In 2018 I decided to read 52 books in a year, one every week. In this blog post, I’ll let you know if I recommend this and what I learned during the ‘journey’. You might be thinking: why?! Well, I like a good challenge, and perhaps so do you. We see all those weird challenges on the internet lately, from taking a cold shower every day to reading 52 books in a year. The latter…
The state of design in 2019 In recent years design has become much more mature, we know what works for conversion and sales, we…
This curiosity of me about beauty all started because too many people neglect or don’t acknowledge the power of beauty. Too many people don’t…
I recently discovered a new approach to check if the usability of my design is right. And I do this by comparing my design to a human conversation because a design is often nothing more than a good conversation with the user, right? Let’s start with an example. Let’s say you are designing a webshop for TV’s, sounds fun? Then the next thing to do is to wonder how selling a TV in real life…
“Visual Intelligence” is one of the 52 books I’ll read this year. And after reading the first chapter, I kinda felt like I just…
This year I got myself into a challenge of reading 52 books before the end of the year. So from time to time, you’ll…
When I was still in college and wondered how to choose a typeface, I would do some research on a typeface and find something like “this typeface has been designed for easy reading”. That would suffice and I would pick the typeface. Today I laugh about my past ignorance, because there are so much more reasons to pick or not to pick a typeface. Interested in the difference between a typeface and font first? Read…
When we talk about typography, we either refer to it as a typeface or a font. And in most situations, it’s fine to use…
An important thing to always keep in mind while designing things for other people, is that the market changes, society changes, and thus the societies needs…
Dan Saffer says it is the way to create “The difference between products we love and products we tolerate”. Some say it is “The way to explain a lot without using words”. But I know them as Micro-Interactions. I’m convinced we should pay more attention to micro-interactions in our design, so I hope I can convince you as well. So what are micro-interactions? Micro-interactions are tiny interactions we perform continuously during the day. While setting an alarm…
