Homebrew Website Club Berlin #5 on 5 Apr 2017
The March 22 edition of the Berlin Homebrew Website Club was a rather private circle, with just three of us engaging in free-form discussions around tracking and privacy, WordPress and other CMSs, and the topic of enabling donations or micropayments on […]
Homebrew Website Club Berlin #4 on 22 Mar 2017
Welcome to the fourth edition of our Homebrew Website Club in Berlin! After the first three meetings were rather unstructured, around a range of interesting topics - see the summaries of meetups #2 and #3 by Sven - we are thinking to try a “What are you […]
How to get the most value out of remote user research (without breaking the bank)
wildbit.com
From my first-hand experience, this lightweight research process described by Rian Van Der Merwe is incredibly efficient. In the article it is summarized as chosing: The RITE testing method (Rapid Iterative Testing and Evaluation) The right remote usability […]
The inaccessible web: how we got into this mess
uxdesign.cc
Mischa Andrews lists five reasons how the web, an accessible medium by default, ended up in an inaccessible mess: We can (and do) learn to make websites without learning accessibility We’re not held accountable for inaccessible products Assumptions […]
Turning the Feb 2017 AWS outage into a case for "offline first" design
Allow me to begin my ponderings by picking up a point made by Karissa Bell on Mashable related to the major disruption of Amazon’s cloud services that took down a wide range of online services:
Amazon’s lengthy AWS outage Tuesday was […]
Homebrew Website Club Berlin #3 on 8 Mar 2017
Two times is a series, three times is a tradition? Welcome again all IndieWeb-minded Berliners for the third meetup of our Homebrew Website Club:
It is more important than ever to have your own place to publish on the web. Have a blog? Want a […]
privacytools.io
After PRISM Break, that I posted about last week, here is another valuable resource that aims to create a list of any tools related to personal privacy online:
privacytools.io is a socially motivated website that provides information for […]
Using the "Cognitive bias codex" for design concept evaluation
Cognitive bias - the tendency of the human brain to interpret information based on unrecognised irrational factors - is a phenomenon that has been fascinating me for well over a decade. There is no more efficient way to improve the quality of a design concept […]