Depending on who you ask, a design system and a design language might be the same thing or not. Regardless, the important point here is that both a system and a language go beyond a simple pattern library. They have to include a set of rules and guidelines to give the included components structure and meaning.
Tag: web design
The Design Philosophy Behind My New Website
After analyzing my old website, I decided to put more emphasis on (1) identifying and highlighting the pieces of information that are actually useful and (2) a two-dimensional approach to displaying my CV along traditional categories and skills/topics. Moreover, I set myself design constraints that forced me to keep my new website as clean and simple as possible, following the design philosophies of brutalism and Mies van der Rohe.
The Arrival of the Web 3.0
What is Web 3.0? That’s a good question! And I’m pretty sure I won’t be able to answer it in this essay. Yet, I’ll try my very best to get closer to the answer. There exist several definitions of Web 3.0, none of which can be considered definite. A very general one describes it as… Continue reading The Arrival of the Web 3.0
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
What is ›Usability‹?
Earlier this year, I submitted a research paper about a concept called usability-based split testing1 to a web engineering conference (Speicher et al., 2014). My evaluation involved a questionnaire that asked for ratings of different usability aspects—such as informativeness, readability etc.—of web interfaces. So obviously, I use the word “usability” in that paper a lot;… Continue reading What is ›Usability‹?
motherfuckingwebsite.com Redesigned. My Other Poster Presented at #ICWE2014
(Disclaimer: motherfuckingwebsite.com was not made by me!) From my original post about redesigning motherfuckingwebsite.com (see here), I have created a poster along with a corresponding short paper, which have been presented at the 2014 International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE). The short paper will be included in the conference proceedings published by Springer: Maximilian Speicher… Continue reading motherfuckingwebsite.com Redesigned. My Other Poster Presented at #ICWE2014
This is a motherfucking website. And it’s not completely fucking perfect
(Disclaimer: motherfuckingwebsite.com was not made by me!) I recently stumbled upon motherfuckingwebsite.com, which is the most pragmatic and minimalistic approach to website creation I've seen so far (except for plain TXT files, of course). The first two lines read "This is a motherfucking website. And it's fucking perfect." The site has raised quite some attention… Continue reading This is a motherfucking website. And it’s not completely fucking perfect
2008 – Tales of Design & User Experience 