Short notes, musings, and observations about design, technology, and people. Sometimes I share photos of places I visit. 2023 New channels: email, Mastodon, RSS 2023-03-20 Personal Do you need to test at the end of a design sprint? 2023-03-13 Design Interaction 23 2023-03-03 Events Layoffs and life lessons 2023-02-19 People Mass layoffs at Google 2023-01-21 Personal Motivated reasoning 2023-01-13 People Fireworks indicator 2023-01-01 Personal 2022 Impossible Bled 2022-12-28 Travel I’m failing at social media 2022-12-25 Personal H letters with flourishes 2022-11-24 Personal 22-second leadership lesson 2022-11-20 People I started publishing my book notes 2022-11-04 Personal Google Berlin 2022-10-16 Travel I refurbished my website, and hopefully, most people won’t notice 2022-09-30 Personal The fear of public speaking 2022-09-16 People Taking time off 2022-08-21 Personal The secret is in doing it 2022-08-17 People Ergonomics: sitting and standing when working on a computer 2022-08-04 People A quote on writing by Ernest Hemingway 2022-07-21 Personal From Hyde to Hugo 2022-07-08 Tech Teaching people how to cope with the lack of time at work 2022-07-07 People The eight Google anniversary 2022-05-03 Personal Vim and the Copernican principle 2022-03-04 Tech More historic events 2022-03-02 Personal 2021 Hitomezashi stitching 2021-12-22 Design Indra Nooyi memoir 2021-11-22 People LEGO Architecture Tokyo 2021-11-21 Personal The biggest improvement 2021-11-15 Personal The effects of remote work on collaboration 2021-10-30 People Strange about learning 2021-10-14 People Hidden conversations 2021-09-13 People I can’t write in books 2021-09-05 Personal We’re looking for a junior UX designer to join our YouTube Ads team in Zürich 2021-06-07 Design The first reaction 2021-04-16 People Conditions for expert intuition 2021-02-25 People Talks at Google: How Design Makes The World by Scott Berkun 2021-01-07 Events 2020 COVID-19 pandemic / part 2 2020-12-26 Personal Felsenegg winter wonderland 2020-12-11 Travel Planning and deconstructing a project 2020-12-04 People Reading on the web became hell 2020-11-28 Tech Writing and clarity 2020-11-07 Personal Klettersteig Sulzfluh 2020-09-14 Travel Successful and dysfunctional teams 2020-08-18 People Cope, survive, thrive 2020-03-29 Personal COVID-19 pandemic 2020-03-18 Personal Living and learning 2020-01-22 Personal 2019 Paper or digital books? 2019-10-30 Personal WebCamp Zagreb 2019 2019-10-11 Events Preparing a conference talk 2019-10-04 Personal Digital Labin 2019 2019-09-28 Events Foundational skills talk: definitions, online resources, and books 2019-09-27 People ZRH-LON flight 2019-09-09 Travel Braunwald 2019-07-22 Travel Digital Experience Meetup in Basel 2019-05-24 Events Google for Startups presents – the growing role of UX in enterprise software 2019-04-05 Events The fine line between fear and courage 2019-02-20 People Heidi anime 2019-01-26 Personal 2018 Gapminder and Dollar Street 2018-12-30 People Sunny autumn in Zürich 2018-11-12 Travel Wrinkles 2018-10-27 Personal Questions designers ask themselves 2018-10-11 Design Design sprints are like excavators 2018-10-01 Design Don’t fall in love with a design method 2018-09-27 Design Ireland road trip 2018-08-12 Travel Technology that can last a century 2018-07-18 Tech Selling 2018-07-11 People Skilled at working around the system 2018-06-16 People Drawing comics together 2018-05-24 Personal Learning machine learning 2018-05-07 Tech My thoughts on machine learning 2018-05-07 Tech Year in review 2017 2018-01-05 Personal 2017 Red train in snow 2017-12-18 Travel Natural stupidity 2017-10-24 People They need a story 2017-10-19 People Lisbon 2017-10-15 Travel How to create a team 2017-10-10 People The Library of Trinity College 2017-09-20 Travel Bias and discrimination in machine learning 2017-08-03 Tech Consistency 2017-07-26 People Design thinking in politics 2017-06-27 Design Human stories 2017-06-15 People What works, works 2017-05-21 Design Make Merlin code again 2017-05-11 Personal Edge vs. stress cases 2017-04-27 Design Inclusive design by Microsoft 2017-03-09 Design Sound like yourself 2017-03-02 Personal Interaction 17 2017-02-17 Events Virtual reality might be a thing 2017-02-08 Tech Feels like home 2017-01-25 People Love what you do (quotes) 2017-01-17 People Year in review 2016 2017-01-05 Personal 2016 What is fair, what is right? 2016-12-15 Tech Nobody will do that 2016-11-28 People Sunset in Los Angeles 2016-11-23 Travel Rethinking TODO 2016-11-03 Personal What can artificial intelligence and deep learning do? 2016-10-27 Tech The secret to success 2016-10-18 People Fancy equipment is not necessary 2016-09-24 People Git workshop 2016 2016-09-02 Events Stop using isometric mock-ups 2016-08-17 Design Brutal prioritization 2016-08-09 Personal What designers do 2016-07-13 Design Always guess 2016-06-30 People The telegraph at Montmartre 2016-06-14 Tech A phone is not important 2016-06-09 Personal Making a knife 2016-05-26 Design Parents in tech 2016-05-17 Personal Fire and motion 2016-05-15 People Your own media company 2016-05-03 Personal CV of Failures 2016-04-29 People Empathic vs. emotional 2016-04-27 People Writing for intrinsic reasons 2016-04-21 People Alternate reality 2016-04-20 Tech Qualities and strengths of an outsider 2016-04-15 Personal Doodling in school 2016-04-13 Design Two qualities of good leaders 2016-04-08 People Ran 2016-03-17 Design Ancient technology 2016-03-13 Tech Bottom right corner 2016-03-11 Design Better accessibility for diverse use-cases 2016-03-07 Design Seeing beyond what is easy to see 2016-02-24 People Don’t become an artist 2016-01-26 Design WebGL cube 2016-01-10 Tech Focus on days 2016-01-06 Design Year in review 2015 2016-01-03 Personal 2015 Charming Lucerne 2015-12-27 Travel Emerging from the fog 2015-12-24 Travel Smartwatch experiment 2015-11-21 Tech First calligraphy class 2015-11-06 Design Genchi genbutsu 2015-10-13 Design Writing skills in tech 2015-09-29 Tech Mount Pilatus 2015-08-23 Travel Irish summer 2015-08-01 Travel Nordic adventures 2015-07-19 Travel Debating the incoming bullet 2015-06-14 People Humor and meaningfulness 2015-05-31 People Castle Neuschwanstein 2015-05-27 Travel Your websites suck 2015-05-23 Tech MX15 2015-04-28 Events GNU Terry Pratchett 2015-04-13 Personal Sketching personas 2015-03-31 Design Take-aways from UX Munich 2015-03-25 Events Moto Munich 2015-03-22 Travel Salzburg 2015-03-08 Travel Follow-up on my blindness experiment 2015-03-01 People Technology and politics in the middle of an ocean 2015-02-24 Travel A comic on 190 Pages 2015-02-20 Design Maldives 2015-02-14 Travel Blind for a day 2015-01-29 People A tourist in Zagreb 2015-01-15 Travel Year in review 2014 2015-01-02 Personal 2014 Alan Ford is lost in translation 2014-12-16 Travel Modern Berlin 2014-12-03 Travel Getting lost 2014-11-30 Travel Vemödalen 2014-11-26 People Storytelling in design and engineering 2014-11-23 People Thoughts on voice interfaces 2014-10-29 Tech Git alias 2014-10-07 Tech My personal ups and downs at WebCamp Zagreb 2014 2014-10-05 Events Out of sight, out of mind 2014-09-29 Design The Switch 2014-09-24 Personal A cabin in the woods 2014-09-20 Travel Educational taxi ride 2014-09-15 Travel My dumb analog watch 2014-09-11 Tech Mallorca 2014-09-06 Travel Love what you do 2014-09-02 People Things I do more 2014-08-13 People To design is to communicate 2014-07-25 Design Foreign languages 2014-07-09 Travel Cold San Francisco 2014-06-29 Travel WIAD Zagreb 2014 2014-06-18 Events Remove to improve 2014-06-06 Design Push it to the limit 2014-06-03 People Presenting hand drawn sketches 2014-04-24 Design Google Day 1 2014-04-07 Personal Over the Alps 2014-04-01 Travel Self-doubt in art 2014-03-25 Design Sunny Osijek 2014-03-18 Travel Foundation 2014-03-15 Design Better retweet on Twitter for Android 2014-02-25 Design Redesigning Skype for Android Chat 2014-02-18 Design User experience field diversity 2014-02-11 Design Joining Google and YouTube 2014-01-20 Personal Year in review 2013 2014-01-10 Personal 2013 Advanced Technology Days 2013 2013-12-04 Events The most important design phase 2013-11-27 Design WebCamp Zagreb 2013 Talk 2013-11-12 Events Git tips and tricks 2013-11-04 Tech WebCamp Zagreb 2013 2013-10-27 Events The power of a plain old bookshelf 2013-10-01 People Sketching tools 2013-08-27 Design How to start a change in people 2013-08-19 People Norwegian summer 2013-08-09 Travel Specialization 2013-07-31 People New York 2013-07-20 Travel Giving back 2013-07-10 Personal Focus.vim plugin 2013-06-18 Tech Sketch 365 Gallery – Interactions 2013-06-05 Design Sketch 365 Gallery – Smartphones 2013-06-04 Design Sketch 365 Gallery – Hands 2013-05-29 Design Sketch 365 Gallery – More Objects 2013-05-24 Design Sketch 365 Gallery – Objects 2013-05-21 Design Sketch 365 – A Designer’s Quest 2013-05-20 Design Failure of leadership 2013-05-16 People Windays - UX and Design 2013-05-06 Design Wireframes or not 2013-04-21 Design UX London 2013 2013-04-19 Events Old London 2013-04-13 Travel UX on App Start Contest 2013-03-23 Events Manly beach - sea, sun & surf 2013-03-12 Travel Great Barrier Reef Experience 2013-03-11 Travel Sydney Git Workshop 2013-03-07 Events Sunrise in Sydney 2013-03-06 Travel A view from Sydney Tower Eye 2013-03-04 Travel Sydney at night 2013-03-01 Travel Three days to Sydney, part two 2013-02-28 Travel Three days to Sydney, part one 2013-02-26 Travel Kristiansand, Norway 2013-01-17 Travel Where the danger lies? 2013-01-04 People 2012 WebCamp Zagreb 2012 2012-12-27 Events Quality vs. quantity 2012-12-20 Design Are you an expert? 2012-12-06 People Ego, designers, and programmers 2012-11-25 People Hello world 2012-11-11 Personal