V. Good UX aims at reducing tooltips, tutorials and FAQs to a minimum.
Sparkle up Your Website ✨
Recently, for one of my current projects, I was looking for a jQuery plug-in that adds a sparkle effect to DOM elements. However, I couldn't find any that suited my needs. Either, the available plug-ins were way too elaborated for what I had in mind or the sparkle effect just didn't exactly look like I… Continue reading Sparkle up Your Website ✨
How to Not Have a Bad Day
Some time ago, when I was still more active on Google+, I used to share a funny little animated GIF from time to time. Not just any semi-funny GIF I came across, but only those that made me laugh really hard and at which I could look a thousand times without becoming bored of them.… Continue reading How to Not Have a Bad Day
My 2015 in Blogging
In 2015 I was not as busy as last year when it came to blogging, mainly due to my new job and my PhD thesis. But still, the WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a very nice 2015 annual report for Twenty Oh Eight. I vow that I'm gonna post more regularly again next year! In case… Continue reading My 2015 in Blogging
User Experience Rule #4
IV. If your interface makes people feel stupid, they'll try to avoid it in the future. Nobody likes to feel stupid.
I gave myself a new logo as a Christmas present
The year is almost over and my blog 2008 is almost 2 years old now. A lot has changed since I started it: I wrote up my PhD thesis (that I can hopefully defend soon), started a new job at HoloBuilder.com—one of Germany's most innovative Augmented and Virtual Reality startups—and moved from Leipzig to Aachen. So… Continue reading I gave myself a new logo as a Christmas present
Paris 11/13, a Concrete Poem
#rediscovered: The Final in Men’s Alternating Doubles at the 2011 German Ringtennis Ch’ships
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReqwCXuxy_w http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j8WrF8YGCk Yesterday, I rediscovered on my hard drive two old videos that show the final in men's alternating doubles at the 2011 German Ringtennis Championships. Christian Kämpfer and Sebastian Weber of RTG Weidenau—who won their semi-final against Timo & Rainer Hufnagel—played against Alexej Ermak and me (TSV Neubiberg), after winning our semi-final against Tobias… Continue reading #rediscovered: The Final in Men’s Alternating Doubles at the 2011 German Ringtennis Ch’ships
Enabling Industry 4.0 with HoloBuilder
At this year's INFORMATIK conference held by the GI in Cottbus, I had the chance to present a research paper (full text here) about HoloBuilder—officially titled "Enabling Industry 4.0 with holobuilder"1—that I wrote together with my colleagues Kristina Tenhaft, Simon Heinen and Harry Handorf. In our paper, we examine HoloBuilder from a research rather than… Continue reading Enabling Industry 4.0 with HoloBuilder
The Search Interaction Optimization Toolkit – The Essence of my PhD Thesis
My PhD thesis introduces a novel methodology that is named Search Interaction Optimization (SIO) and is used for designing, evaluating and optimizing search engine results pages (so-called SERPs). As a proof-of-concept of this new methodology, I've developed a corresponding SIO toolkit, which comprises a total of seven components1 (most of which have already been introduced in previous… Continue reading The Search Interaction Optimization Toolkit – The Essence of my PhD Thesis
2008 – Tales of Design & User Experience 