Recently, I've ordered a set of new business cards online and shortly thereafter, I received a confirmation e-mail from Little MOO, the friendly print robot. He told me that he had received my order and was forwarding it to Big MOO, the loyal print machine. Immediately, I had to think of a little robot looking… Continue reading Little MOO, the Friendly Print Robot – That’s Customer Experience!
Author: Maximilian Speicher
Scientist, Designer, Part-Time Philosopher.
why i’m a minimalist
(the funny thing is: i can't really explain why. but i'll try anyway.) i believe that there's sth. inherently beautiful to minimalistic design & content. this is what my sense of aesthetics tells me. i'd always prefer t. capote's Summer Crossing over f. schätzing's Limit, 'cause the former tells a beautiful story in 149 pages (🇩🇪 ed.) while… Continue reading why i’m a minimalist
INUIT: The Interface Usability Instrument
As one of the building blocks of my PhD thesis, I have developed a novel instrument for measuring the usability of web interfaces, which is simply called Inuit—the Interface Usability Instrument1. This was necessary because a usability instrument that is suited for the automatic methods for Search Interaction Optimization I have developed in my PhD… Continue reading INUIT: The Interface Usability Instrument
I’m back … and I’ve been playing some Ringtennis
It's been quite some time since my last post, but now that my PhD thesis is almost finished (like, really, 99% finished), I'm gonna make some more time for blogging again :). For a start, I'll write about this year's German Championships in Ringtennis, which I played three weeks ago in Recklinghausen. Statistically, it was my… Continue reading I’m back … and I’ve been playing some Ringtennis
Introducing HoloBuilder
For about 5 weeks now, I've been working in my new job at bitstars (an augmented/virtual reality start-up based in Aachen) and so far have been mainly involved in the development of our new platform HoloBuilder. What is HoloBuilder? HoloBuilder allows to create what we call 3D presentations, or 360° presentations if photospheres are involved (see… Continue reading Introducing HoloBuilder
S.O.S. Receives Best Paper Honarable Mention Award at CHI ’15
Our paper "S.O.S.: Does Your Search Engine Results Page (SERP) Need Help?"—co-authors are Dr. Andreas Both (Unister) and Prof. Martin Gaedke (TU Chemnitz)—has been awarded a Best Paper Honarable Mention Award by ACM SIGCHI, the Special Interest Group on Computer–Human Interaction of the Association for Computing Machinery. According to Wikipedia, ACM SIGCHI is "the world's leading organization in… Continue reading S.O.S. Receives Best Paper Honarable Mention Award at CHI ’15
Farewell, Leipzig!
Dear friends, as some of you already know, last year there were some complications with the extension of my PhD scholarship beyond December 31st. At the same time, I got a job offer from an augmented/virtual reality start-up in Aachen. I spent a long time thinking about all this, weighed up the pros and cons and… Continue reading Farewell, Leipzig!
#papershizzle
Phew! It was a rather busy (that's why I haven't been posting in a while), but also very successful start into the new year. A total of three full papers have been accepted at various conferences and journals. So basically, I've been revising and resubmitting papers since Christmas. First, our paper about Inuit has been… Continue reading #papershizzle
My 2014 in Blogging
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for my blog Twenty Oh Eight that went online on January 18 🙂 Click here to see the complete report. The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 11,000 times in 2014. If it were a concert at… Continue reading My 2014 in Blogging
ICYMI: This is a motherfucking website and I wrote a motherfucking conference article about it
(Disclaimer: motherfuckingwebsite.com was not made by me!) The post in which I review motherfuckingwebsite.com and propose some changes to make it even more perfect (see here) is the most widely read post on my blog by far. To date, it has received 8,715 views, with the front page of my blog being in second place having… Continue reading ICYMI: This is a motherfucking website and I wrote a motherfucking conference article about it
2008 – Tales of Design & User Experience 