly destroying independent web applications with boring versions that immediately win due to Facebook’s population (which at this point is the 3rd largest country on earth). There’s no demand for excellence. Just make sure the feature list keeps growing.
Eric Eggert: Blog: A long description on why I... →
The longdesc attribute in HTML is history. Finally.
I had my gripe over the last few years with that attribute and I think it’s good that it’s gone. I dislike everything about it: Content gets hidden away, at a different URL. That’s unintuitive. And it even get’s worse: People don’t know how to…
Dream big, implement small.
– twitter.com/simplebits (via simplebits)
July 2010
3 posts
Prefer Code to Comments.
– (via mnmal) (via yatil)
yatil:
We, the Best Practices Stammtisch Essen, joined the largest happening in Germany: 60km (37mi) of autobahn were closed down and equipped with picnic tables. We offered free website advice and a large analog twitter wall seeing approx. 12 meters of tweets. See @ScreenOrigami and me in action in the video.
Der BPSE berät analog (by @DieSteph)
June 2010
1 post
Using dummy text often results in an aesthetically pleasing but unrealistic...
– UX Myths: Myth #19: You don’t need the content to design a website (via yatil)
March 2010
1 post
yatil!: →
Following the uproar about the language of my presentation which was part of the Global Ignite Week I have to make some points clear for all those naysayers, especially on twitter:
I really enjoy speaking English. This might be a surprise for you, but I feel really well speaking and writing…