Short notes, musings, and observations about design, technology, and people. Sometimes I share photos of places I visit.

2022

• 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
• Good books I read in 2021
  2022-01-02 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
• Good books I read in 2020
  2021-01-02 Personal

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
• Notes from the book Deep Work
  2020-02-16 Personal
• Living and learning
  2020-01-22 Personal
• Good books I read in 2019
  2020-01-06 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
• Good books I read in 2018
  2019-01-14 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
• Good books I read in 2017
  2018-01-22 Personal
• Year in review 2017
  2018-01-05 Personal

2017

• Red train in snow
  2017-12-18 Travel
• Write down everything
  2017-11-16 People
• 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
• Good books I read in 2016
  2017-02-26 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
• Good books I read in 2015
  2016-12-05 Personal
• 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
• A book about scarcity
  2015-01-06 People
• 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
• Recommended UX reading
  2013-10-19 Design
• 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
• Notes from Simple and Usable book
  2013-05-13 Design
• 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